Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/The Patriotic Song

The Patriotic Song

Performance of "Patrioticheskaya Pesnya" at the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin on 7 May 2000

I am nominating this video/sound as it demonstrates the usage of the former national anthem of Russia in one instances which is mandated by law. The video/sound is used at National_Anthem_of_Russia#Patrioticheskaya_Pesnya and at Patrioticheskaya Pesnya in the infobox, and comes from the Presidential Press and Information Office and is licenced under CC-BY-3.0. A performance of the singing of the current national anthem is found at File:Russian national anthem at Medvedev inauguration 2008.ogg and is already a featured sound. A video of an instrumental version of the current anthem is also a featured sound (File:Russian anthem at Victory Day Parade 2010.ogg)

Nominate and support. Russavia ^{I'm chanting as we speak} 12:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A much-needed illustration to the article. Informative, illustrative, and of a good quality.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 7, 2010; 14:27 (UTC)
Support and bonus points for sorting out the permission. Very informative material for the articles, and of a high standard. Bencherlite ^Talk 07:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning towards oppose. For a modern recording, it's not all that flash. The balance is OK, but the quality of the brass is just not great. Also, the players are not always in tune, amazingly. The documentation doesn't say where the recording was made, or who made it (Russian state TV?). The source is in cyrillic script; can we have a translation of the piped text in square brackets after it? The fact that it's freely available as a propaganda piece on the presidential website doesn't fill me with enthusiasm as to making this featured content on a WMF site. Tony (talk) 14:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - per Tony, the quality of the video is horrible, everything is blurry, the brass section is fuzzy and the percussion is just about the only thing that sticks out, the cymbals particularly. The piece has absolutely no balance. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 11:02am • 00:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Low quality, per above. Them From Space 06:55, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Low quality as above. This could be excused if the event itself was especially notable, and it is not clear that it is (although I suppose that is arguable).Major Bloodnok (talk) 07:55, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose not to pile on, but the quality is not there. Imzadi 1979 → 08:44, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Bencherlite ^Talk 16:38, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]