Template:Current/doc

This template displays the tag above and adds articles to category:Current events or one of its dated subcategories.

Guidelines

 * This template was created for those occasions that many editors (perhaps a hundred or more) edit an article on the same day, as an advisory to editors.
 * 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.
 * It is expected, when used properly, that this template and its closely related templates will appear on an article for perhaps a day or two, 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.

Usage
The template takes three optional parameters
 * Default parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
 * Default parameter 2 overrides the word "event"
 * Named parameter "date" categorises into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a WP:BOT if omitted. (A value of a year alone is used for year long events or seasons)}