Template:Current sports transaction/doc

Guidelines

Do not subst.

• This template is for sports articles, particularly professional athletes in team sports, that are in the news for a transaction, such as a trade or a new contract. This is an advisory to readers that the transaction may be awaiting an official announcement, and that readers should therefore be cautious about the content presented.
• Note that every article on Wikipedia has a General disclaimer indicating that the article contents may not be accurate. As such, this template is redundant.
• As an advisory to editors, it may also be used to indicate that an athlete should not be affiliated with a team without referencing an official announcement. Unofficial reports from reliable sources, if mentioned, must be attributed to the news source (e.g. "ACME News reports that John Doe was traded ...").
• 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, until the transaction is officially confirmed, denied, or does not materialize.

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Usage

This template contains 4 optional parameters:

• Unnamed parameter 1 overrides the word article to any text (e.g. section).
• sport, automatically switches the image to be more specific to replace the athletic shoe image. Currently supports: American football, Australian rules football, baseball, basketball, cricket, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer.
• trans, changes transaction to any text specified (e.g. trade, contract).
• reason, changes the text after trans, i.e. "may be based on anonymous sources ..." to any specified text.
• image, which can switch to an alternate image that is not supported.

Code	Result
{{Current sports transaction}}
{{Current sports transaction|trans=trade|sport=baseball}}
{{Current sports transaction|section|trans=new contract|sport=basketball}}
{{Current sports transaction|sport=hockey|reason=may be awaiting an official announcement.}}
{{Current sports transaction|image=Tennisball current event.svg}}

Images used

Further information: Template:Current sports event icon

Redirects

• {{Transaction pending}}
• {{Sports transaction}}
• {{Reported sports transaction}}

See also

• {{Current sports}}
• {{Current sport-related}}
• {{Match in progress}}
• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• {{uw-sportstrans}}, warning template for user talk pages regarding editing of sports transactions