Help:Common words, searching for which is not possible
In default MediaWiki search (which is not what Wikimedia projects use), some words cannot be searched for, because they are deemed too common. The MySQL-specific list of stopwords is at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/fulltext-stopwords.html.
To override the stopword list: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_ft_stopword_file
If the exact title of an article is known or guessed, the Go button can be used; this feature is not affected by the above-mentioned restriction.
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