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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]]. The template is [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot 2|automatically removed by Yapperbot]] once an article has not been edited in the past five hours.

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

==Guidelines==
* Every article on Wikipedia has a [[Wikipedia:General disclaimer|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]].
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==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 [[WP:BOT|bot]] if omitted.

===Examples===
{{Current/examples}}

== TemplateData ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
    "description": "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.",
	"format": "inline",
	"params": {
		"date": {
			"label": "Month and year",
			"description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.",
			"type": "line",
			"autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
			"example": "January 2013",
			"suggested": true
		},
		"2": {
			"label": "Type of event",
			"description": "Text to replace \"current event\" in the template",
			"type": "string",
			"example": "current aviation incident",
			"suggested": true
		},
		"1": {
			"label": "Affected area",
			"description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"",
			"type": "string",
			"autovalue": "section",
			"example": "section"
		}
	},
	"paramOrder": [
		"date",
		"2",
        "1"
	]
}
</templatedata>

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Current event templates]]
* {{tl|Currentdate}}
* {{tl|Speculation}}
* {{tl|In use}}
* {{tl|Recentism}}
* {{tl|Update}}

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