User:Ravedave/FeaturedVideo

A featured video should:

1. Be of high quality. TODO: Expand & re-write. It should be sharp and of pleasing colour balance, contrast and brightness, free of compression artifacts (such as in highly packed MPEG files), burned-out highlights, image noise ("graininess"), and other distracting factors.
   • The exception to this rule is the rarity or importance of the video. The more historically-important a video is, or the rarer the content, the lower the quality that can be allowed. For example, the first video ever taken is of poor quality, but is one-of-a-kind.
2. Be of a high resolution. - TODO: decide minimum size - 640x480?
3. Be Wikipedia's best work. It should exemplify Wikipedia's very best work.
4. Have a free license. It should be available in the public domain or under a free license. Fair use images are not allowed. To check which category a particular license falls under, see the list at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags.
5. Add value to an article and help complete readers' understanding of an article in ways other media in the article does not. It is important that the encyclopedic value of the video be given priority over the artistic value of the video.
6. Be accurate. Supported by facts in the article or references cited on the image page.
7. Be pleasing to the eye. Created in a manner which best illustrates the subject of the image. The video should make a reader want to know more.
   • The same exception to the rule of high quality may be applied here. The more historically-important a video is, or the rarer or more significant its content, the less aesthetically-pleasing it may be.
8. Have a good caption. The video should be displayed with a descriptive, informative and complete caption. The description page should have an extended caption that is suitable for featuring the image on the Main Page.
9. Be neutral, A video should not put forward a particular agenda or point of view, but instead should illustrate the subject objectively.

TODO: any More?