Commons:Deletion requests/File:Neural-Correlates-of-Natural-Human-Echolocation-in-Early-and-Late-Blind-Echolocation-Experts-pone.0020162.s012.ogg

just a click; like the other audio files in Category:Audio files of brain, just polluting categories and making them near useless Prototyperspective (talk) 12:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am unsure but I will make a case for this 1-second, single click audio. It is from the 2011 scientific paper https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020162 and part of a set of other click sounds. This particular click was a tool used in the research, and in that context, that scientific paper must have it documented somehow and associated with the paper for scientific reproducibility.

The original paper has 13 audio files associated with it. They are all documented with human-written prose explanations. I checked a few, and outside the context of the research, the ones I checked where just clicks.

For reusability in Wikimedia Commons or elsewhere, this audio file has low value. Historically it could have some higher value, especially in the contemporary context that scientific papers before 2011 could not easily include supplementary audio files, and almost never included anything with Creative Commons licensing.

I agree with @Prototyperspective: that if we have a lot of these audio files, then it only pollutes the category. I do not think we need more such examples. I think it makes sense to keep some example of science files from the 2010s, considering how unusual that practice was at that time. This could be that example, then we make a note that the category does not need more of the same. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:46, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]