Template:Essay-like/doc

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When to use

Use this tag to identify personal essays. Personal essays describe the author's own emotional feelings about a topic. Although Wikipedia is supposed to compile human knowledge, it is not a vehicle to publish users' personal opinions.

This template should be used when the article contains the editor's own personal, emotional comments on the subject. Use it when the article does not necessarily represent a blatant opinion or opinion piece, but is still overly judgementalist in tone.

When not to use

Do not use this template to tag fact-oriented pages that sound like they might have been written as research papers for school (called "essays" in some parts of the world). Instead, if those pages need a different writing style or tone, use {{Research paper}}, or general templates like {{Tone}} or {{Copy edit}}.

If the article is biased, but without expressing the editor's emotions or value-based judgments, use tags like {{unbalanced}} or {{POV}}.

How to use

Place this:

{{Essay-like|date=November 2024}}

at the top of the article to alert editors to the inappropriate presence of editors' personal reflections throughout the article.

Sections

To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place {{Essay-like|section}} at the top of the section.

Options

To replace the text "a personal reflection or essay", you may use {{Essay-like|article or section|yourtext}} or {{Essay-like|2=yourtext}}
Articles tagged without the optional date parameter will be given the parameter by a bot.
Add a new item to the talk page explaining the problem so editors will know what to address, and when to remove this tag.

Notes

This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and to Category:All articles with style issues.
This template is a self-reference.
Please do not subst: this template.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Essay-like

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   "params": {
       "1": {
           "label": "Type (typically section)",
           "description": "This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word \"article\" with another word, usually the word \"section\"",
           "type": "string",
           "default": "article"
       },
       "2": {
           "label": "Replaced text",
           "description": "To replace the template text \"a personal reflection or opinion essay\" with a custom description",
           "type": "content",
           "autovalue": ""
       },
       "date": {
           "description": "Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'",
           "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
           "suggested": true,
           "label": "Month and year",
           "type": "string"
       }
   },
   "description": "Use this cleanup template to identify personal essays",
   "format": "inline"

} </templatedata>