Template:Find video game sources
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This template produces a series of links to various search interfaces. It is used in AfD discussions to help find additional reference material for the articles being discussed. It additionally includes video game topic searches. An optional |linksearch=
parameter can be used when discussing websites and sources, such as, at WT:VGRS. This template should not be used in articles themselves - see Wikipedia:EL#Links normally to be avoided.
Contents
Usage
The first parameter is the main search term, which will be treated as a literal string if multi-part (e.g. Albert Einstein
will be searched as the single string "Albert Einstein" not "Albert" and "Einstein" separately).
Optional subsequent parameters (up to 4) are additional search terms. They can be enclosed in double quotation marks, preceded by an unspaced -
(hyphen) to exclude them from the search results, or both (e.g. -"Marilyn Monroe"
to exclude matches containing the phrase "Marilyn Monroe", but not either name by itself, from the search results). You do not need to add -wikipedia
, as the template automatically does this for you. Also, there is no need to add words in plural form unless irregular, as the search interface will match (for example) billiards as well given a search term of billiard.
If no parameters are given, the name of the current subpage is used as the search string. If the current subpage has a disambiguator in parentheses, e.g. Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song), then the main part of the page name will be quoted and the disambiguation text will follow, like "Happy Birthday" Stevie Wonder song
. You can specify that another title be used by using the title
parameter.
Search engines
The template includes links to the following search engines:
- Google, the flagship search engine from Google Inc.
- Google News, Google's search engine for news sites.
- Google Newspapers, a search of Google's digital archive of print newspapers.
- Google Books, Google's search engine for books.
- Google Scholar, Google's search engine for academic papers and other scholarly research.
- JSTOR, an online library containing digitised versions of academic journals. Requires a subscription.
- Google Images, Google's search engine for images. Only images compatible with Wikipedia's licensing are included.
- free news sources
- A link to Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. This isn't actually a search link, but a portal page for various resources available only to Wikipedians.
- The website of The New York Times, a highly respected newspaper.
- Wikipedia Reference Search, a Google search that only searches sites vetted by Wikipedians.
- Thibbs' Google RS, a custom Google search engine that limits the search to sites listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library internal archive search.
- A search in the WikiProject Video games talk page and its archives under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games.
Examples
- Default search:
{{Find sources video games}}
- produces:
- Find video game sources: "Find video game sources" – news⧼Dot-separator⧽newspapers⧼Dot-separator⧽books⧼Dot-separator⧽scholar⧼Dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼Dot-separator⧽free images⧼Dot-separator⧽free news sources⧼Dot-separator⧽The Wikipedia Library⧼Dot-separator⧽NYT⧼Dot-separator⧽WP reference⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RS⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RL⧼Dot-separator⧽WPVG/Talk
- Simple search:
{{Find sources video games|Albert Einstein}}
- produces:
- Find video game sources: "Albert Einstein" – news⧼Dot-separator⧽newspapers⧼Dot-separator⧽books⧼Dot-separator⧽scholar⧼Dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼Dot-separator⧽free images⧼Dot-separator⧽free news sources⧼Dot-separator⧽The Wikipedia Library⧼Dot-separator⧽NYT⧼Dot-separator⧽WP reference⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RS⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RL⧼Dot-separator⧽WPVG/Talk
- Complex search:
{{Find sources video games|Albert Einstein|physics OR cosmology|-"Marilyn Monroe"|relativity|science}}
- produces:
- Find video game sources: "Albert Einstein" physics OR cosmology -"Marilyn Monroe" relativity – news⧼Dot-separator⧽newspapers⧼Dot-separator⧽books⧼Dot-separator⧽scholar⧼Dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼Dot-separator⧽free images⧼Dot-separator⧽free news sources⧼Dot-separator⧽The Wikipedia Library⧼Dot-separator⧽NYT⧼Dot-separator⧽WP reference⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RS⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RL⧼Dot-separator⧽WPVG/Talk
(Note that Google and many other search engines use capitalized boolean operators "OR" and "AND".)
- Custom title search:
{{Find sources video games|title=Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song)}}
- produces:
- Find video game sources: "Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song)" – news⧼Dot-separator⧽newspapers⧼Dot-separator⧽books⧼Dot-separator⧽scholar⧼Dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼Dot-separator⧽free images⧼Dot-separator⧽free news sources⧼Dot-separator⧽The Wikipedia Library⧼Dot-separator⧽NYT⧼Dot-separator⧽WP reference⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RS⧼Dot-separator⧽VG/RL⧼Dot-separator⧽WPVG/Talk
See also
- {{Find sources notice}} - styled article talk header template for article talk pages
- {{Find sources notice 2}} - talk header template with more comprehensive search options
- {{Find sources}} - main find sources template
- {{Find video game sources}} - includes a link to Gwern's Google RS
- {{Reliable sources for medical articles}}
- {{Refideas}} - template to include links to possible sources
- {{Search}} - the original search template on which this template was based
- {{Search for}} - a multi-purpose search engine sidebar
- Help:Find sources
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Search links
This documentation is generated by Template:Find sources documentation with data provided by Module:Find sources/autodoc. See Module:Find sources#Automatic documentation for an overview. |