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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.


Usage

This is an in-line template, place the template immediately after the material in question, as one would do with a footnote. For example:

This sentence needs clarification.{{Clarify|date=March 2024}}

The above text will cause the tag [clarification needed] to appear inline. The tag links to Wikipedia:Please clarify for further information.

Categorisation

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

Parameters

|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.

|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: {{subst:Clarify|reason=what the problem is}} (this is preferable to using an HTML <!-- comment --> after the tag, as it is more tidy to keep all of the {{Clarify}}-related code inside the template). The reason parameter is not displayed or otherwise acted upon by the template; it is simply present in the source code for editors' benefit. If the explanation would be lengthy, use the article's talk page.

Other

One can specify additional text to appear before and or after the "clarify" tag. For example

{{Clarify|pre-text=?}}

will cause a question mark to appear before "clarify" like this[clarification needed], and

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

will cause text to appear after "clarify" like this[clarification needed]. You can use this feature to link to a discussion on the article's talk page:

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

Template and documentation licensing

Wikipedia documentation, which covers both text and freely-licensed images, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, both free-use licenses. This documentation which originates from Wikipedia is thus released under a free license. For further information, see the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of use.

The contents of this template are modified from its original state from Wikipedia. The original template is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, both free-use licenses. Usage on Touhou Wiki is permitted where applicable under international law.