Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/NorthAmericanDialTone

NorthAmericanDialTone

I was going through the dial tone article and found this. It is short, but following Shepard-Risset glissando it think it qualifies.

• Nominate - Zginder 2008-07-19T02:13Z (UTC)
• Comment the Shepard-Risset glissando is a notable acoustic illusion, and hard to find elsewhere. The dial tone is much simpler, however: What makes it special? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:05, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
• Where in the criteria does it say the recording must be special? Zginder 2008-07-23T02:27Z (UTC)
• Perhaps the question is, why should this recording be featured? I could imagine a sound collage of dial tones from all around the world being featured. So perhaps the criteria should be "Content. The recording content is noteworthy, interesting, engaging and useful for academic study", which in this case would not be the case. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 06:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral Should be longer, at least. And I'm on the fence about whether it's distinctive enough to be encyclopedic. Should we treat this type of sound as analogous to featured vector graphics? Durova^Charge! 08:04, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

If we can get it a bit longer, then we could look into it further. There may well be a case for its inclusion, but the case would have to be explicitly made. But it's not going to happen when the recording is less than a second long. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose—I don't see how this could conceivably be considered among our best work. It's boring, too short, not notable. Tony (talk) 13:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose but Support as part of a dial tone collage: If this were to be put with different international dial tones to show the difference between them (and maybe made a bit longer) it would be FS-worthy, I believe...... Dendodge .. Talk^Contribs 10:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted --MZMcBride (talk) 16:13, 15 August 2008 (UTC)