Template:Current election/doc

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

Guidelines

• 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

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Usage

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

Code	Result
{{current election}}
{{current election|section|date=November 2024}}
{{current election| |a recent election|date=November 2024}}
{{current election| | |referendum|date=November 2024}}

Template data

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.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Type (typically section)	1	Something to replace "article" in the template, typically "section" Default article	String	optional
Type	2	Allows modification of the current link instead of displaying "a current election" Default a current election Example a current referendum	String	optional
Election type	3	Overrides the word "election" Default election Example referendum	String	optional
Date	date	The month and year that the article is identified as current. Example May 2015	Date	required

See also

• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• {{Current event}}
• {{election}}