Talk:Acoustic Atlas

Acoustic Atlas
Acoustic Atlas
Type of project	Audio archive
Products	Animal sounds and environmental soundscapes
Location	Montana State University Library, U.S.
Founder	Jeff Rice; Kenning Arlitsch; Doralyn Rossmann; Steve Hunts; Jim Espeland
Established	February 1, 2013
Website	acousticatlas.org

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A fact from Acoustic Atlas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Acoustic Atlas.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Evrik (talk) 19:53, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park? Source: "In 2013, Yellowstone National Park partnered with the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University to make a collection of public domain sounds from all around the park available online." HuffPost, 2017
- ALT1: ... that the Montana State University Library's Acoustic Atlas aims to archive the dialects of birds from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem? Source: "The MSU site hosts a variety of sounds made by wildlife...'Even birds will sing in dialects. So if you have a recording of a white-crowned sparrow, that species can have a different sound signature only a mile away. So even if you make one recording of a white-crowned sparrow, you’re not going to have all of the sounds it makes.'" State Journal-Register, 2013
- ALT2: ... that the Acoustic Atlas includes sounds made by ants being held between a volunteer's teeth? Source: "It also contains interviews, such as the odd one with Howard Spangler explaining how he has learned to record ant sounds by holding the insects gently between his teeth." Researchers recording the sounds of Yellowstone
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Khalil Farah

Created by Kenninga (talk), Merrilee (talk), and Dreamyshade (talk). Nominated by Dreamyshade (talk) at 00:13, 29 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Added alternative (catchier?) ALT2 hook suggestion. Crum375 (talk) 17:20, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'm not sure though whether Acoustic Atlas includes the actual ant sounds that the person recorded, since the newspaper article just describes the interview with the person about it. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:19, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be the actual online record in the Acoustic Atlas, which includes both the ant sounds as well as the collector's voice-over describing the process. Will add this link to the article. Crum375 (talk) 16:55, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What a fun read, and what a great idea. For the purposes of DYK, this is long enough, new enough (moved to mainspace on 29 July), well referenced, and free from copyvio. All of the hooks are interesting and cited; I personally prefer ALT2 and ALT0. Dreamyshade, it appears that you have more than 5 previous DYK credits which means you need to provide a QPQ review (i.e. review another nomination) for this nomination to proceed. 97198 (talk) 10:28, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]