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Your search term(s) (optional.) If this parameter is empty, clicking on the resulting link generates a Google search form with an initially blank input field, ready to search the English Wikipedia. Link text to display on your wiki page (optional). If this parameter is empty, the template displays a link, with the link text:
Creates a Google search link for the supplied term. By default, the search link is for the name of the page it is put on, if no term is provided. It is strongly recommended (but not required) that you SUBST: this template.
In general, avoid external links in your articles. Instead, use citations and references, or put them in their own section. Wikipedia:How to structure the content — Wikipedia article about structuring content; Categories are listed at the very bottom of the article.
The markup language called wikitext, also known as wiki markup or wikicode, consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. (Note the lowercase spelling of these terms.
For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead; To ask a question, see Wikipedia:Questions to locate the appropriate venue(s)
The language inside templates is the same language as regular wiki markup, but template writers tend to use the more complex available functions such as #if: statements. See Wikipedia's Help:Template and Wikimedia's mw:Help:Template, including all of "advanced functioning" help pages listed toward the bottom of that page.
The default Vector skin has a selection in the tools menu at the top-right for 'Printable version'. This printable version is often misunderstood, as it is not exactly a print preview. It does not show page numbers, headers and footers applied by your browser. For a proper print preview, use the one supplied by your browser.
For more information, see Help:Link and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial. Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{ subst:Linking }} ).