Template talk:Infobox Episode

Standardizing VOD links to YouTube instead of blogs
I noticed that there isn't standard formatting for video links in the 'VOD' parameter. I think in this day and age, people expect video links involving youtube to go directly to a youtube URL. I would like to propose that a new infobox parameter be created for Geek & Sundry and critrole.com links called something like 'Website Video Link', and that the 'VOD' parameter be reserved solely for YouTube links. This also means the template documentation '|VOD= Link to video, preferably to G&S's website (Optional but desired)' should be changed (it seems outdated anyway given that it doesn't even reference critrole.com). I wonder, was this blog link policy created due to Gunpowder Plot being split over two videos? If so, I don't think it should be a problem in that episode's infobox to list two VOD links to youtube instead of one. Should this change be acceptable, I can programmatically add the to-be-named new blog video link parameter and change the VOD parameter to entirely youtube links, as well as fix the link formatting for 23 episodes (including Manifold_Morals) where it's supposed to be a bare url but is instead formatted as an external wikilink. SeiverEl (talk) 00:34, 22 November 2021 (UTC)