Template:Current
 | This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (December 2025) |
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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
- 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
- Check main (article) namespace links
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
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{{current}}
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{{current|section|date=December 2025}}
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{{current||current election|date=December 2025}}
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TemplateData
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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.
| 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.
| Line | suggested |
| Type of event | 2 | Text to replace "current event" in the template
| String | suggested |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| String | optional |
Redirects
- {{Current section}}
See also
- Wikipedia:Current event templates
- {{Currentdate}}
- {{Speculation}}
- {{In use}}
- {{Recentism}}
- {{Update}}