Template:Current

This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

Template documentation

This template displays the tag above and adds articles to category:Current events or one of its dated subcategories.

Guidelines

This template was created for those occasions that many editors (perhaps a hundred or more) edit an article on the same day, as an advisory to editors.
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.
It is expected, when used properly, that this template and its closely related templates will appear on an article for perhaps a day or two, occasionally several days.
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.

The template takes three optional parameters

Default parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
Default parameter 2 overrides the word "event"
Named parameter "date" categorises into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a WP:BOT if omitted. (A value of a year alone is used for year long events or seasons)}

Code Result

{{current}}

This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

{{current|date=June 2008}}

This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

{{current|section|date=June 2008}}

This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

{{current||election|date=June 2008}}

This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

{{current|image|hurricane|date=June 2008}}

This image documents a current hurricane. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.