Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Swansong

Swansong by Josh Woodward

The Ashes nomination was withdrawn until the article itself could be beefed up with sources and content. This song, however, appears on the article for Josh Woodward himself, and achieved notability by being selected as part of the Ubuntu 10.10 Free Culture Showcase.

• Nominate and Support: Sven Manguard Wha? 04:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
• Support Zginder 2011-01-31T14:31Z (UTC)
• When and where was it recorded? How is the free use attested? Tony (talk) 11:34, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Whoops, I could have sworn I did that. Fixed now. Answers are "October 2009" and "on his website" by the way. Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 19:27, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
• Listened to this a ouple times now.. I's not my sort of thing, but the roduction values are good, and the artist notable, so Support. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:49, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support Production quality is good, and it illustrates well the output by an artist. I'm not entirely sure about Notability as he appears to be an "Indy" artist with some (albeit minor) claim to fame. However, he does have a page and that's been in place for a while so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Major Bloodnok (talk) 21:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
  • I was deriving the notability of the song from it being released with Ubuntu 10.10. I'm really not an Ubuntu person, but I assumed that was a big deal. If it isn't, we'll have to take that into account then. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I have used Ubuntu in the past, although I didn't know about this competition they were running. It seems to be a big deal (at least in terms of linux OSes) and notable for that reason. I'd be wary of adding any more tracks by this artist until he became more notable for other reasons (a hit single, major signing to a record label, etc).Major Bloodnok (talk) 23:06, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I'd certainly say that the songs should be uploaded and used in articles on the albums. I agree we should be cautions about over-promoting one artist of relatively low notability, but I would say if any of his songs end up illustrating articles not related to him - for instance, ones on a certain style of music - and remained stable there, that those songs would be featurable. Also, if he does covers of any public domain songs, those might be featurable as well. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:10, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Support Making it to the Ubuntu 10.10 Free Culture Showcase is no small feat. Add to the fact that (correct me if I'm wrong) little to no featured sounds of this genre (or any freely licensed songs for that matter), this is definitely a good pick. --haha169 (talk) 04:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

• N.B. Tweaked things to prepare this for promotion. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Promoted Josh Woodward - Swansong.ogg --(X! · talk)  · @138  ·  02:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)