Template:Ambiguous

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Usage

{{Ambiguous|date=December 2025}}

This is an inline maintenance template for ambiguous statements that need attention in Wikipedia articles. It is not to be used in Wikipedia policy pages (was previously deleted when a similarly named template was used for that purpose).

Use of this template will put the article in the Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification category, or a monthly subcategory thereof.

Template Data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Ambiguous in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Ambiguous

<templatedata> { "params": { "reason": { "description": "reason the tag is marked as ambiguous", "type": "line" }, "date": { "label": "Month and year", "type": "date", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "suggested": true } }, "description": "Inline cleanup tag marking ambiguous phrasing" } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Definition}} – for ambiguous words.
• {{Vague}} for specific words or statements that are vague.
• {{Clarify}} for other text that is difficult to understand.
• {{Disambiguation needed}} to request the improvement of a link to a disambiguation page.

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