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.
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}}
This article documents a current event.
Details may change rapidly as the event progresses, and the last updates to this page may not reflect the most current information.
{{current|section|date=December 2024}}
This article documents a current event.
Details may change rapidly as the event progresses, and the last updates to this page may not reflect the most current information.
{{current||current election|date=December 2024}}
This article documents a current event.
Details may change rapidly as the event progresses, and the last updates to this page may not reflect the most current information.
Template data
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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>
