[edit] Message to you, dear Wikipedia editor, now Featured Sounds is dormant
Hi there. You have come across this page because hopefully you are interested in the use of sound recordings on Wikipedia. Sadly the Featured Sounds project is currently inactive and dormant. However, there are still plenty of opportunities to add sound recordings and video media to Wikipedia articles. There are many articles which would benefit from a suitable audio or video file which would illustrate the subject of the page. If you are able to use any of the resources created or found by the Featured Sounds project and use them on Wikipedia's pages, please do. Please add public domain, or other suitably licensed, media to the Wikimedia Commons or in fact to Wikipedia itself; I'm sure that all those editors who have spent time on this project would encourage you.
Who knows, maybe you can help raise the profile of media files in Wikipedia and contribute to the creation of a sustainable Featured Media project at some point in the future.
Thanks for your time. Ben (Major Bloodnok) (talk) 20:27, 13 November 2011 (UTC) (occasional contributor to this project)
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If you would like to see what the process page looked like please proceed hereClosing instructions
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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 become featured on the Wikimedia Commons.
If you believe a sound meets the criteria to be featured, please follow the instructions for nominating new sounds below. Conversely, if you believe a featured sound no longer meets the criteria, please follow the instructions for delisting below.
If a nomination:
- (i) has at least three !votes, including that of the original nominator, of which a supermajority (at least two-thirds) are in support
- (ii) has addressed all actionable shortcomings in relation to the Featured Sounds Criteria
- (iii) has been on this page at least seven days
then it may be added to the Featured sounds list. Nominations are allowed to run until such a consensus emerges. This process is overseen by the FS directors: Guerillero, M.O.X and X!.
See Wikipedia:Media for some information on dealing with audio on Wikipedia. For a general list of sounds on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Sound/list.
- To see recent changes, purge the page cache.
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Featured content:
Featured sound tools:
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Step 1: Evaluate
Evaluate the merit of a nomination against the featured sound criteria. Most users reference terms from this page when evaluating nominations.
- Does it have good encyclopedic value?
- Is the recording quality good for its age?
- How does it add to the articles on which it is included?
- Does it illustrate the subject appropriately?
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Step 2: Create a subpage
- Regular nominations
Create a page to place the sound on; this page needs to be a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. To create your own subpage, add a title for the sound you want to nominate in the form below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Memphis Blues) and click the "Create new nomination" button.
- Delists and replaces
To nominate an already-promoted featured sound to be delisted or to be replaced with a new file, use the following edit box:
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Step 3: Transclude and link
Add the newly created subpage to the top of the Featured sound candidate list (direct link). Use this format: {{Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/YOURSUBPAGE}}
- Add {{FSC|SUBPAGENAME}} 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.
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How to comment
- In regular nominations:
- If you think a sound would make a good featured sound, write Support followed by your reasons.
- If you think there's a problem with the nomination, write Oppose followed by your reasons. Where possible, objections should provide a specific rationale that can be addressed.
- In delist nominations:
- Use Delist to vote to remove the file from the featured sounds list.
- Use Delist and replace to indicate you wish it to be delisted, but then replaced with a proposed alternative.
- Use Keep to vote to keep the file as a featured sound.
- To change your vote, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.
Editing candidates
If you feel you could improve a candidate through noise reduction, click removal or other aesthetic modifications, please feel free to do so, but do not overwrite or remove the original. Instead, upload your edit with the same file name appending "edit" to the end, and list it with the original nomination. Edits should be appropriately captioned in sequential order (eg, Edit 1, Edit 2, etc) and describe the modifications that have been applied in the file's description.
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