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== Fact checking: How to exclude Wikipedia from Googling ==

When I want to check a suspicious fact or term on a Wikipedia page, I start searching using Google. But it's sometimes hard to check whether the only mentioning is from Wikipedia, due to the large number mirrors/copies. 

Is there some nice trick or idea, how to exclude the Wikipedia article (and its copies!) from the Google search?

[[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 16:57, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

*I suppose you could use something like -wikipedia -encyclopedia -dictionary (that shoucd cover most of wikipedias mirrors), basically use a dash (as a minus sign) to exclude results with the term following it. [[User:Siroxo| ]]&mdash;[[User:Siroxo|siro]][[User talk:Siroxo|''&chi;'']][[User:Siroxo|o]] 00:42, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)

:Actually, just adding '''-wikipedia''' will exclude most of the mirrors, since most of the mirrors credit Wikipedia. Hence, the mirrors that credit Wikipedia will be excluded. [[User:LuckyWizard|Lucky Wizard]] 04:29, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

:: Thanks, '''-wikipedia -encyclopedia -dictionary''' did a good job when googling for '''"chandrasekhar limit"'''. Using '''-wikipedia''' alone is defeated by tricks played by some of the copies (like adding the credits using Javascript, so that Google doesn't see them). [[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 09:57, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

::*Here's something you can do.  (I just thought of this now actually, but I'm sure others have too)  If you use a browser that allows keywords/shortcuts to URLs you can make a quick one to check wikipedia.  I use [[Mozilla Firefox]], and this is what I did.  I bookmarked 'http://www.google.com/search?q=-wikipedia%20-dictionary%20-encyclopedia%20%s' and set its keyword to 'check', so now when i type 'check "some stuff I think is a copyvio"', it searches google for '-wikipedia -dictionary -encyclopedia "some stuff I think is a copyvio."'  The %s in the URL is browser dependant I think. [[User:Siroxo| ]]&mdash;[[User:Siroxo|siro]][[User talk:Siroxo|''&chi;'']][[User:Siroxo|o]] 11:05, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
: (One sets the keyword by right clicking on the bookmark and selecting properties, then editing the appropriate field.) [[User:MrJones|Mr. Jones]] 03:59, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)