Phrases
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- Non profit organisations: English | American
- Companies listed on a stock exchange: google
- Resumes: Wikipedia search google "curriculum vitae"
- User pages that transclude ((infobox company)): 1 | 2 | 3
- User pages that transclude ((infobox record label)): query
Wikipedia is not a free web host
Please tag these with ((subst:prod|Wikipedia is not MySpace)) instead.
- People who claim they're world leaders: google
- Old userified vanity pages: dedicated userpage | userfy warnings | userfy warnings 2
- Pages that use invalid HTML, copy-and-pasted from MySpace or another Web host: hyperlinks | images
- All wrongs reversed: google
- For some reason, these throws up more proddable pages than spam...
- People with professional training: google
- People who've submitted their vanity pages to the main namespace: bot updated page | archives
- Userpages containing "band" in the title: google
- Userpages that transclude various band infoboxes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
- Userpages that transclude ((Infobox person)): Person
- Userpages that transclude ((Infobox Celebrity)): upper lower
Other
- Big Brother games in userspace: wiki search
- Survivor games in userspace: wiki search (beware of false positives)
- Amazing Race games in userspace: wiki search
- WikiProject Spam
- Usage
This is a list of search terms used to find mainly userspace spam. Feel free to add to it. If you find anything, tag it with ((db-spam)).
To include this template on your user page, add ((spamsearch)) on your user page.
Note: Be aware that this page, and anything that it is transcluded on, may show up in these Google searches as well.
I (MER-C) can generate editor-friendly versions of API queries (e.g. userpages containing Template:Infobox Musical artist) on request. Please ask on my talk page.
Edit this template to add the latest spam keywords.
Templates for searching Wikipedia[edit]
Search links[edit]
A search link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.
One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax: [[Special:Search/query| label]]. So this search link will (1) navigate: [[Special:search/Wales]] → Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]] → search/~Wales if you prefix a ~ tilde character.
All other search links are made from a template that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia.
- ((Search link)) offers all the capabilities of Searching (search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable: ((search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123)) → label.
- ((Regex)) – develop an advanced regex search. ((regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0)) → Articles with comments missing the ! bang character
- ((Template usage)) – develop a template regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details. ((Template usage | Convert | \((!))C\((!))F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit)) → Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
- ((ShortSearch)) – create three search links: ((ShortSearch | system operations research)) → WP GWP G (search Wikipedia, "Google" Wikipedia, and Google search)
- ((wpsearch)) – create five search links: ((wpsearch|collaborative search)) → collaborative search – Wikipedia search | Google search | Bing search | DuckDuckGo search | Yahoo search
- ((Wikidata search link)) – creates a Wikidata search link for descriptions, entities, items, properties, etc. → https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Universe&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1
Search boxes[edit]
- ((Search box)) – Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right
- ((Search prefixes)) – Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
- ((Archive banner)) – For searching archives. It is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.
- ((Search lists)) – For searching from lists of lists.
Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.
Page title searches[edit]
- ((Canned search)) – Link to automated search results for a given term
- ((In title)) – Search for pages whose name contains given words
- ((Look from)) – Search for pages whose name begins with a given word
For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching § grep.
Other Wikipedia editor help[edit]
- ((Linksearch)) – Searches for external links matching a URL
- ((dabsearch|term)) – External tool to find page titles containing a
(term)in parentheses; useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study - ((Help desk searches)) – Navbox with list of links to Google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc.; useful for Wikipedia:Help desk tasks
- ((Spamsearch)) – Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer", etc.
See also
- Help:Searching
- Category:Search templates
- MediaWiki:Extension:InputBox § General syntax - how to create your own search box using
<inputbox>...</inputbox>