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This template displays the tag above and adds articles to Category:Current events 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.
- As an advisory to editors, the template may optionally be used in those extraordinary occasions that many editors (perhaps a hundred or more) edit an article on the same day, for example, in the case of natural disasters or other breaking news.
- It is not intended to be used to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic; if it were, hundreds of thousands of articles would have this template, with no informational consequence.
- 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 "current event"
- 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}}
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{{current|section|date=November 2024}}
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{{current||current election|date=November 2024}}
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Template data
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.
TemplateData for Current
This template generates a tag to indicate that the article documents a current event.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 "current event"
| String | suggested |
| Date | date | The month and year that the article is identified as current.
| Date | required |
See also
- Wikipedia:Current event templates
- {{Speculation}}
- {{In use}}
- {{Recentism}}
- {{Update}}