Current and future event templates are designed to indicate that an article or a section is describing a current or future event, and to warn readers about the fast-changing or speculative nature of the article. Such articles usually contain sources to only breaking news reports, which often contain serious inaccuracies.

The main current event template is {{current}}. It adds the article into Category:Current events:

This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.

The current event template may be used to warn the editor or reader about the great flux of edits and the fast-changing state of the article, due to the fact that current events tend to get the most attention from editors. Wikipedia attracts numerous editors who want to update articles in real time immediately after breaking news reports are published. However, sources to breaking news reports often contain serious inaccuracies, and so the template can also draw attention to the need to add improved sources as soon as they become available. In such a case, the template is subject to removal when the event described is no longer receiving massive editing attention.

This template, and the topic-related templates listed below, are not meant to be generally disclaimers indicating that an article's contents may not be accurate, or to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic (if it were, hundreds of thousands of articles would have these templates, with no informational consequence). Generally it is expected that these templates will appear on an article for less than a day, or occasionally longer, but not several weeks (see Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles for more information). If the article continues to have issues with sources, one of the templates listed Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles#Verifiability and sources should be used instead.

Other closely related templates include:

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{{Current related}} links talk edit	This article may be affected by a current event. Information in this article may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{In use}} links talk edit	This project page is actively undergoing a major edit for time. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed. This page was last edited at 01:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC) (2 months ago) – this estimate is cached, update. Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited for a significant time. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it or replace it with {{Under construction}} between editing sessions.

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The current template also receives parameters; for example:

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{{current}}	This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{current|section|date=March 2024}}	This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this section may not reflect the most current information. (March 2024)
{{current||current election|date=March 2024}}	This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (March 2024)

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Topic related templates include:

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{{Current disaster}} links talk edit	This article is about a current disaster where information can change quickly or be unreliable. The latest page updates may not reflect the most up-to-date information.
{{Current disaster list}} links talk edit	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 person}} links talk edit	This article is about a person involved in a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{Recent death}} links talk edit	This article is currently being heavily edited because its subject has recently died. Information about their death and related events may change significantly and initial news reports may be unreliable. The most recent updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{Recent death presumed}} links talk edit	This article is about a person who has been presumed dead. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person's presumed death and surrounding events, may change rapidly as more facts become known. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{Current spaceflight}} links talk edit	This article or section documents a current or recent spaceflight. Details may change as the mission progresses. Initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to this article or section may not reflect the most current information. For more information please see WikiProject Spaceflight.
{{Current sport}} links talk edit	This article documents a current sporting event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports, scores, or statistics may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.
{{Current sport-related}} links talk edit	This article is related to a current sports-related event. For information on the topic, see [[{{{1}}}]]. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The last updates to these articles may not reflect the most current information.
{{Current sports transaction}} links talk edit	The subject of this article is in the news regarding a reported transaction. Information regarding the transaction may be based on anonymous sources or awaiting an official announcement. Breaking news reports may be unreliable.
{{Current weather event}} links talk edit	This article is about a current {{{1}}} where information can change quickly or be unreliable. The latest page updates may not reflect the most up-to-date information. Please refer to your local weather service or media outlets for the latest weather information pertaining to a specific location.

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Note that Wikipedia is not a crystal ball: Wikipedia is not a collection of unverifiable speculation. All articles about future events must be verifiable, and the subject matter must be of sufficiently wide interest that it would merit an article if the event had already occurred.

Consider using the {{Speculation}} template for articles that may violate WP:CRYSTAL:

This article possibly contains unsourced predictions, speculative material, or accounts of events that might not occur. Information must be verifiable and based on reliable published sources.

• {{Current event editnotice}}, an editnotice for current event pages
• Category:Temporal templates
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#Breaking news
• Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
• Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Timing-related messages