Template documentationUse this template in the body of an article as a request for other editors to clarify text that is difficult to understand.
Where the problem is not with the wording, but the sourcing, see {{specify}}. For dealing with dubious information, please use {{fact}}, {{verify source}}, {{dubious}}, or {{disputed-inline}}, which ever is most suitable for the context. See also Wikipedia:Citing sources#Text that is, or is likely to be, disputed.
To find all pages that use this template, see Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification.
This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.
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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.{{clarifyme}}The name {{clarifyme}} may make more sense if you visualize it reading "Please clarify the preceding text."
The above text will cause the tag [clarification needed] to appear inline.
The text "clarify" will be linked to Wikipedia:Please clarify, which explains to readers what the tag means.
Adding this template to an article will place the article into the category "Wikipedia articles needing clarification". To find all such articles, see Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification.
This template allows an optional date parameter that records when the tag was added. One can specify the date manually. For example, to date the tag in the current month, enter {{clarifyme|date=December 2008}}. Even more simply, one can simply use {{clarifyme|{{subst:DATE}}}} to get the same result.
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: {{clarifyme|{{subst:DATE}}|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 clarifyme-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.
One can specify additional text to appear before and or after the "clarify" tag. For example
{{clarifyme|pre-text=?}}will cause a question mark to appear before "clarify" like this[? clarification needed], and
{{clarifyme|post-text=(complicated jargon)}}will cause text to appear after "clarify" like this[clarification needed (complicated jargon)] .
The alternative names {{huh}}, {{what}} and {{clarify}} are all redirects to this template.