Talk:Ocean Countess

Appropriate use of the "current" template

The ship is currently on fire. I will update the page some more as more information flows through. http://maritimematters.com/2013/11/ocean-countess-on-fire/--Trulystand700 (talk) 19:54, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The template {{current}} was created for, and continues to be used for those exceedingly rare occasions in which so many editors are updating an article in the same hour, that they are interfering with each other's edits, and is an advisory to editors, not readers.
Such rapid edits by many dozens of editors within the same hour is clearly not occurring with this article at this time, nor has it ever occurred for this article, which at this time has a total of FIVE edits over the course of the most recent EIGHT MONTHS, of which the most recent THREE edits were by only one editor, today.
It is further, the natural state of affairs that a Wikipedia article is updated as a consequence of activity occurring presently or recently. The {{current}} template has nothing to do with occasions where some topic is "in the news", nor occasions in which the topic is "presently occurring", as there are always thousands of such topics noted in Wikipedia in which both qualities are true, and an indication of such attributes via a template such as this fails to add anything of substance to the article.
The appropriate method to indicate that an event is presently occuring is to state the times and dates of such activity, in a sentence in the lede of the article for the benefit of the present and future reader of the article.
-- Yellowdesk (talk) 22:20, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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