Template:Current person/doc

Guidelines

• This template is for articles which involve an article about a person involved in a current event which is either changing rapidly or about which understanding is rapidly evolving. This is an advisory to readers that the article may be incomplete and subject to change.
• As an advisory to editors, it may also be used in those occasions that many editors (perhaps a hundred or more) edit an article on the same day.
• It is not intended to be used to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic; if it were, thousands of articles would have this template.
• Generally it is expected 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 Wikipedia:How the Current events page works.

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Usage

• Place this template at the top of the article, if the entire article is relevant to the related article.
• Alternatively, place the template in an appropriate section of the article, and use the first parameter to indicate that the "section" is relevant to the related article.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Current person in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Current person

Use this template to indicate that an article is about a person involved in a current event, that information may change rapidly as the event progresses and that initial news reports may be unreliable.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Line	suggested
Not a person?	2	Text to replace "person" in the template Example animal	String	optional
Type of event	3 event	Text to replace "current event" in the template Example current election	String	suggested
Affected area	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value section	String	optional

See also

• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• Template:Recent death
• Template:Recent death presumed
• Template:Current
• Template:Current related
• Template:Current sport-related