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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=May 2024}}

{{current||current election|date=May 2024}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

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
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}}