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This template produces a series of links to various search interfaces to help find additional reference material for articles. This template should not be used in articles themselves - see
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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.
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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
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Optional subsequent parameters (up to 4) are additional search terms. They can be enclosed in double quotation marks, preceded by an unspaced
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to exclude matches containing the phrase "Marilyn Monroe", but not either name by itself, from the search results). You do
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will be searched as the single string "Albert Einstein" not "Albert" and "Einstein" separately).
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To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's
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Search results from dozens of services provided via EBSCOhost to Wikipedians via
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The first parameter is the main search term, which will be treated as a
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