Template:Help desk searches

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Usage

{{Help desk searches}} is a navigation template that links to several {{Google custom}} searches that enable Help desk volunteers to answer questions on the Help desk. The template may also be useful to anyone who edits Wikipedia and wants to look up help pages, guidelines, and instructions from various locations.

The template is suitable for adding to at least these locations:

Help desk instructions pages, such as Wikipedia:Help desk/How to answer
user pages of Help desk volunteers.

The template takes no parameters. To add it to a page, use the code:

{{Help desk searches}}

How to manage this template's visibility

Use {{Help desk searches |state=collapsed}} to show this template in its collapsed (hidden) state.
Use {{Help desk searches |state=expanded}} to show this template in its expanded (fully visible) state.
Use {{Help desk searches |state=autocollapse}} to show this template in its collapsed (hidden) state only if there is another template of the same type on the page.
Unless set otherwise (see state parameter within the template's code), autocollapse is the default state.

Do not use in articles

Shortcut: {{Warn}}

Do not use this template in articles (as Google search links are not appropriate in articles). The template is only for user pages, talk pages and other process pages (Help desk, WikiProjects, etc.).

Templates to search Wikipedia

Fulltext search links

{{Search link}}: Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example: {{search link|tosa diary|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}} creates pages with the phrase "tosa diary".
{{shortSearch}}, {{wpsearch}}: Create links also to google.

Search boxes

{{search box}}: Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right.
{{search prefixes}}: Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
{{search archives}} and {{archive banner}}: For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

Page title searches

{{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 helper

{{linksearch}}: Search for external links matching for a URL.
{{search deletion discussions}}: Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions.
{{dabsearch}}: Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
{{Help desk searches}}: List of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:help desk task.
{{spamsearch}}: Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.