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 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 perhaps a day or so, occasionally several days.
 * 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

Usage
The template takes four optional parameters
 * Default parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
 * Default parameter 2 overrides the word "event"
 * Named parameter "wikinews" which should be completed with the title of a published Wikinews on the events which merit use of this template. Where a Wikipedia article remains in the news, additional stories may be written on Wikinews; this parameter should be updated with the latest relevant Wikinews article as and when it is published
 * Named parameter "date" categorizes into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted. (A value of a year alone is used for year long events or seasons)}