Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1142365-20150705204625

&lt;youtube> tags have for a while now autouploaded videos that were embedded using them, but this could be worked around by adding a pipe either side of the video identifier like such:

|dQw4w9WgXcQ|

Now, this doesn't work, and when the page is saved with youtube tags formatted like this, it just inserts &lt;nowiki> tags either side.

So the question is, is there still a way of using &lt;youtube> tags without having the video automatically uploaded? Not all wikis appreciate having off-topic videos uploaded, but that seems to be the tradeoff if users want to have off-topic videos on their userpages, unless some template is used to invoke the standard YouTube embed HTML.

Another question which has most likely been answered before is: why? Forcing uploads of videos is totally unnecessary like this. If someone is using a &lt;youtube> tag, it's not necessary to go and autoupload a video. All uploads should be done with a user's knowledge. Is there any reason why this has to happen? Surely this just interferes with Wikia's desire to have video repositories for various subjects?

Any answers, ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you for reading 