A common mistake is to type a natural-language question into the search box and expect an answer. While some Web search tools support this, the Wikipedia search is a text search only; questions, as such, can be asked at the reference desk and similar places. A search for will return articles with the words , , , and , ignoring the question mark (in practice this can lead to articles answering simple questions).
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