Template talk:Explain

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Bugs with parsing quotes in reason

Using quotation marks (U+0022 quotation mark) pronounces a HTML title attribute of "What (first word of the reason with suspiciously added quotation mark at beginning of the line): {{Elucidate|reason=What is the difference between "default" and "custom" Web sites?|date=October 2016}}.

Using HTML quote element (<q>quote</q>) results in the span element with title attribute being spilled and without quotes: [<span title="What is the difference between default and custom Web sites? (October 2016)">further explanation needed] {{Elucidate|reason=What is the difference between <q>default</q> and <q>custom<q> Web sites?|date=October 2016}}.

Special:Diff/746091758 is related. 80.221.159.67 (talk) 06:13, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 February 2017

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) SkyWarrior 03:29, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Elucidate → Template:Explain – Simpler language in title. Ppp ery 22:27, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Yes, please. Note that {{further explanation needed}} already redirects here. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 03:06, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Added a variant of this template with text wrap

h1	h2
test1^{[further explanation needed]}	test2^{[further explanation needed]}

Because "[further explanation needed]" without text wrap makes table columns a bit unwieldy.

--Pizzahut2 (talk) 20:56, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category Wikipedia articles needing clarification,

The man states that pages with this {{Explain}} are added to Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification.

But looking at Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification page, there is a list of template there. And Explain is not among them. --Mezze stagioni (talk) 17:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Make inline display more concise

Currently, the inline template displays "Further explanation needed", which seems very lengthy. Can somebody change what it displays so that it is shorter? JsfasdF252 (talk) 23:32, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What if too terse?

What template is appropriate for text that is at the correct level but is too terse and omits relevant information. {{clarify}}? {{elucidate}}? {{explain}}? Other? --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 12:37, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]