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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.
  • To avoid an edit conflict, 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.
This is the template sandbox page for Template:Current event editnotice (diff).
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 Variable display
  • 3 Parameters
    • 3.1 See also

Usage

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For use in editnotices on pages on current events, or whose subjects are currently in the news (such as for having recently died). Similar to {{current}} but in editnotice form. Should not be indiscriminately applied to all current events, only ones attracting a decent amount of edits that this would be useful, particularly those attracting attention from new users or from IP editors who may be unfamiliar with basic editing guidelines.

Please specify a |expiry= parameter, ideally within a few days. As a general guideline, two weeks (14 days) should be enough time for any given current event to pass, unless there is a credible reason to keep the template up longer (for example, to account for autopsies of the dead or the aftermath of a major storm). In rare or extraordinary circumstances, the parameter may be left blank if consensus for this approach is judged to be needed to adequately address a given current event (such as a pandemic).

Pages using this editnotice appear in Category:Pages with current event editnotice‎, sorted by expiry. Transclusions without an expiry have a sortkey of ~, though note that these should not exist and an expiry date should either be added or the editnotice removed.

Variable display

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For users who are not extended confirmed, two additional bullet points appear at the top:
  • Information must be cited to reliable sources or it will be removed.
  • Information must be presented from a neutral point of view.
If the article has been edited in the past 20 minutes, an additional bullet point appears:
  • Please consider only editing the section you wish to change, rather than the whole page.

Parameters

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Editnotice for articles on current events

Template parameters[Edit template data]

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
expiryexpiry

date when the editnotice will stop displaying

Auto value
{{subst:#time:Y-m-d|+ 2 weeks}}
Datesuggested
custom start textcustom_start

custom text for a bullet point at the top

Lineoptional
custom end textcustom_end

custom text for a bullet point at the bottom

Lineoptional

See also

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  • {{Current}}
  • {{Recent death}}
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The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Current event editnotice/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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Last edited on 11 March 2022, at 20:18

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