మూస:Essay
Usage
This template adds the page to Category:Wikipedia essays or to Category:User essays, depending on namespace.
Please do not subst this template.
If you place this template on a mainspace article, it will redirect to Template:Essay-like anyway.
{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1}becomes:
Parameters
This template has an |interprets= a.k.a. |pages= parameter. Replaces "This page is an essay" with "This page is an essay on [whatever you put in the parameter]":
|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:No original research]] policy|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] guideline|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:No original research]] and [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] policies|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] policy and [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources]] guideline
You can have up to 5 shortcuts displayed. The shortcut parameters can also be named as |shortcut= or |shortcut1=, |shortcut2= ... |shortcut5=.
You can also use |cat= or |category= to specify a more specific category than the default Category:Wikipedia essays or (in userspace) Category:User essays. It can be done with or without "Category:"
|cat=Wikipedia essays on consensus|category=Category:Wikipedia essays on consensus|category=User essays on style|cat=Category:User essays on style
Userspace essays should remain categorized in Category:User essays or one of its subcategories with this template.
Essays are sorted by their page name, or in userspace by subpage name.
If you want to use a different category sort, you can specify an entire category link with a sort key:
|cat=[[Category:User essays on style|Comprise, Use of]]
Additional categories (and sort keys) are added at the bottom of the essay page, as at any other page. User essays can be additionally categorized in topical subcategories of Category:Wikipedia essays in this way.
Display
{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}becomes:
Variant templates
To place essays in appropriate sub-categories by subject, you can use:
The following templates are available to WikiProjects for clarifying the distinction between WikiProject guidance and other essays and information pages:
See also
- Alternatives
{Information page}– the banner template for pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV.{Wikipedia how-to}– the banner template for pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.{Supplement|interprets=}– to tag a well-established page that adds something to a policy or guideline, to make up for a deficiency, and when it is referenced in the guideline or policy like WP:BRD.
- Template index/Wikipedia namespace – for more examples of related templates.
- Article notice
{Essay-like}– designed for the main namespace, not "Wikipedia:" namespace; use if an article reads like an essay.
- Talk pages
{WikiProject Essays}– for talk pages of essays.
- Data
- Wikipedia:list of essays sorted by score