Wildcard in QuickOSM name tag

Question

I'm looking to map (for the sake of the example) all memorials to Lincoln in California using QGIS' QuickOSM plugin.

The query I can easily set up

[out:xml] [timeout:25];
 {{geocodeArea:California}} -> .area_0;
(
    node["memorial"]["name"="Lincoln"](area.area_0);
);
(._;>;);
out body;

looks for the exact match in the name tag. As a result, QuickOSM returns me the message Successful query, but no result, even though California definitely has a memorial with "Lincoln" in the name (the "Abraham Lincoln War Memorial" in Oakland, at least).

How do I formulate the query so that it only checks if the name tag contains this string?

I found a feature request on Github for Overpass API, and a discussion here proposing to use "LIKE", which is however apparently not working for QuickOSM:

[out:xml] [timeout:25];
 {{geocodeArea:California}} -> .area_0;
(
    node["memorial"]["name" LIKE "%Lincoln%"](area.area_0);

);
(._;>;);
out body;

returns Bad request OverpassAPI.

Answer 1

The solution turned out to be relatively simple: it's sufficient to replace the = with a ~. This apparently looks for partial matches.

Using the original example:

[out:xml] [timeout:25];
 {{geocodeArea:California}} -> .area_0;
(
    node["memorial"]["name" ~ "Lincoln"](area.area_0);
);
(._;>;);
out body;

now successfully returns three memorials to Lincoln in California, including the one in Oakland.