Template:Externalvideo

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.

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

Other templates for linking external media
There is a family of three templates to link external media: externalimage, externalvideo and externalaudio