Editing Help:Searching (section)

==== <code>subpageof:</code> ====
{{shortcut|H:SUBOF}}
{{anchor|subpageof}}

This limits searches to [[Wikipedia:Subpages|subpages]] of the specified page. You can also negate the subpages from a search by preceding subpageof: with a hyphen. Note that articles on Wikipedia don't have subpages, but the pages of the other namespaces do. Therefore, use the [[#namespace name:|namespace parameter]] also, or select the namespace at [[Special:Search]]. Here are some examples:

For <code>User:</code> searches, click "Search for pages containing" or use [[Special:Search]]. This is not needed for other namespaces. To look at all the subpages of a user, try this:

{{kbd|User:subpageof:AzaToth}}

That will display all the subpages of [[User:AzaToth]]. They can also be seen at [[Special:PrefixIndex/User:AzaToth/]] but [[Special:PrefixIndex]] cannot be combined with a search.

To make sure Articles for deletion pages do not show up in the results of a Wikipedia namespace search, try this:

{{kbd|Wikipedia:"Hi there" -subpageof:"Articles for deletion"}}

That will show pages from the Wikipedia namespace with "Hi there" in them, and the list of results will not be cluttered with any [[WP:Articles for deletion]] debates (there are hundreds of thousands). Notice the use of the hyphen (that makes it mean "not subpages of").