User:Masem/nfc-response


 * Let me try to expand on how I'm thinking here. 99.99 something% of the time, the album cover is purely decoration; there is no wikitext to say "the album cover has been noted as such and such" in many cases.  Decorative uses are not bad, however, they pretty much have to be restricted to when the topic of the article is about that album, as thus we can typical implore the fair use claim "for identification purposes", plus we are including "facts and commentary" about the album itself.  When the topic is about the artist or group, very rarely does the album cover image help beyond decoration, and generally since discographies are part of the artist's article or a sub-topic of that article, we should strongly avoid the use of decorative images.  (An exception may be if an artist underwent a drastic image change and the only non-free image is that off the album cover to show the previous image, but that is however not the case here).
 * Now, lets consider things like Unearthed (album) and Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night. The former is specifically a box set (aka a attributable collection of albums) thus the topic of the article is about the box set.  But it is also a unique case in that one of the albums in it, "My Mother's Hymn Book", was released

after the release of the boxed set (1993, then 1994, according to Amazon). It is the only disk on that set to be released in that fashion. Does it make sense here to break out a "My Mother's Hymn Book" album article - not really, since it is part of the box set. Thus, in this highly unique case, it seems reasonable to include both the box set image to identify the box set, and the MMHB album image to identify the album. This is a rarity, so should be treated as a highly specialized case. So how does this apply to Margaritaville Cafe? Well, as I've mentioned, the albums do share a common similarity by name and being performed in various MCafes around the country, but that's the only grouping that can do, and as I've mentioned, almost edges on OR.