Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates
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Featured sounds is a list of sounds that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being so striking to the ear that users will want to read the accompanying article. Exemplifying the idea of audio as the "medium of the imagination", the sounds featured on Wikipedia:Featured sounds should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article. Sounds that are striking but do not illustrate an article may in future become featured on the Wikimedia Commons, but there is currently no mechanism set up for this. If you believe a sound meets the criteria to be featured, please add it below to the New nominations section. Conversely, if you believe that a sound should be unfeatured, add it to the Nominations for removal section. For listing, if a sound is listed here for seven days with four or more supporting votes (including the nominator if it was not a self-nomination), and the general consensus is in its favor, it can be added to a Wikipedia:Featured sounds list. If necessary, decisions about close votes will be made on a case-by-case basis. See Wikipedia:Media for some information on dealing with audio on Wikipedia. For a general list of sounds on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Sound/list.
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[edit] Procedure[edit] How to add your nominationNominations are now created as subpages.
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{{Listen
|filename = Name of file.ogg
|title = Title of this file
|description = The description of this file
|format = [[Ogg]]}}
Add your reasons for nominating it here;
say what article it appears in, and who created the recording.
*Nominate and '''support'''. - ~~~~
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<noinclude>[[Category:Featured sound nominations]]</noinclude>
If you have problems formatting your nomination, someone else will fix it, don't worry! If you wish to simply add your nomination to this page without creating the subpage, that is OK as someone else will create the subpage. The important piece of information is the pointer to the sound, and the reason for the nomination. [edit] Supporting and opposing
[edit] NominationsPlace nominations in this section. Please add new nominations at the top of the list. No nominations pending [edit] Nominations for removalPlace nominations for removal in this section. Please add new nominations at the top of the list. [edit] The Entertainer
I find the rendition to be very unencyclopedic. It is very far from the score of the piece, and many liberties were taken with the performance. None of this was discussed in the nomination, yet even the performer of the file admits the alterations and had concerns about its suitability as an audio document. If we are going to promote music recordings, there should be some standards involved in how they are performed. First, I would say that if a recording is for an article about a scored work, the performance should follow the score, and only add things that are commonly added as part of an established tradition for the genre. Second, the performing style should be documented and cited. This implies that there should be scholarship that justifies and explains how the score was interpreted. So using Beethoven's fifth symphony as an example, there might be a performance on original instruments using performance practices from the early 19th century, and/or one on modern instruments using current performance practices, but not a version arranged for jazz band! Someone unfamiliar with "The Entertainer" is not going to be aware of the liberties that were taken (tempos variations, added syncopation, added improvisation, altered harmonizations, etc...) This might be perfectly acceptable as a performance, but not as part of an encyclopedia article. It is analogous to digitally retouching a photograph to change the appearance of a portrait that accompanies a biography, adding wrinkles, changing the hair color and straightening crooked teeth. I'm nominating it for removal of featured status, but I hope there can also be discussion of the broader issue of setting some encyclopedic standards for music files at Wikipedia talk:Featured_sound_candidates#The Entertainer. --Samuel Wantman 09:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nominations older than 7 days - decision time!Nominations in this category are older than seven days and are soon to be closed. Comments and discussion will still be accepted until closing of the nomination. Old nominations should be archived when they are removed from this page. When PROMOTED, perform the following:
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