Template:Current/doc

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

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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

Code	Result
{{current}}
{{current|section|date=November 2024}}
{{current||current election|date=November 2024}}

Template data

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

TemplateData for Current

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Type (typically section)", "description": "Something to replace \"article\" in the template, typically \"section\"", "type": "string", "default": "article" }, "2": { "label": "Type", "description": "Allows modification of the current link instead of displaying \"Current Event\"", "example": "Current Aviation Incident", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "date": { "label": "Date", "description": "The month and year that the article is identified as current.", "example": "May 2015", "type": "date", "required": true } }, "description": "This template generates a tag to indicate that the article documents a current event." } </templatedata>

See also

• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• {{Crystal}}
• {{In use}}
• {{Recentism}}
• {{Update}}