Find video game sources: "Find video game sources" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/Talk

Template documentation

This template is used on approximately 5,200 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template uses Lua:

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

((Find sources video games))

((Find sources video games|Albert Einstein))

Parameters

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.

How this works

Template:Find sources dynamically selects a list of relevant search links based on the WikiProjects listed on an article's talk page. The default search link array is ((find general sources)). A full list of domain-specific link groups are available in the see also section of this document.

Domain links override

Template:Find sources respects the domain (aka search-domain) parameter (e.g. domain=general), which can be set by editors in ((talk header)) or ((find sources)) to override the automated selection.

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
Search results from dozens of services provided via EBSCOhost to Wikipedians via Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library.
The website of The New York Times, a newspaper of record for the United States.
Wikipedia Reference Search, a Google search that only searches sites vetted by Wikipedians.
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:

Simple search:

((Find sources video games|Albert Einstein))

produces:

Find video game sources: "Albert Einstein" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/Talk

Complex search:

produces:

Find video game sources: "Albert Einstein" physics OR cosmology -"Marilyn Monroe" relativity – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · 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 · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/Talk

Topic	Template	Module	Display Box
General sources	((Find general sources))	config	((General sources notice))
└ General sources (mainspace)	((Find sources mainspace))	config
Biographical	((Find biographical sources))		((biographical sources notice))
France	((Find France sources))		((France sources notice))
Medical	((Find medical sources))	config	((medical sources notice))
└ Medical (mainspace)		config
Video games	((Find video game sources))	config

Usage

Parameters

How this works

Domain links override

Search engines

Examples

See also

Topic templates

Additional resources