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This is the {{current disaster list}} article message box.
Guidelines
Do not subst.
- This template is for articles that contain an active list of disasters, 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. Use of this template without indicating the topic or article that it is related to may result in prompt removal of this template.
- As an advisory to editors, it is to 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, hundreds of 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.
Usage
The template takes a single optional parameter type that will override the word disasters in the template.
Examples
{{current disaster list}}
 | This article containing a list of disasters may be affected by a currently active incident. Information regarding it may change rapidly as more information becomes available. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information about this disaster for all areas. Initial news reports may be unreliable. |
{{current disaster list|type=wildfires}}
| This article containing a list of wildfires may be affected by a currently active incident. Information regarding it may change rapidly as more information becomes available. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information about this disaster for all areas. Initial news reports may be unreliable. |
See also
- Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Timing-related messages – For other article message boxes of this kind.
- Wikipedia:Current event templates — For the use of current message boxes.
- {{Current disaster}} — For current disaster.
- {{Current}} — For current events.
- {{Current related}} — For articles related to a current event.
- {{Current tropical cyclone}} — a fork of this template.
