You mean as a source for WP articles? Or the feature? If it's the former, yes, though a third-party source is preferable. If the latter, WP:NOTFORUM. InfiniteNexus (talk) 21:29, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The template currently does not support linking to YouTube channels via their handles though it could be modified to support such via something like |handle= (much as it currently supports |user= and |custom=). —Uzume (talk) 21:38, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't the dumb link to [[YouTube]] constitute MOS:OVERLINKING for many years already? Just imagine a sane human who doesn't know what YouTube is. — Mike Novikoff 04:15, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please link to an article where this is a problem. There are new people coming on to the internet every day, and some of them have not heard of YouTube. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:03, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The article that I was editing by the time I thought of it was this. Wouldn't these same newbies be confused when they don't know on what link to click? (Even worse: to tap. And even if they click with a mouse, they haven't learned a middle button yet).Not to mention how this irritates the experienced users. — Mike Novikoff 21:13, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
YouTube appears to be now 404ing /user/CHANNEL_NAME links, which should now just be /CHANNEL_NAME on the YouTube domain. See for example these template invocations that are broken but barelinks work fine:
It may be beneficial to allow the use of archived links for videos that have been deleted. InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How to use url
i want to put url for a music video but that url start with https://youtu.be/, and this template also not supporting that url.is there any alternatives. --KEmel49 (talk) 19:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
youtu.be links are blacklisted on Wikipedia due to spam. You'll need to convert them to youtube.com links. (If you don't know how to do that, just replace https://youtu.be/ with https://youtube.com/watch?v=.) InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:08, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I overlooked what talk page I was on. If you're using this template, you just need the video ID, i.e. the part after the URL (yXY-NxGYxlg). But Done. InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]