Template:Current election
 | This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses, until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
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This template displays the tag above and adds articles to Category:Current elections or one of its dated subcategories.
Guidelines
- Note that every article on Wikipedia has a General disclaimer indicating that the article contents may not be accurate.
- Generally it is expected that this template and its closely related templates will appear on an article for less than a day; occasionally longer.
- If you desire that an article be noticed as a topic about or related to a significant current event, see Wikipedia:How the Current events page works, and also Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- Check main (article) namespace links
Usage
The template takes three parameters:
- Parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
- Parameter 2 overrides the words "a current election"
- Parameter 3 overrides the word "election"
- Named parameter "date" categorizes into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted.
Examples
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{{current election}}
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{{current election|section|date=November 2024}}
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{{current election| |a recent election|date=November 2024}}
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{{current election| | |referendum|date=November 2024}}
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Template data
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TemplateData for Current election
This template generates a tag to indicate that the article documents a current event.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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| Type (typically section) | 1 | Something to replace "article" in the template, typically "section"
| String | optional |
| Type | 2 | Allows modification of the current link instead of displaying "a current election"
| String | optional |
| Election type | 3 | Overrides the word "election"
| String | optional |
| Date | date | The month and year that the article is identified as current.
| Date | required |
See also
| The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Current election/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |