Teamplaid:Clarify/documentation

Not to be confused with Template:Unclear.

Use this template in the body of an article as a request for other editors to clarify text that is difficult to understand. When the problem is not with the wording, but the sourcing, one may use {{Specify}} instead. For dealing with dubious information, please use one of the following: {{Citation needed}}, {{Verify source}}, {{Dubious}} or {{Disputed-inline}}. This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

Ùsaid - Usage

This is an inline template which should be placed immediately after the material in question, as with a footnote. For example:

This sentence needs clarification.{{Clarify|date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024}} → This sentence needs clarification.

The wikilink on "clarification needed" is set to Wikipedia:Please clarify.

Abbreviated parameter sets

{{Clarify |date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024 |reason= }}

{{Clarify |date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024 |reason= |text= }}

Full parameter set

{{Clarify |date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024 |reason= |text= |pre-text= |post-text= }}

Parameter descriptions

|date=

This template allows an optional date parameter that records when the tag was added. If this template is added without the date parameter, the date parameter will be added soon after by a bot. Alternatively, you may add the date automatically (without requiring bot intervention) by substituting the template. That is: {{subst:clarify}} is equivalent to {{Clarify|date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024}}. This technique also works if other parametersTeamplaid:Snd |reason= |pre-text= |post-text=Teamplaid:Snd are given.

|reason=

Because it may not be immediately apparent to other editors what about the tagged passage is in need of clarification, it is generally helpful to add a brief reason for the tag: {{Clarify|reason=What the problem is}} (this is preferable to using an HTML <!-- comment --> after the tag, as it is tidier to keep all of the {{Clarify}}-related code inside the template). If the explanation would be lengthy, use the article's talk page.

As well as being visible in the source code for editors' benefit, the reason parameter is, if provided, displayed when the mouse is hovered over the "clarification needed" link in the article.

|text=

The particular text needing clarification may be highlighted by wrapping this template around it:

As an example:

Text preceding the template, {{Clarify|text=unclear text,|date=dhen Dùbhlachd 2024}} text following the template.

produces:

Text preceding the template, unclear text, text following the template.

|pre-text=

|post-text=

One can specify additional text to appear before and/or after the "clarify" tag using the two parameters listed above.

Examples follow:

1. {{Clarify|pre-text=remove or}}

   will cause the text "remove or" to appear before "clarify" like this:

2. {{Clarify|post-text=(complicated jargon)}}

   will cause "(complicated jargon)" to appear after "clarify" like this:

3. {{Clarify|post-text=(see {{enUici|Talk:Example#Clarification needed|talk}})}}

   can be used to link to a discussion on the article's talk page; this example produces:

Teamplaid-dàta - TemplateData

This is the WP:TemplateData documentation for this template used by WP:VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Clarify

Use this inline template as a request for other editors to clarify text that is difficult to understand. Place immediately after the material in question.

Paramadairean na teamplaide[Stiùirich an TemplateData]

Paramadair		Tuairisgeul	Seòrsa	Staid
Reason	reason	A brief reason for the tag. Avoid using wikilinks; these will corrupt the template's output.	Sreang	molta
Text	text	Text fragment containing concerns the tag is supposed to address.	Sreang	roghainneil
Date	date	The date the tag was added (this will be added automatically soon by a bot if not added manually). Luach fèin-obrachail {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Sreang	molta
Pre-text	pre-text	Any string to be added before the "Clarify" tag, such as "?" Luach fèin-obrachail	Sreang	roghainneil
Post-text	post-text	Any string to be added after the "Clarify" tag, such as "complicated jargon".	Sreang	roghainneil

Catagarachadh - Categorization

Adding this template to an article will automatically place the article into Roinn-seòrsa:Wikipedia articles needing clarification, or a dated subcategory thereof.

Ath-stiùireadhan - Redirects

• {{Clarification needed}}
• {{Clarify me}}
• {{Confusing-inline}}
• {{Confusing-short}}
• {{Define?}}
• {{How?}}
• {{Huh}}
• {{What?}}
• {{What}}

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Faic cuideachd - Also see

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Related inline templates

• {{Clarify span}}
• {{Ambiguous}}
• {{Definition}}
• {{Elucidate}}
• {{Non sequitur}}
• {{Vague}}
• {{Which one}}

Message-box templates

• {{Confusing}}
• {{Confusing section}}

Related pages

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Explain jargon
• Wikipedia:Please clarify