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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 judgmental in tone.
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}}.
Place this:
{{Essay-like|date=August 2024}}
at the top of the article to alert editors to the inappropriate presence of editors' personal reflections throughout the article.
{{Essay-like|section}}
at the top of the section.{{Essay-like|article or section|yourtext}}
or {{Essay-like|2=yourtext}}
TemplateData for Essay-like
Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
Custom text | 2 | Text to replace "a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay" in the template
| String | optional |
Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| Line | optional |
Make template small | small | Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.
| Line | optional |