Talk:The Mr. T Experience

Fair use image removal
I have removed all or a majority of the fair use images on this page as their use was not in line with our Non-free content criteria policy (likely in that the use is not minimal (3.a.) and it is in a list or a gallery (8.)) or our Non-free content guideline that states that cover images may only be used for critical commentary on the cover itself, not just identification. Please do not re-add them without discussion. Kotepho 09:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I have to protest this. At the very least, there are a number of ongoing discussions in various places at the moment (Albums project, village pump, Betacommandbot-related talk pages, Wikipedia talk:Non-free content) as to whether the use of album cover images in a discography section does or does not meet the criteria established in the NFC policy. Now, I am at the fringe of this discussion and am just an observer, but I am someone who has worked long and hard to create encyclopedic articles on musical artists who do not have an adequate informational source elsewhere on the internet. Providing information about a musical artist's releases often includes providing cover artwork for those releases, either in a discography table or in an article about the release itself. In many cases this creates an important, if not the only, means of visually identifying the subject of the article in question. Again, I am not an admin nor am I deeply involved in the ongoing debate over fair use in these cases, however I am a contributor who is trying to create the best articles I can, both textually and visually. I will confine my statements to the matter at hand here. I created the discography. I feel that it may be of sufficient length to warrant branching off into an article of its own. I feel that the inclusion of cover images complements and enhances the discography providing both a visual link to the items in question and, in some cases, visual evidence that they actually exist (which, in the case of bands like this with many small independent releases, is hard to extablish). I also believe that the inclusion of these images does not violate any reasonable interpretation of fair use laws and their intention. I will continue monitoring the ongoing discussions on this topic, but if I cannot reasonably ascertain that a consensus has been reached then eventually it is likely that I will re-add the images, even if it means they will be taken out again. --IllaZilla 19:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Assessing for SFBA Project
This could be a B class article with some more sourcing, overall a very good one. Rating importance at "mid" (more than most bands) because of longevity, output, relative success Wikidemo 18:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)