Template talk:Externalvideo

Policy

This seems to be a perfect template for linking to music videos on external sites. What is the policy for doing this? Is it acceptable to link to a music video on the artist's official channel on Youtube or on a label's website pr even on Yahoo Music? Mahanga^Talk 21:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

According to my understanding, that is permitted as long as the video is legally licensed (which would exclude most of the stuff on YouTube). See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs#Lyrics_and_music_videos, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs#External_links, and Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking_to_copyrighted_works for more info on this issue. Kaldari (talk) 23:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the links, Kaldari. I got it now. :) Mahanga^Talk 03:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Bad idea

Please see the discussion at Template talk:Externalimage#Bad idea regarding use of this and related external media templates. ~MDD4696 03:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)