Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates

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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Featured content:

• Featured articles
• Featured pictures
• Featured lists
• Featured portals
• Featured topics
• Featured sounds ←

Featured sound tools:

• Featured sound criteria
• Featured sound candidates
• Featured sound log
• Former featured sounds

[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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<br style="clear:both;" />

<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.

No nominations pending

[edit] Nominations for removal

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

[edit] The Entertainer

Original nomination

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)

• Here's a link to a midi recording that follows the score. The version at Mutopia also follows the score. Since that one is already linked from the article there really isn't a need to post a recording at Wikipedia. --Samuel Wantman 23:45, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Many music articles on Wikipedia have external links to original scores and MIDI files (example articles: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi); and Dieterich Buxtehude). However, it's still benefical for people to upload their own performances to complement the external links. --IE 18:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Performance is one thing, rendition is another. I don't think Wikipedia should be a repository for everyone's creative rendition of musical creations. That would be a Utube for music and not an encyclopedia. If you want to document the scholarship behind the ways you varied the performance from the score, I'll reconsider. By the way, It isn't that I don't like your performance, I do. --Samuel Wantman 18:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

You have raised some good points. You can de-list it.--IE 13:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• I reinstate what I said in the discussion; that the file info needs to include exactly what was changed, and as long as it's not too drastic (the equivalent of removing spots from an old photograph), the sound can be promoted to featured status. If not, then the creator may need to be contacted for this information. --Tewy 03:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• Stronly Support the sound's delisting: more significantly than minor melodic embellishments, ragtime doesn't have a swing feel (it's march derived) Leon 06:10, 4 April 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 April 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).
• 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 April 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 April 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"}}.