Template:Current election
 | This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses, until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (April 2024) |
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This template displays the tag above and adds articles to Category:Current elections or one of its dated subcategories.
Guidelines[change source]
- Note that every article on Wikipedia has a General disclaimer indicating that the article contents may not be accurate.
- Generally it is expected that this template and its closely related templates will appear on an article for a few days; occasionally longer.
- 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, and also Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- Check main (article) namespace links
Usage[change source]
The template takes three parameters:
- Parameter 1 overrides the word "article"
- Parameter 2 overrides the words "a current election"
- Parameter 3 overrides the word "election"
- Named parameter "date" categorizes into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a bot if omitted.
Examples[change source]
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{{current election}}
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{{current election|section|date=April 2024}}
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{{current election| |a recent election|date=April 2024}}
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{{current election| | |referendum|date=April 2024}}
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Template data[change source]
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Current election in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Current election
This template generates a tag to indicate that the article documents a current event.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type (typically section) | 1 | Something to replace "article" in the template, typically "section"
| String | optional |
| Type | 2 | Allows modification of the current link instead of displaying "a current election"
| String | optional |
| Election type | 3 | Overrides the word "election"
| String | optional |
| Date | date | The month and year that the article is identified as current.
| Date | required |