Template:External music video/doc

Most music videos cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia because of copyright restrictions. However, it is permissible to link to videos if they are hosted on a site that has licensed them for online viewing. Use this template to add a music video link to an infobox created by {{Infobox song}}, {{Infobox album}}, or other appropriate infobox.

Usage

This template is used with the |misc= parameter of the infobox template. It should not be used on its own. If this template is substituted, it will return a cleaned-up copy of itself with unnecessary parameters removed and deprecated parameters replaced. Parameter indentation will also automatically be fixed.

Code

Music video

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">{{Infobox song ... | misc = {{subst:External music video

| type        = 
| header      = 
| 1           = 

}} </syntaxhighlight>

type

Enter single to produce a khaki header or song for light blue for other Infobox song types, so that the headers will have a consistent color.

header

Enter the text for the header. If not used, the default is Music video. For no header, enter |header=no. For multiple music video links, set the first to |header=Music videos and the succeeding links to |header=no, so only one header for all will be created (see Example 2).

1

Enter the video link, plus the song title in quote marks, followed by the name of the video site (see Example 1). For YouTube links, use {{YouTube}}, instead of [http: ...] (see Example 2).

Examples

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">{{Infobox song ... | misc = {{subst:External music video

| type        = song
| header      = Music video
| 1           = "Hurt" at CMT.com

}} </syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">{{Infobox song ... | misc = {{subst:External music video

| type        = single
| header      = Music videos
| 1           = Template:YouTube

}}{{subst:External music video

| type = single
| header = no
| 1 = Template:YouTube
}}

</syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">{{Infobox album ... | misc =

Music videosTemplate:YouTube Template:YouTube Template:YouTube Template:YouTube

}} </syntaxhighlight>

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:External music video in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for External music video

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "description": "Link to the internet location holding the video", "example": "| 1 = Template:YouTube", "type": "string", "default": "Empty", "required": true }, "header": { "label": "Header", "description": "Header text", "example": "Music video", "type": "string", "default": "Music video", "autovalue": "Music video", "required": true }, "Upper caption": { "autovalue": "", "type": "string", "deprecated": "Use header field" }, "type": { "description": "Type field - Enter the same type specified in the infobox", "example": "type=single", "type": "string", "default": "Empty", "autovalue": "", "required": true }, "Type": { "deprecated": "Use type (lowercase T)", "type": "string" } }, "description": "External music video template", "format": "block" } </templatedata>