Template:Find sources multi/doc/template

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.

Usage
The first parameter is the main search term, which will be treated as a literal string if multi-part (e.g.  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.   to exclude matches containing the phrase "Marilyn Monroe", but not either name by itself, from the search results). You do not need to add, 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 TechInfoDepot disambiguator is sensible, however, it may actually help refine the search results)

Search engines
The template includes links to the following search engines:

Examples

 * Default search:


 * produces:




 * Simple search:


 * produces:




 * Complex search:


 * produces:



Substitution
This template can be substituted onto the /doc subpage of the individual templates based on find sources multi. Substitution has the advantage that the documentation can be altered freely, but the disadvantage that updates and improvements to this template will no longer have any effect. To substitute this template, take the following steps:

First, on the template page, remove the doc parameter (or set it to no). Then use the documentation template like this:

&lt;noinclude&gt;

&lt;/noinclude&gt;

Then, create the /doc subpage with the following content, filling in the parameters as relevant:

Parameters

 * - If the template being documented has set the inarticle parameter, please set yes.
 * - If the template being documented uses the free parameter, please set yes.
 * - The link code for the first link. This parameter is required.
 * ,  ...   - The link codes for the other links.

Here are the possible values for the link parameters:

The examples on this page use find sources multi/all, and the search engine descriptions are taken from find sources multi/linkinfo.

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