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

{{current}}
{{current|section}}
{{current|​|current election}}

• Every article on Wikipedia has a 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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The template takes two positional (unnamed) and three named parameters; all are optional:

• |1= – overrides the word article
• |2= – overrides the words current event
• |date= – use month name and year, e.g., |date=August 2024.
• |find= – search keywords for {{find sources}} param 1 (double-quoted search); default: page title. See details below.
• |find2= – search keywords for {{find sources}} param 2 (unquoted search). Alias: unquoted. See below.

Date:

Use month name and year only; for example: |date=August 2024. If omitted, this will be added by a bot. Categorizes the page into a monthly sub-category of Category:Current events for ease of navigation and maintenance.

Find parameters:

The optional |find= parameters are available, for adding {{find sources}} links to the message displayed by the template:

There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the {{find sources}} links optionally displayed by the template. The find parameters can be used to provide search keywords of your choice to the {{find sources}} links. Use:

• |find= to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to {{find sources}} positional param |1.
• |find2= to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to {{find sources}} param |2. The alias |unquoted= may be used instead.

In many, probably most cases, there is no need to use the find parameters, if the most natural search keywords to find news about the current event are the same as the article title. In other cases, especially if the breaking event is about a subtopic of the article title, or if most of the high quality sources are in another language, it may be helpful to include the find parameters.

1. {{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. (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

2. {{current|section|date=August 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. (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

3. {{current|​|current election}}

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. (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

4. {{current|​|tropical storm|date=August 2024}}

This article documents a tropical storm. 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. (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

5. {{current|​|find=Princess Diana|find2=Paris crash}}

Note: No example of search results for an actual current event would stay current for very long, so it's impossible to show what results would look like, especially from newspapers, for a search about an actual current event. This example is merely illustrative of the syntax and the general form of the message, but the search results are not typical of what they would be for an actual breaking news event. 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. Find sources: "Princess Diana" Paris crash – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• {{Currentdate}}
• {{Speculation}}
• {{In use}}
• {{Recentism}}
• {{Update}}