Inkipedia:Proposals/Audio Use Policy

It would behoove you to read the full policy draft here and prior conversations on the subject here.

This proposal seeks to end the very, very long discussion about audio use on Inkipedia. The highlights of the proposal are as follows:


 * Do not host the OST in its complete entirety, only using up to 30 seconds for samples for music and audio.
 * Audio must be taken directly from the game and not other sources like YouTube or Splatune.
 * New audio must be in the MP3 format under specific quality guidelines (128kbps).
 * Audio files must have accompanying text to see use.
 * Files not meeting the policy (including old, non-truncated versions of files) will be deleted.

Thank you for your time. Trig - 15:11, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Start date: 2023-12-23

End date: 2024-01-13

Support

 * 1) Been in favor of this since it was first being discussed, full support.  15:13, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 2) Urgent support. The current careless anything-goes attitude with music uploads, to the point several regular editors have described relying on the wiki to download the OST for personal use rather than accessing it on-site as encyclopedic material, is a DMCA takedown waiting to happen. Other NIWA wikis notably have received DMCA takedowns from Nintendo within recent memory; please see Mario Wiki's audio policy in particular to compare how seriously other large independent wikis consider this issue. It is overall unprofessional and not wiki-like to allow full unaltered uploads of specifically audio and music, especially when it comes to files we directly know to suffer strict takedowns from the copyright holders on a regular basis on other platforms. What will happen if we do receive music takedown requests? Is that going to be the wake-up call to how urgently we need this policy in place? With this policy we have the option of instating preventative measures to ensure the wiki is legally in the clear with regards to copyrighted music. Yoshifan52 (talk) 21:12, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) My stance has not changed.  15:46, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 2) | My opinion still stands as strong as ever. It's not changing.
 * 3) I still stand by most of the points I made in the previous proposal on this topic. I would also like to add that a lot of the pages for the OST, especially for Splatoon 3, are stubs/extremely short. Unless there are people who will be committed to not only creating the new audio files, but also expanding these pages, I find this to overall be a negative change for the wiki.  16:00, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 4) My stance still is not changing.   22:26, 23 December 2023 (UTC)