Template:Current/doc

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It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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Module:Unsubst (sandbox)

This template displays the message above and adds the article to Category:Current events. The template is automatically removed by Yapperbot once an article has not been edited for five hours.

It may be used in tandem with {{Current event editnotice}} where applicable.

Usage

{{current}}
{{current|section|date=August 2026}}
{{current||current election|date=August 2026}}

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.

Check main (article) namespace links

Parameters

The template takes two positional (unnamed) and three named parameters; all are optional:

|1= – overrides the word article
|2= – overrides the words current event
|date= – use month name and year, e.g., |date=August 2026.

Details

Date:

Use month name and year only; for example: |date=August 2026. If omitted, this will be added by a bot. Categorizes the page into a monthly sub-category of Category:Current events for ease of navigation and maintenance.

Examples

1. {{current}}

2. {{current|section|date=August 2026}}

3. {{current||current election}}

4. {{current||tropical storm|date=August 2026}}

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 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