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This template displays the message above and adds the article to Category:Current events; a bot then adds the date parameter to move it into one of the dated subcategories of Category:Current events.
Guidelines
Every article on Wikipedia has a general disclaimer that the article contents may not be accurate.
As an advisory to editors, the template may optionally be used on 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.
This and closely related templates are generally expected to appear on an article for less than a day, sometimes longer.
Named parameter "date" categorizes the page into a monthly sub-category of Category:Current events for ease of navigation and maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted.
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.
TemplateData for Current
<templatedata>
{
"description": "Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article documents a current event, that information may change rapidly as the event progresses and that initial news reports may be unreliable.",
"format": "inline",
"params": {
"date": {
"label": "Month and year",
"description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.",
"type": "line",
"autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
"example": "January 2013",
"suggested": true
},
"2": {
"label": "Type of event",
"description": "Text to replace \"current event\" in the template",
"type": "string",
"example": "current aviation incident",
"suggested": true
},
"1": {
"label": "Affected area",
"description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"",
"type": "string",
"autovalue": "section",
"example": "section"
}
},
"paramOrder": [
"date",
"2",
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