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.
 * 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 ...").
 * As of 2023, readers on Wikipedia's mobile version will only see a truncated version of this template, and readers on the mobile apps won't see it at all.
 * 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.
 * 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.


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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.
 * 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.

Redirects

 * Transaction pending
 * Sports transaction
 * Reported sports transaction