User:Tony1/Draft of revised featured sound criteria
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A featured sound file is a musical performance, an environmental field recording or a voice recording that exemplifies our very best work. In addition to the requirements for all sound files, it has the following attributes.
- Public domain / free license. It is available in the public domain or under a free license. Fair use recordings and musical performances that use compositions or settings under fair use are ineligible.
- Technical quality. It is of high fidelity and is free of technical faults, such as unintended noise and distortion, and sonic and compression artifacts; the balance, reverberation, frequency response and stereophony are of a high standard.
- Musical performance. It is of a high standard.
- Value added. The file is not merely ornamental, and helps readers to understand the topic of an article. It is used in at least one article, where it is supported by the text and, if appropriate, reference citations on the file description page.
- Caption. The sound is displayed with an informative, well-written caption, including the duration of the file.
- Sound description page. It contains an extended description of the file, including:
- (a) a description of the subject;
- (b) the date and venue of the recording, where they are recoverable;
- (c) the name(s) of the recordist/producer, and for historical and field recordings, a brief description of the recording equipment, where known;
- (d) any editing that has been applied to the excerpt by the uploader, such as noise reduction by the uploader (aside from obvious fade ups and fade downs at the start and end), and by others, where that information is recoverable;
- (e) for a musical performance, the name and years of the composer (and the arranger, where relevant), the year of composition (and the arrangement, where relevant), the name(s) of the performer(s) or, for an ensemble, the name of the group and, where relevant, the conductor and soloist;
- (f) where available, links to a musical score in digital format;
- (g) for a voice recording of linguistic text, unless inappropriate, a transcript or a link to such a transcript; and
- (h) where a recording has been released into the public domain or has been transferred to a free license, the name of the original owner and the date of release/transfer, if this information is recoverable.
Exceptions to Criteria 2 and 3 may be made for historical recordings, recordings musical recordings, and recordings made under unusual or extenuating circumstances. Spoken Wikipedia readings of articles are ineligible for nomination.
