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This template is used to create an external link to YouTube in the ==External links== section. It may also be used for other YouTube links such as those in {{External media}}. This is not a citation template. Use {{cite AV media}} to provide bibliographic citations in footnotes.
If there is a question to a YouTube video's validity or appropriateness as a reference, alternatives include using the {{cite episode}} or {{cite AV media}} templates, citing the original media without the use of any link.
The easiest way to start citing on Wikipedia is to see a basic example. The example here will show you how to cite a newspaper article using the {} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations). Copy and paste the following immediately after what you want to reference:
adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates, or removing citation templates from an article that uses them consistently; changing where the references are defined, e.g., moving reference definitions in the reflist to the prose, or moving reference definitions from the prose into the reflist.
For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing <ref> at the front of the citation and </ref> at the end. . Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a <ref></ref> button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will ...
Provides a box with a direct link to media hosted off of Wikipedia Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status title title Optional text to replace the automatically calculated title Unknown optional topic topic Optional text field that will appear above the media links Unknown optional caption caption Optional caption text to put underneath the header image ...
Many of these templates can create anchors that allow links from reference templates that are placed in-text with the content to the full citation in the reference list. These links are a convenience and are not a requirement; the use of reference and citation templates is also not required.
If you are using the inline reference citation style in your article (using <ref> tags to create footnotes), then these templates would go inside the <ref> tags as follows: <ref>{{cite book|author=...}}</ref> See full list of citation templates at Wikipedia:Citation templates. For other templates, see Wikipedia:Template namespace.