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This template adds the page to Category:Wikipedia essays or to Category:User essays, depending on namespace.

Please do not subst this template.

• {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2}} becomes:

This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion.

Shortcut: WP:SHORTCUT1

• {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}} becomes:

This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors on the Consensus and Ignore all rules policies. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion.

Shortcuts: WP:SHORTCUT1 WP:SHORTCUT2

See also

• Template messages/Wikipedia namespace, for examples of related header templates
• {{supplement}}, to tag a well-established essay that adds something to a policy or guideline, especially to make up for a deficiency
• {{essay-like}} designed for main namespace not Wikipedia: namespace; use if an article reads like an essay