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This article documents a current disaster. Information regarding it may change rapidly as it progresses. Though this article is updated frequently, it may not reflect the most current and/or official information about this disaster for all areas.

This template may have no transclusions, because it is substituted by a tool or script, it is used as part of a short-term or less active Misplaced Pages process, or for some other reason.

This is the {{current disaster}} article message box.

For pages that are considered current disasters see: main (article) namespace links

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 intended for use on articles for large natural disasters, such as severe weather, where official information should be consulted instead of Misplaced Pages exclusively. This template reminds readers that Misplaced Pages information may not be up-to-date and to consult secondary and primary sources instead.
• It should be used on any article that is considered a current disaster. That is to say, one that is still taking place.
  • For a current wildfire (use {{current wildfire}}) this means any wildfire that is actively burning and has not been deemed 100% contained.

Usage

The template takes seven optional parameters:

• event – Overrides the type of event, such as for instance "event=hurricane".
• severity – Adds an adjective in front of the initial disaster name, for something like a "major earthquake", like this: "severity=major".
• areas – Specifies a warning for situations where information in the article may not be applicable for all areas (such as during weather events), please add this with "for all areas" as the option.
• name – Overrides in a name for the event, most common on storms. It is placed in front of the current event wikilink.
• time – Overrides the "current" word for another word, like "time=recent".
• type - Overrides the word "article" with another word, such as "type=section".
• link – Feeding anything to this parameter removes the link to Portal:Current events, for instance "link=no".

For instance, for a tropical cyclone named Hurricane Joaquin you could use this code:

{{Current disaster|name=Hurricane Joaquin|event=tropical cyclone}}

Which renders like this:

This article documents Hurricane Joaquin, a current tropical cyclone. Information regarding it may change rapidly as it progresses. Though this article is updated frequently, it may not reflect the most current and/or official information about this tropical cyclone for all areas.

Wildfires

Any wildfire not 100% contained should have this template at the top of the page:

• {{current wildfire|NAME_OF_FIRE}} will render as:

This article documents NAME_OF_FIRE, a current wildfire. Information regarding it may change rapidly as it progresses. Though this article is updated frequently, it may not reflect the most current and/or official information about this wildfire for all areas.

See also

• Misplaced Pages:Template messages/General#Timing-related messages – For other article message boxes of this kind.
• Misplaced Pages:Current event templates — For the use of current message boxes.
• {{Current}} — For current events.
• {{Current related}} — For articles related to a current event.
• {{Current weather event}} — a fork of this template.

• Misplaced Pages transclusionless templates
• Temporal templates