In the past, I've fixed some dead videos by uploading replacement videos onto youtube and using that embed (when I couldn't find an embeddable source of comparable quality elsewhere). I felt a little weird, wasn't sure if that would be some sort of "self-link", since I was getting a star point for fixing somebody else's video using a video that I uploaded. But I guess it didn't feel weird enough to ask Sift Talk if something like this has been discussed before.

Anyway, now one of my own videos is dead, and I think I saved a copy of the video to my hard drive when I submitted it to the sift. This puts me in a much weirder situation. It would be very easy to just upload the video to youtube and be done with it, but then I would have a video on here that was submitted by my youtube account, even though the original video wasn't mine.

What am I to do, sift? I don't want to be all gross and self-linky.