Wikisource:Essays

Essays are opinions or advice given by Wikisource users. They are neither policies nor guidelines and have no official weight. Anyone can create an essay and there is no need for oversight or community approval. Essays are intended to be useful but optional documents and there is no obligation to follow the advice they contain.

There are two type of essay:
 * 1) Wikisource essays are general-interest essays hosted in the Wikisource namespace.  Any user may edit, maintain or modified these essays and they are encouraged to do so.
 * 2) User essays are specific or minority-interest essays, personal opinions or essays that directly contradict Wikisource consensus; they are hosted in the User namespace author as subpages of the author's own user page.  They should not be edited without permission of the author.

All essays should be marked as such by placing the essay template at the top of the page.