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 nomination

Nominations are now created as subpages.

  • Create a new subpage named   Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/ExampleName
    • The sub-page name should usually be the name of the file. If the file has been nominated before you may need to use '<filename> 2'. Likewise, removal candidate pages should generally be called '<filename> removal'.
  • Copy the following content into the new blank subpage:
    • Do not change this portion of text at all: {{subst:PAGENAME}}
===[[Wikipedia:{{subst:PAGENAME}}|ExampleName]]===

{{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>
  • Add   {{Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/ExampleName}}   to the top of the list in the New nominations section of this page.
  • Add  {{FSC}}  to the nominated sound's page. This inserts the featured sound candidate template, to let the original contributor and other interested parties know that the sound is up for voting.

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

  • If you approve of a sound, write Support followed by your reasons.
  • If you oppose a nomination, write Oppose followed by your reasons. Where possible, objections should provide a specific rationale that can be addressed.
    • To change your vote, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.


[edit] Nominations

Place nominations in this section. Please add new nominations at the top of the list.

[edit] Etherea

Etherea (Colin Ross)

An example of new age music, performed on the recorder, from the 1995 album Refractions by Colin Ross
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This is a high-quality example of new age/contemporary instrumental music by a professional musician, featuring many of the characteristics noted in the article (ambient sounds of birds and percussion; traditional instrumentation combined with modern audio effects; a generally relaxing composition that demonstrates world music influences). I've added it to New Age music and recorder.

  • Nominate and support. - ragesoss (talk) 05:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
  • oppose. This recording is by a performer/composer who does not appear to be notable enough to have an article in Wikipedia. As such, its inclusion in New Age music and recorder do not relate to any discussion in the articles and makes this nomination look like a bit of self-promotion by the artist. I would consider changing my opinion to "support" with some notable third party citations that back the claims that this particular composition/recording is illustrative of the characteristics noted in the articles, and well cited text put the recording into a larger context in the articles. --☑ SamuelWantman 07:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
    • The performer is not notable (well, it actually might be possible to scrape together enough sources to avoid deletion, but it'd be tough). However, it's not likely that a better free example of new age music will be available from a notable musician. I just included it in recorder because there were no sounds in that article, but I think it's relevance to new age music is self-evident. There won't be any sources explicitly stating how it exemplifies typical characteristics of new age, since as far as I know there is nothing published about this song.--ragesoss (talk) 12:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
      • The problem is that if nothing can be said about it that can be backed up with citations, its relevance to the topic is not self-evident. The inclusion of the sample implies that it is a good example of New Age music. Since that assertion cannot be backed up with citations, it is original research to make the claim or the implication of the claim. I believe this recording should just continue to be available in commons but be removed from the two articles where it now resides. I'm willing to hear other opinions about this first. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 19:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
        • I don't think a piece of original music present as an example of a certain genre is any more original research than a photograph of a flower or insect used as an example of a taxon is original research. We don't demand citations explicitly identifying the subject of a photograph as the claimed species, but instead rely on user knowledge and matching the image to distinguishing characteristics of what it is claimed to depict. The same, it seems to me, should apply to sounds. But I'm interested to hear what others have to say as well. (Obviously the new age music article itself could use more citations, but the basic descriptions pass the smell test.) --ragesoss (talk) 22:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Support—The composition, performance and recording all have merit. I don't see a problem with respect to OR. TONY (talk) 09:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)



[edit] Étude Op. 10, No. 10 (Chopin)

Étude Op. 10, No. 10 (Chopin)

Performed by Martha Goldstein on an 1851 Erard piano.
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Appears in: Étude Op. 10, No. 10 (Chopin)

An excellent recording of a notoriously difficult piece. In fact, all of the recordings of the Chopin études on Wikipedia are very good, but this one stands out for me.

  • Comment Given that very few of the current Featured Sounds (or indeed any sound file across Wikipedia) satisfy Criterion 4 (the length of the file is in the caption), I am choosing not to put the length in the caption. Instead I suggest we change the Listen template to do it automatically and have that small requirement instantly satisfied. Centy – reply• contribs – 03:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment Per criterion 5 the sound file should link to the musical score. Zginder 2008-04-16T16:43Z (UTC)
  • Oppose until MOS breach fixed (unspaced en dash for year range) and date of recording/performance, and the place, too, if known. Good performance; pity the upper range of the piano is so lacking in sonority. TONY (talk) 13:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment I fixed the MOS violation. I will try to contact original nominater and uploader for the missing criterion 5 information. Zginder 2008-05-01T13:24Z (UTC)



[edit] Nominations for removal

Place nominations for removal in this section. Please add new nominations at the top of the list.

None, currently. Image:Charpentier - Super Flumina Babylonis.ogg recording someone else's performance doesn't give you rights over it. The performers have rights too. I don't believe this is appropriately licensed. Secretlondon 06:13, 4 November 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:

  • Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FSC/subpage:
    {{FSCresult|Promoted|Example.ogg}} --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FSCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
  • Move the nomination entry to the bottom of the June archive. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Feature sound candidates/Sound name}} from this page to the bottom of the archive.
  • Replace the {{FSC}} tag on the file description page with {{FeaturedSound|"Sound name"}} ((the "Sound name" parameter will link back to the FSC discussion)) and remove the {{FSC}} tag from any other suggested versions.
  • Add the file to Wikipedia:Featured sounds and update the count.
  • Add the file to Template:Announcements/New featured pages (newest on top).
  • Add a notice to Wikipedia:Goings-on using [[Wikipedia:Featured Sound/ExampleSoundName|ExampleSoundName]]
  • If an alternate version of the originally nominated file is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Featured Sound version, as opposed to the original.
  • Notify the nominator and uploader on their talk pages.


When NOT promoted, perform the following:

  • Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FSC/subpage:
    {{FSCresult|Not promoted| }} --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FSCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
  • Move the nomination entry to the bottom of the June archive. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Feature sound candidates/Sound name}} from this page to the bottom of the archive.
  • Remove the {{FSC}} tag from the file and any other suggested versions.


When DEMOTED, perform the following:

  • Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FSC/subpage:
    {{FSCresult|Demoted| }} --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FSCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
  • Move the nomination entry to the bottom of the June archive. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Feature sound candidates/Sound name}} from this page to the bottom of the archive.
  • Replace the {{FeaturedSound|"Sound name"}} tag on the file with {{FormerFeaturedSound|"Sound name"}}.