Template:Externalvideo
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[edit] Purpose
If a video is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia, it may be appropriate to use {{externalvideo}} to provide a direct link to download the video of sufficient quality and a (referenced) description of what the video shows.
{{externalvideo}} should be removed as soon as an adequate video is available in commons. (It is not adequate if the video in commons is not of sufficient quality.)
{{externalvideo}} can be used multiple times in an article, and each implementation of {{externalvideo}} can be used to link to more than one video.
[edit] Usage
{{externalvideo
| align =
| width =
| video1 =
| video2 =
| ...
}}
[edit] Parameters
- align: Alignment of the container box on the page - left/right/center (optional)
- width: Width of the container box, e.g. 300px (optional)
- video1, video2, etc.: Link to external video with description. Try to link to the URL of the video itself rather than the page that contains it if possible. and add a reference with a link to the whole page where the video is from and the date when you retrieved it
[edit] Example
{{externalvideo
| align = right
| width = 300px
| video1 = [http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/flight77-1.mpg Surveillance camera video of Flight 77 crashing into Pentagon] released by the U.S. Defense Department <ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/ 14 February 2008</ref>
| video2 = [http://www.911docs.net/american_77_final_maneuver.php Animation of Flight 77's final maneuver] created by the National Transportation Safety Board<ref>http://www.911docs.net/ 14 February 2008</ref>
}}
[edit] Other templates for linking external media
There is a family of three templates to link external media: {{externalimage}}, {{externalvideo}} and {{externalaudio}}
