This is a documentation subpage for Template:Clarify. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original Template page.

Caution:

Avoid using wikilinks and double quotation marks ("). These can (and, with |reason=, will) corrupt the template's output.

Use this template in the body of a page as a request for other editors to clarify text that is difficult to understand. For dealing with dubious information, please use one of the following: {{Citation needed }} or {{Dubious }}.

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=July 2025}} → This sentence needs clarification.^{[clarification needed]}

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

Parameters

Abbreviated parameter sets

{{clarify|date=July 2025 |reason= }}

{{clarify|date=July 2025 |reason= |text= }}

Full parameter set

{{clarify|date=July 2025 |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=July 2025}}. This technique also works if other parametersTemplate:Snd |reason= |pre-text= |post-text=Template: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 page'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 page.

|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:^{[remove or clarification needed]}

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

   will cause "(complicated jargon)" to appear after "clarify" like this:^{[clarification needed (complicated jargon)]}

3. {{clarify|post-text=(see [[Talk:Example#Clarification needed|talk]])}}

   can be used to link to a discussion on the page's talk page; this example produces:^{[clarification needed (see talk)]}

TemplateData

Categorization

Adding this template to a page will automatically place the page into Category:Pages needing clarification, or a dated subcategory thereof.