Template:Essay

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Shows the following notice:

This is an essay.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more of the Valve Developer Community's contributors.
This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of the Valve Developer Community's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.
Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

Optionally, you can specify authors using |author=<authors here> to get this result:

This is an essay.
It contains the advice or opinions of the following author(s):
I wrote this!; So did I!
This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of the Valve Developer Community's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.
Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Essay|author=[[User:Equalizer5118|I wrote this!]]; So did I!}}

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