Template:Current/doc

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 How the Current events page works, and also 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 into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted.

Template data
{	"params": { "1": {			"label": "Type (typically section)", "description": "Something to replace \"article\" in the template, typically \"section\"", "type": "string", "default": "article" },		"2": {			"label": "Type", "description": "Allows modification of the current link instead of displaying \"current event\"", "example": "current aviation incident", "type": "string", "suggested": true },		"date": { "label": "Date", "description": "The month and year that the article is identified as current.", "example": "May 2015", "type": "date", "required": true }	},	"description": "This template generates a tag to indicate that the article documents a current event." }

Redirects

 * Current section