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Wikipedia:Current event templates

Current and future event templates are designed to indicate that an article or a section is describing a current or future event, and to warn readers about the fast-changing or speculative nature of the article. Such articles usually contain sources to only breaking news reports, which often contain serious inaccuracies.

The main current event template is {{current}}. It adds the article into Category:Current events:

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. Feel free to improve this article or discuss changes on the talk page, but please note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The current event template may be used to warn the editor or reader about the great flux of edits and the fast-changing state of the article, due to the fact that current events tend to get the most attention from editors. Wikipedia attracts numerous editors who want to update articles in real time immediately after breaking news reports are published. However, sources to breaking news reports often contain serious inaccuracies, and so the template can also draw attention to the need to add improved sources as soon as they become available. In such a case, the template is subject to removal when the event described is no longer receiving massive editing attention.

This template, and the topic-related templates listed below, are not meant to be generally disclaimers indicating that an article's contents may not be accurate, or to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic (if it were, hundreds of thousands of articles would have these templates, with no informational consequence). Generally it is expected that these templates will appear on an article for less than a day, or occasionally longer, but not several weeks (see Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles for more information). If the article continues to have issues with sources, one of the templates listed Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles#Verifiability and sources should be used instead.

Other closely related templates include:

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{{Current related}} links talk edit	This article may be affected by a current event. Information in this article may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{In use}} links talk edit	This project pageisactively undergoing a major edit for time. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed. This page was last edited at 01:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC) (6 months ago) – this estimate is cached, update. Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited for a significant time. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it or replace it with {{Under construction}} between editing sessions.

The current template also receives parameters; for example:

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{{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. Feel free to improve this article or discuss changes on the talk page, but please note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{current|section|date=July 2024}}	This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this section may not reflect the most current information. Feel free to improve this section or discuss changes on the talk page, but please note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{current||current election|date=July 2024}}	This article documents a current election. 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. Feel free to improve this article or discuss changes on the talk page, but please note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Topic related templates include:

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{{Current disaster}} links talk edit	This article is about a current disaster where information can change quickly or be unreliable. The latest page updates may not reflect the most up-to-date information. Please help improve this article using reliable sources or help by discussing changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current disaster list}} links talk edit	This article containing a list of disasters may be affected by a currently active incident. Information regarding it may change rapidly as more information becomes available. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information about this disaster for all areas. Initial news reports may be unreliable. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current person}} links talk edit	This article is about a person involved in a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Recent death}} links talk edit	This article is currently being heavily edited because its subject has recently died. Information about their death and related events may change significantly and initial news reports may be unreliable. The most recent updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but edits without reliable references may be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Recent death presumed}} links talk edit	This article is about a person who has been presumed dead. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person's presumed death and surrounding events, may change rapidly as more facts become known. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current spaceflight}} links talk edit	This article or section documents a current or recent spaceflight. Details may change as the mission progresses. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article or section may not reflect the most current information. For more information please see WikiProject Spaceflight. Please feel free to improve this article or section (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current sport}} links talk edit	This article documents a current sporting event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports, scores, or statistics may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current sport-related}} links talk edit	This article is related to a current sports-related event. For information on the topic, see [[{{{1}}}]]. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to these articles may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current sports transaction}} links talk edit	The subject of this article is in the news regarding a reported transaction. Information regarding the transaction may be based on anonymous sources or awaiting an official announcement. Breaking news reports may be unreliable. Please feel free to discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)
{{Current weather event}} links talk edit	This article is about a current {{{1}}} where information can change quickly or be unreliable. The latest page updates may not reflect the most up-to-date information. Please refer to your local weather service or media outlets for the latest weather information pertaining to a specific location. Please help improve this article using reliable sources or help by discussing changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

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{{Current event editnotice|expiry={{subst:#time:Y-m-d|+ 2 weeks}}}} links talk edit

When editing: Information must be cited to reliable sources or it will be removed. Information must be presented from a neutral point of view. Please use summary style, avoiding indiscriminate detail—Wikipedia is not a newspaper. If reliable sources attribute information to a third party rather than stating it in their own voice, it should also be attributed in the article text here. Images and other media must have a verifiable copyright status. Non-free media must satisfy all of the relevant criteria. Please consider only editing the section you wish to change, rather than the whole page. Please use the past tense for all past events, even recent ones.

Note that Wikipedia is not a crystal ball: Wikipedia is not a collection of unverifiable speculation. All articles about future events must be verifiable, and the subject matter must be of sufficiently wide interest that it would merit an article if the event had already occurred.

Consider using the {{Speculation}} template for articles that may violate WP:CRYSTAL:

This article possibly contains unsourced predictions, speculative material, or accounts of events that might not occur. Information must be verifiable and based on reliable published sources. Please help improve it by removing unsourced speculative content. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

• {{Current event editnotice}}, an editnotice for current event pages
• Category:Temporal templates
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#Breaking news
• Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
• Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Timing-related messages