Template:Find video game sources

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Template documentation

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.

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:

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