Template:essay

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline; it merely reflects the opinions of some of its author(s). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

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The following documentation is located at Template:essay/doc. ^[edit]

Note: Please move the documentation subpage to Template:essay/documentation.

This template adds the page to Category:Wiktionary essays, depending on namespace. Put this atop any essay. If there is, and is to be, only one author, add some value to the parameter sg; e.g., sg=1.

It allows several positional parameters, which are the shortcuts (without brackets) to the page.

Please do not subst this template.

• {{essay}} becomes:

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline; it merely reflects the opinions of some of its author(s). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

• {{essay|WT:SHORT|WT:ANOTHERLINK}} becomes:

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline; it merely reflects the opinions of some of its author(s). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

• {{essay|WT:SHORT|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}} becomes:

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline; it merely reflects the opinions of some of its author(s). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

• {{essay|WT:CUT|sg=a}} becomes:

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline; it merely reflects the opinion of its author. Please discuss it on the talk page.