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Welcome! (We can't say that loudly enough!)

Hello, Danjf, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

If you have any questions or problems, no matter what they are, leave me a message on my talk page. Or, please come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{Help me}} on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

Please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing four tildes (~~~~); our software automatically converts it to your username and the date. We're so glad you're here! Meatsgains(talk) 00:20, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to provide a link to a specific Google Search

On talk pages, it may be useful to provide a google search link directly in a discussion of a topic's notability or in debates about which name for a subject is the most common. The Wikimedia software that powers Wikipedia lets you make links to Google by including google: as the prefix for the link, like this:

[[google:Tipster]].

Which looks like this:

google:Tipster

Note: It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day", use Tip-of-the-day.

To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wiki.x.io (no spaces before or after), like this:

[[google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wiki.x.io]].

Which looks like this:

google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wiki.x.io

To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:

[[google:Tipster+site:en.wiki.x.io|"Tip of the day"]]

Which makes it look like this:

"Tip of the day"
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}