Template:Find sources multi/template

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Template documentation

This template produces a series of links to various search interfaces to help find additional reference material for articles. It is based on the {{find sources multi}} meta-template. 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 article is passed as the search string. Note that this may or may not be desirable with disambiguated article names (if the Wikipedia disambiguator is sensible, however, it may actually help refine the search results).

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 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.
• The Internet Archive, a digital library of public websites.
• Bing, Microsoft's flagship search engine.
• Google News, Google's search engine for news sites. Only recent news stories will be searched for.
• The website of The New York Times, a highly respected newspaper.
• Wikipedia Reference Search, a Google search that only searches sites vetted by Wikipedians.
• DuckDuckGo, a search engine that uses information from crowd-sourced websites (such as Wikipedia) to provide its results.
• Thibbs' Google RS, a custom Google search engine that limits the search to sites listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources.
• Google Newspapers, a search of Google's digital archive of print newspapers.

Examples

• Default search:

{{Find sources multi/all}}

produces:

Google⧼dot-separator⧽Google Books⧼dot-separator⧽Google Scholar⧼dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼dot-separator⧽Free Google Images⧼dot-separator⧽Archive.org⧼dot-separator⧽Bing⧼dot-separator⧽Google News recent⧼dot-separator⧽New York Times⧼dot-separator⧽Wikipedia Reference Search⧼dot-separator⧽DuckDuckGo⧼dot-separator⧽VGRS⧼dot-separator⧽Google Newspapers

• Simple search:

{{Find sources multi/all|Albert Einstein}}

produces:

Google⧼dot-separator⧽Google Books⧼dot-separator⧽Google Scholar⧼dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼dot-separator⧽Free Google Images⧼dot-separator⧽Archive.org⧼dot-separator⧽Bing⧼dot-separator⧽Google News recent⧼dot-separator⧽New York Times⧼dot-separator⧽Wikipedia Reference Search⧼dot-separator⧽DuckDuckGo⧼dot-separator⧽VGRS⧼dot-separator⧽Google Newspapers

• Complex search:

{{Find sources multi/all|Albert Einstein|physics|-"Marilyn Monroe"|relativity|science}}

produces:

Google⧼dot-separator⧽Google Books⧼dot-separator⧽Google Scholar⧼dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼dot-separator⧽Free Google Images⧼dot-separator⧽Archive.org⧼dot-separator⧽Bing⧼dot-separator⧽Google News recent⧼dot-separator⧽New York Times⧼dot-separator⧽Wikipedia Reference Search⧼dot-separator⧽DuckDuckGo⧼dot-separator⧽VGRS⧼dot-separator⧽Google Newspapers

See also

• {{find video game sources}} - includes a link to Gwern's Google RS
• {{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

• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Search links
• WP:Find
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources

This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Find sources multi/template.
Any categories and documentation specific to this template should be added to the template's /doc subpage.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.