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 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.
It is expected, when used properly, that this template and its closely related templates will appear on an article for perhaps a day or two, occasionally several days.
Named parameter "date" categorises into a monthly sub category for ease of maintenance. This will be added by a WP:BOT if omitted. (A value of a year alone is used for year long events or seasons)}
