Template:Essay

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Usage

Further information: SF:Essays

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

Please do not subst this template.

• {{essay|SF:SHORTCUT1}} becomes:

Parameters

This template has an |interprets= Template:Aka |pages= parameter. Replaces "This page is an essay" with "This page is an essay on [whatever you put in the parameter]":

• |interprets=the [[Starfleet Logistics:No original research]] policy
• |interprets=the [[Starfleet Logistics:Manual of Style]] guideline
• |interprets=the [[Starfleet Logistics:No original research]] and [[Starfleet Logistics:Neutral point of view]] policies
• |interprets=the [[Starfleet Logistics:Verifiability]] policy and [[Starfleet Logistics:Identifying 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:Starfleet Logistics essays or (in userspace) Category:User essays. It can be done with or without "Category:"

• |cat=Starfleet Logistics essays on consensus
• |category=Category:Starfleet Logistics 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:Starfleet Logistics essays in this way.

Display

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

Variant templates

To place essays in appropriate sub-categories by subject, you can use:

• {{Behavioral essay}}

• {{Civility essay}}

• {{Deletion essay}}

• {{Notability essay}}

• {{Orphaned essay}}

• {{Essay in development}}

The following templates are available to WikiProjects for clarifying the distinction between WikiProject guidance and other essays and information pages:

• {{WikiProject content advice}}

• {{Wikiproject notability essay}}

• {{WikiProject style advice}}

See also

• {{Information page}} – the banner template for pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like SF:GOV.
• {{Starfleet Logistics 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 SF:BRD.
• {{Essay-like}} – designed for the main namespace, not "Starfleet Logistics:" namespace; use if an article reads like an essay.
• Template messages/Starfleet Logistics namespace, for more examples of related templates.

External links

• Template:Essay at Wikipedia, the free Terran-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit.