Wikipedia talk:The value of essays

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Proposal

I see this is tagged as a proposal for elevation in status. This page is helpful and informative. I would probably support it becoming a guideline, or at least a {{supplement}} to WP:ESSAY. Someone would have to {{rfctag}} it first though. -- œ ^™ 19:06, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's a nice page, but it can't be meaningfully called a rules page, so it won't ever get "promoted" into one. It's helpful and informative regardless of what label appears at the top. It's not even necessary to label it as a supplement -- it achieves everything it needs to by dint of its content.--Father Goose (talk) 08:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm thinking {{infopage}} would be better. -- œ ^™ 09:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No objection. I've taken the liberty of implementing your suggestion.--Father Goose (talk) 04:09, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editing essays

I have a question related to editing essays. Is there anywhere else than here where this is discussed, or is mentioned as part of any policy or guideline? Please ping me. -- {{u|BullRangifer}} {Talk} 05:26, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are essay's even valuable?

That's the real question here. So many superfluous, inane essay's that one essay can actually cancel out another essay. My only guess is that essay's exist to confuse and muddy the truth which is that Wikipedia is not run democratically. --MurderByDeletionism^"bang!" 03:39, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusionist essays are useful. So are essays about the sort of trolling tactics that some deletionists use to derail discussions (such as off-topic comments and especially those of the WP:AVOIDYOU variety, telling other people to shut up in a bid to prevent them expressing opinions or advancing arguments the deletionists don't want to hear, and pretending to be incapable of using Google to find sources). We can infer these essays are useful from the fact that some deletionists want to censor them. Some essays, however, such as deletionist essays, are a clear detriment to the project, not because they are essays but because they are not compatible with the aims of the project. James500 (talk) 03:15, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]