మూస:Linksearch

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Helps to search for external link URLs in articles, by creating a link to Special:Linksearch.

Usage

• The first argument is the URL to be searched for.
• The second, optional argument is caption.

Examples:

• Code: {{linksearch|*.example.com}}
• Result: [2]

• Code: {{linksearch|*.example.com|Here are all the articles with links to example.com}}
• Result: Here are all the articles with links to example.com

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 a link to find 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}} – Navbox with 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.

See also

• meta:Help:Linksearch
• Help:Searching
• Category:Search templates