Template:Essay-like/doc

When to use
Use this tag to identify personal essays. Personal essays describe the author's own 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 comments on the subject. Use it when the article does not necessarily representing a blatant opinion or opinion piece, but is still overly judgemental 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 general templates like Tone or Copyedit.

How to use
Place this:

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 at the top of the section.


 * Options
 * To replace the text "a personal reflection or essay", you may use or
 * 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.
 * This template adds articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing