Template:Current

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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.
• If you would like an article on a significant current event to be noticed, please see Wikipedia:How the Current events page works and 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 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.

Examples

Code	Result
{{current}}
{{current|section|date=November 2025}}
{{current||current election|date=November 2025}}

TemplateData

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

Use this cleanup 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.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Line	suggested
Type of event	2	Text to replace "current event" in the template Example current aviation incident	String	suggested
Affected area	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value section	String	optional

Redirects

• {{Current section}}

See also

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

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