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Usage

Copy the template code below for the required usage and paste it into the appropriate place in an article, fill the required fields, and remove any that you don't use. If used in the External links section, do not add an video or archive links. DO NOT USE UNNAMED PARAMETERS.

Note on YouTube Shorts, it is best before archiving/formatting a link from a Shorts to change its URL (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xxxxxxxxxx) to a regular YouTube URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxx).

References

{{YouTube|video=|text=|channel=|name=|date=|quote=|subdomain=|parameter=|archivedate=|archiveurl=|archivefile=|nobackup=|nolive=}}

Required parameters

  • |video= Use the alphanumeric part of the url that comes after "watch?v=" in the url. Please do not include anything other than this.
  • |text= Title of the video.
  • |channel= Use the part of the URL that follows https://www.youtube.com/, for example, either user/channelname, channel/channelname, c/channelname, or @channelname
  • |name= The display name of the channel.
  • For archive options, see Backup links below.

Optional parameters

  • |date= Date the YouTube video was published online. In the format YYYY-MM-DD.
  • |quote= To include a quote.
  • |parameter= To create a link to a YouTube playlist, using |parameter=playlist?list.
  • |subdomain= For subdomains of youtube.com, such as music.youtube.com, the subdomain can be specified, for example, |subdomain=music.

Backup links

Information icon Instructions for providing a backup link

In accordance with our Sourcing policy, all links to external sites must include a link to a backup version, preferably using Internet Archive. Instances that do not include one of the following parameters will result in the page being placed in the maintenance category. Please only use one of the following parameters.

  • |archivedate=20251214123005
    This parameter uses the timestamp feature of Internet Archive. The URL supplied earlier in the template, along with archivedate, will provide a link to Internet Archive.
  • |archiveurl=https://archive.is/EfD8P
    If Internet Archive does not work for the link in question, you can use archiveurl to provide a full URL to another backup website, such as archive.today.
  • |archivefile=File:Jon_Favreau_The_Mandalorian.png
    If none of the archiving sites work, then upload a screenshot of the page, add {{Notorphan}} to the file page and include it in this category and on this page, and provide a link to the file (per Wookieepedia:Mofferences/June 29, 2014).
  • |nobackup=1
    If no backup link can be found for content that is no longer available, this parameter can be used. If the content is still available, you can screenshot and upload it to Wookieepedia instead.
  • |nolive=1
    If the original content is no longer available, this parameter can be used, which will make the template add "content now obsolete;" to the citation. This may also mean a backup link can no longer be provided, and therefore may be used as well as |nobackup=1. Some citation templates such as {{SWArchive}} link to older content that is known to be no longer available, and therefore automatically default to |nolive=1 without the need to add the parameter manually.
  • |oldversion=1
    If a reference needs to cite an older version of a page for content that has been removed from the version saved in ArchiveAccess, this parameter must be used. This suppresses the tracking categories for custom archive values, and protects the reference from replacement by C4-DE Bot.

Note that for citation templates using a central repository, archivedate and archiveurl values must be added to the repository, and not on the individual instance of those templates. If this template uses one, it is located at Module:ArchiveAccess/YouTube.

Maintenance categories:

Externals links

{{YouTube|channel=|name=}}

Required parameters

  • |channel= Use the alphanumeric part of the URL that follows https://www.youtube.com/, for example, either user/name, channel/name, or c/name.
  • |name= The display name of the channel.

Example(s)

{{YouTube|video=f98TW0-_10c|text=Lucky kid Visits the set of The Empire Strikes Back Dagobah set. Meets Mark Hamill|channel=channel/UCWAveNRXoE2mJ2xwWtA4TSw|name=Filmumentaries com|archivedate=20160126062413}}

Results in:

YouTube Lucky kid Visits the set of The Empire Strikes Back Dagobah set. Meets Mark Hamill on the Filmumentaries com YouTube channel (backup link)

For a playlist:

{{YouTube|video=PLiJsK_sFeeKygEepqlUoXIBwcyeGfXrXx|text=The Complete Music of Star Wars: The Old Republic|channel=channel/UCBGBXQmTRZ0uwfxvcCMfz_A|name=swtheoldrepublic|parameter=playlist?list|nobackup=1}}

Results in:

YouTube The Complete Music of Star Wars: The Old Republic on the swtheoldrepublic YouTube channel (backup link not available)

For a channel (External links):

{{YouTube|channel=channel/UCBGBXQmTRZ0uwfxvcCMfz_A|name=swtheoldrepublic}}

Results in:

YouTube swtheoldrepublic on YouTube (backup link needs confirmation (channel/UCBGBXQmTRZ0uwfxvcCMfz_A))

See also