Template:Current/doc

This template displays the tag above and adds articles to category:Current events or one of its dated subcategories.

Guidelines
Do not subst.
 * Note that every article on 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 CorporisPublica:How the Current events page works, and also CorporisPublica:In the news/Candidates

Usage
The template takes three parameters
 * Parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
 * Parameter 2 overrides the word "event"
 * Named parameter "date" categorizes into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted.