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|text      = <div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;">'''This is an [[:category:Essays|essay]] by Jehu.'''<br /><div style="font-size: 90%;">It contains personal opinions or rhetoric written by one or more Leftypedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it a policy or guideline written by Leftypedia.
|text      = <div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;">'''This is an [[:category:Essays|essay]] by Jehu.'''<br /><div style="font-size: 90%;">It contains personal opinions or rhetoric written by one or more Leftypedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it a policy or guideline written by Leftypedia.
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Be aware that the posting of external works under Essay is a gray area that has yet to be defined, and may result in your upload being removed.


Future additions: options for multiple contributors, i.e. <code>author2</code>,<code>author3</code> et cetera.
Future additions: options for multiple contributors, i.e. <code>author2</code>,<code>author3</code> et cetera.

Revision as of 22:18, 17 August 2023

Description

To be placed at head of Essay: namespace pages.

How to use

Place at the head of an Essay when you create or make an edit to an essay that is your original work, and it will automatically credit you, like so:

{{essay}}

yields:

If you are not the author of this piece, you can credit the author with the author parameter. Inputting:

{{essay|author=Discomrade}}

yields:

If you are citing an author who is Anonymous or is not an original poster here, you need to avoid the automatic link to that person's (nonexistent) Leftypedia userpage by inputting user=no, as such:

{{essay|author=Jehu|user=no}}

Be aware that the posting of external works under Essay is a gray area that has yet to be defined, and may result in your upload being removed.

Future additions: options for multiple contributors, i.e. author2,author3 et cetera.

Parameters

author The author of the Essay. If this
user If this value is set to no, then the author parameter will appear with no hyperlink to a User page on Leftypedia. If any other value is inputted, including leaving the parameter blank, then the User hyperlink will appear normally.