Template:Essay/doc

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.


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Parameters
This template has an interprets parameter. Replaces "This page is an essay" with "This page is an essay on [whatever you put in the parameter]": You can also use to produce better-looking links to page sections, e.g.: the policy, which renders as "the  policy".
 * the No original research policy
 * the Manual of Style guideline
 * the No original research and Neutral point of view policies
 * the Verifiability policy and Reliable sources guideline
 * Wikipedia:Reliable sources – this simpler syntax will automatically link to the page if it exists.

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:" Userspace essays should remain categorized in Category:User essays or one of its subcategories with this template.
 * Wikipedia essays on consensus
 * Category:Wikipedia essays on consensus
 * User essays on style‎
 * Category:User essays on style‎

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:

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

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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: