File talk:Nocover.png

Cover for 'H.A.T.E. U. by Mariah Carey
The single cover for HATE U is right here, http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iQ71MS6En_A/S1g9pMntH6I/AAAAAAAABRo/1twbz_YwzbA/s1600-h/H.A.T.E.U..png so Could somebody please post it as the photo? Thanks! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasingcordy213 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Cover for 'Bye Bye Boyfriend' by Fefe Dobson
editprotected I have the CD single and I want to post the HQ cover art on Wikipedia for others to see. Can I put up the cover please? JTW1994 (talk) 03:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just upload the image. Click on "Upload file" in the toolbox on the left-hand side of the page and follow the steps listed there.  Cheers.   lifebaka ++ 11:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Is the vandalism mentioned around this talk page actually not vandalism but plain user unawareness? ---sashman.

Cover for Woven Hand's Consider the Birds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Whctbfront.jpg for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Birds there's no cover right now and it's protected.

Murdered 23:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Cover for "Atrevete-te-te!"
i dont have rights to upload it

Protect this image?
I think this image should probably be protected as the original image found here. Any admins agree? --Anthony5429 00:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes - definitely. This article has already been vandalised several times now. --Anthony5429 23:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Protected. See Image talk:Nocover.gif for additional rationale. Tizio 17:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

True Faith 94
I uploaded the scan of my True Faith 94 cover. Being a newbie to wikipedia, I do not know how to change it or if I can even do it. The file name I uploaded is Truefaith94.jpg. --RacerCub68 14:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * 70.16.66.182Put up the album cover.


 * To add a cover image to an article, you do not need to edit this image. This image appears when a cover image is not specified. So instead, edit the article of the album itself to include the picture of the actual album cover. --Anthony5429 17:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

White and Nerdy
I recently found the cover image for the CD with "White and Nerdy," and if the admin wishes to have it, email me at davidliverett2004[*at*]yahoo.com, and I will mail it to him. This is the actual cover as derived from Wierd Al's web page. Also, It is not only a single, but it is also the first article on his "STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD" CD.


 * To add a cover image to an article, you do not need to edit this image. This image appears when a cover image is not specified. So instead, edit the article of the album itself to include the picture of the actual album cover. --Anthony5429 17:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Request categorization
This needs to go in Cat:Wikipedia image placeholders. –Unint 21:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Tizio 21:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Unprofessional and Unsightly
While I completely agree this must be protected, does it really have to be this ugly? I think just an image of "No Cover Available" in black on white would be better. Logicalhippo 18:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Korn's 8th studio album
I found the art for Korn's new album if the admins want it please email me at st3w13[*at*]gmail.com...I found it off a link from roadrunners blabbermouth

The Best Damn Thing
I found the cover art for avril lavignes new album "The Best Damn Thing" contact me here on The-Twin-Towers@hotmail.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Twin Towers (talk • contribs) 17:01, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Move to commons
The now-deleted Image:Nocover.gif has been moved to commons. I've copied this image across too, so that commons can use PNG instead of GIF.
 * Thank you for moving this over to Commons, but there is a reason to keep this image on Wikipedia: to keep vandals from altering it. It is protected here to prevent vandalism. On Commons, a vandal could upload a vandal image and vandalize all projects that use this high-risk image. I am sorry that I must deny this request. Jesse Viviano 04:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. Is there a way we can stop Image:Nocover.gif from being used on English Wikipedia then?  How about having a copy of this PNG version on commons too and having the GIF deleted? - Alex valavanis 10:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * As far as I remember, Weebot wasn't the author of this version; he uploaded the old version of this image, without the empty case in the background, which was then replaced by the current one. This is what I wrote on the (now deleted) Image talk:Nocover.gif:
 * The first version was uploaded by Weebot, but that was the version without the case (just a print: "no cover available"). The only updates I can find in the (deleted) history are by Speedway and Telecat, and I think it was the second who created this version. Tizio 12:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * File a deletion request on the Commons. Jesse Viviano 15:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Widely used images like this can be protected just fine on Commons too... ;) Obviously, do not delete this one before the commons version is protected but this should be on Commons so other projects that allow Fair use can use this image as a blank.--Nilfanion (talk) 18:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I did not know about any protection policy on Commons. If there is one, you make a good point, and it should be protected there, and an image page should be created here and protected so no vandal can upload a vandal image that would superseed the image on Commons. Jesse Viviano 18:28, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well Commons is very ad-hoc about things, the policy is generally unwritten there. However, Commons:Template:Protected image exists for this purpose. As Commons admins have increased in numbers lately, and there are many with dual-sysop status there and here, I think a move might be wise on this now. This matter probably should go to both ANs, and if both communities agree the stuff should be migrated. Oh and a technical issue, if a Commons file exists the non-existent image page here is upload-protected. To see what I mean, try uploading commons:Image:Wesley Clark USSOUTHCOM.JPEG to Image:Wesley Clark USSOUTHCOM.JPEG on a non-sysop account (admins can upload as normal).--Nilfanion (talk) 19:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Obituary Frozen Alive DVD Cover Art
I have the cover art but I can't put it on the page because it is protected. Can it be unprotected? Here it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Obituary-_Frozen_Alive.jpg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AltarsofMadness (talk • contribs) 07:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC).


 * I think you've come to the wrong page. Image:Nocover.png is a special image, automatically placed in infoboxes when there is no cover available.  It is used on thousands of pages and is protected for that reason.  Instead, you should edit the article you want the image to go in.  In the infobox section of the code, change the | Cover =  line to | Cover = Obituary-_Frozen_Alive.jpg.  See the documentation for more info about how to use album infoboxes. - Alex valavanis 09:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, I think I've just figured out what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to add an image to the discography at Obituary (band)?  There's no article for the album yet, so I don't think it's Fair use of copyright material unless you create the article about the album as well.


 * See WP:ALBUMS for instructions for how to create an article about an album
 * Create the article here
 * Remember to add Fair use rationale to the image of the cover art, or it will be deleted within a few days

If you're unsure, leave me a message and I'll give you a hand. - Alex valavanis 09:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

REDESIGN
Hi, I made a pic to replace this one. it has much better aesthetic appeal and quality, and would work great. I personally took the pic of the CD and photoshopped it a bit, and added the words, so it's all mine.

Consider ?

Personally I just think that the icon now uses a bland font, and is just random. I can edit this too if you like...



ASHTONZANECKI 04:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)==

Request from original uploader to mergeto Nocover.svg
Firstly, I am asking that the mergeto directly below this statement be moved to the protected Image:Nocover.png page.


 * ✅ Happy ‑ melon  14:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --Anthony5429 (talk) 01:02, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I am the original uploader of Nocover.png, and I am hereby requesting that the image be merged to Nocover.svg for the following reasons.


 * Nocover.svg uses a single, universally-understood question mark, rather than English words. This reason, coupled with the fact that it is hosted on the Wikimedia Commons (rather than simply the English Wikipedia), allows it to be used on all the Wikipemedia projects, regardless of language.


 * Nocover.svg is vectorised, meaning it is easily modified with no loss in quality, whereas, in Nocover.png, if there arose a need to edit the text No cover available, it would first be necessary to use image editing software to clone out the already-covered raster data, a process which is strictly estimative.


 * Because Nocover.svg is a vector graphic, its resolution is strictly nominal. In other words, if a higher- or lower- resolution version of this image were desired, the rescaling would not result in a loss of quality as it would with Nocover.png.

I will propose commencement of voting below.


 * Merge - as per my initial comments on the issue, found above. --Anthony5429 (talk) 13:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge as per nomination Do U(knome)?  yes...|or no  ·  05:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge - Per nom. Looks much more appealing than the current image. --  ¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤   11:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No Merge, unless I'm reading this wrong I prefer the Nocover.png image to the Nocover.svg because the PNG looks more professional. There would never be a need to create a higher resolution of this image because per Fair Use all album artwork needs to be low resolution, why would temporary album artwork ever need to be larger? The PNG is a relatively small file and does not "eat up" enough space to demand that a "universally accepted" version replace it. Furthermore, I highly doubt the question mark version is actually "universally" understood - perhaps by all Latin alphabet languages but not every languages. Finally, to my eyes the SVG version looks - I don't know - like a Kindergarten assignment compared with the PNG. Na uf ana  :  talk  02:38, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Any news on this? I'd support the merge.--Totie (talk) 12:21, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that 5:1 are in favor of the merge. So let's be done with it. Please also do not forget to remove the merge template. Debresser (talk) 23:26, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay I seem to have mucked this up. I thought I could just redirect this image to File:Nocover.svg, but that didn't work. So then I tried to delete and then redirect, but because there's a copy of this image on Commons, that didn't work either. So then I wanted to restore it and revert everything I'd done, but that didn't seem to work properly. So I need some help with this. What do you actually mean when you say "merge"? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:22, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay I've managed to revert everything I did, so now I'll leave this request to someone who knows what they're doing :) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Why not simply start by fixing the templates that are using this image. Then we can see what use cases remain. Perhaps a bot can go trough them. Move/redirecting this file clearly won't work due to the problem with the version on commons. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 15:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have now changed these template. Now you will have to find someone with AWB or a bot willing to replace the remaining use cases. The file should NOT be deleted. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * BTW, please also change the incorrect protection template  to  . Debresser (talk) 15:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The intention of merging seems to be to replace all instances of File:Nocover.png by File:Nocover.svg. Debresser (talk) 15:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC) Since there are some 600+ uses of this template, perhaps a redirect would be best. Is that possible with images? Debresser (talk) 15:47, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * See the words above by MSGJ on why this does not work —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:19, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say not so much "why this doesn't work", rather "that this doesn't work". The obvious alternative is replace all 600+ occurances. Anybody here owns a bot that would be willing to do this? Debresser (talk) 20:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * We could request a bot on WP:BOTREQ. :)--Totie (talk) 21:57, 23 September 2009 (UTC)