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President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden[edit]

2011 - President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden (9:28)
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses America and the world that Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces.

This is for sure going to be a historic announcement. This is free for sure. I am just not sure if it fulfills FS criteria on the technical side, so hopefully someone can comment on that.

  • Nominate and support. —Chris!c/t 05:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support High quality, historically significant and important announcement. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 4:19pm • 06:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – the sound is very good, so am happy to support in that regard. However, there is a 720p version on YouTube, so surely that version would be the best video to use? NotFromUtrecht (talk) 08:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Is the one on Youtube of the same or higher quality? A larger version of the video would, however, be most welcome and if it is of similar quality, feel free to upload over this version. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 9:59pm • 11:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    The YouTube version as provided by the public domain download button was originally 26 MB and became 33.2 MB upon conversion. The HD version at WH.gov is 333 MB, and I don't expect that its conversion would result in a file under Commons' 100 MB size limit. Does Wikipedia allow for uploads in excess of 100 MB? If it does, would it be benficial to the encyclopedia to use the higher-resolution version instead of this one? — Fourthords | =/\= | 17:14, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't realise that HD video files were so large – probably best, as others have said, to keep this version for the sake of conserving bandwidth. As an aside, it would be nice to have the HD version on Wikimedia Commons at some point, since if bandwidth/storage continue getting cheaper, in a few years 300mb will be a trivially small file size. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 21:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It's 100MB globally, unfortunately :( —James (Talk • Contribs) • 6:09pm • 08:09, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could it be uploaded in three or four parts? Adabow (talk · contribs) 08:48, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Even if it is only a few hours old, it is still hugely significant historically, and good quality. Anoldtreeok (talk) 08:46, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Sounds good, looks good and is a valuable addition to WP for EV and notability reasons. The size of the image on the file page is bigger, and of higher quality than on this page. We could make that of an even higher quality by increasing the file size to closer to 100MB. I'm not sure we should though given the demands on WP bandwidth - 100MB is a limit, not a goal. The MP4 file on the White House page is 300MB or so. Major Bloodnok (talk) 16:49, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Nicolas M. Perrault 23:50, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note - User:Fourthords download and upload this. I did not do it myself.—Chris!c/t 18:28, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I was talking bets on how fast this would be nomed :P (I would !vote but I am waiting to get to close this) --Guerillero | My Talk 04:29, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Would ITN be willing to use this as the image on the main page? --Guerillero | My Talk 04:31, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Can the timed text be competed? I should have cropped version at 4 by 3 with 720p, 480p, 360p, and 240p uploaded tomorrow. But that should not change the result here. Zginder 2011-05-03T04:35Z (UTC)
  • Support per comments above, this is really high quality, Sadads (talk) 21:53, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment shouldn't this file be included in other articles such as Presidency of Barack Obama and Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama (2011).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:54, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Landmark announcement of historical significance. With respect to all the other nominations, I think this one should take precedence. It is timely and is of global interest. Rubywine (talk) 22:27, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to ignore the 7 day wait period and snow close this. At 9 supports there is little reason to keep this going for two more days and miss the signpost for this week --Guerillero | My Talk 02:06, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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