Wikipedia:Featured sound criteria
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- Is of high quality. It is of high fidelity and technical quality, free of noise and distortion, sonic artifacts and compression artifacts. Musical performances should be executed with competence.
- This requirement holds strongest for contemporary recordings made under controlled conditions (i.e. musical performances). However, exceptions can be made for recordings taken under extenuating circumstances.
- Is among Wikipedia's best work. It is a musical performance, environmental field recording or historical recording that exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work. Spoken Wikipedia readings of articles are outside the scope of this project.
- Has a free license. It is available in the public domain or under a free license. Fair use recordings, or musical performances that employ compositions or settings under fair use are not allowed.
- Adds value to an article and helps readers to understand an article.
- Is accurate. It is supported by facts in the article or references cited on the file description page.
- Has a good caption. The sound is displayed with a descriptive, informative and complete caption. The sound description page has an extended description that gives a sense of the file for users who cannot play or hear it; the page also includes or links to the musical score (if available in digital format) or transcript, as appropriate.
