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Reverted edits by 2001:F40:910:83C:999E:81A6:3425:E398 (talk) to last version by Discospinster

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==When to use==
Use this tag to identify '''personal essays'''. Personal essays describe the author's own emotional [[feeling]]s about a topic. Although Wikipedia is supposed to compile human knowledge, it is [[WP:What Wikipedia is not#PUBLISHER|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 [[wikt:judgementalist|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 {{tl|Research paper}}, or general templates like {{tl|Tone}} or {{tl|Copy edit}}.

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

===How to use===
Place this:

<code>{{Template link with parameters|Essay-like|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}</code>

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 {{tlx|Essay-like|section}} at the top of the section.

;Options
*To replace the text "a personal reflection or essay", you may use {{tlx|Essay-like|article or section|yourtext}} or {{tlx|Essay-like|2=yourtext}}
*Articles tagged without the optional date parameter will be given the parameter by a [[WP:Bots|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 [[WP:Templates|template]] is a [[WP:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid|self-reference]].
*Please do not [[WP:Substitution|subst:]] this template.

===See also===

* [[Template:Editorializing]] – inline version of this template, for flagging particular statements
* [[Template:Essay]] – identifies internal [[Wikipedia:Essays]]
* [[Wikipedia:Cleanup process]]
* [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup]]
* [[Template:Manual]]

==TemplateData==
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<templatedata>
{
"description": "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.",
"format": "inline",
"params": {
"date": {
"label": "Month and year",
"description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.",
"type": "line",
"autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
"example": "January 2013",
"suggested": true
},
"2": {
"label": "Custom text",
"description": "Text to replace \"a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay\" in the template",
"type": "string",
"example": "a forum post"
},
"1": {
"label": "Affected area",
"description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"",
"type": "line",
"autovalue": "section",
"example": "section"
},
"small": {
"label": "Make template small",
"description": "Enter \"left\" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.",
"type": "line",
"autovalue": "left",
"example": "left"
}
},
"paramOrder": [
"date",
"2",
"1",
"small"
]
}
</templatedata>

<includeonly>{{sandbox other||

[[Category:Cleanup templates]]
[[Category:Wikipedia section templates]]
}}</includeonly>

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