File talk:Der Landser by Franz Kurowski.jpg

Fair use rationale

@Marchjuly: I believe that fair use rationale is justified in this case for Franz Kurowski, as it significantly enhances the reader's understanding of the topic of "Landser-pulp" literature that the subject of the article produced. It's one thing to describe it as fictionalised and unreliable, but quite another to see the Rambo-style cover. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:50, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Maybe what you say is true, but the cover art can be seen in the stand-alone article Der Landser so generally a link to that article seems to sufficient for the reasons explained in item 6 of WP:NFC#UUI. Sentences about "Landser-pulp" such as "Since its founding, the magazine was criticized for glorifying war and delivering a distorted image of the Wehrmacht and Nazi Germany during World War II." do not really require that the reader see this particular cover art to be understood and if another piece of non-free conver art from the series could essentially replace this one and serve the same purpose, then the justification for using any non-free cover art is pretty weak in my opinion. What in the article requires that the reader actually see this particular cover to be understood and how would omitting this cover be detrimental to that understanding? Is it mainly being used to just show one example of a "Landser-pulp" cover? -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:10, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: I've moved the image to Franz_Kurowski#Authenticity_and_accuracy. My contention is that the image significantly improves the readers' understanding of the subject of Kurowski's authenticity and accuracy (i.e. extremely limited). :-) K.e.coffman (talk) 23:11, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

There still is, in my opinion, no reason the reader needs to see this non-free cover art when there's a link to the stand-alone article about the book itself. You're basically trying to use non-free cover art in a decorative way as an example of what these covers typically look like. Is this particular cover even specifically mentioned in the source your citing in support? I don't understand German, but, after using Google translate, it appears to be a more general discussion of Kurowski and perhaps his choice of cover art, than something specifically about this particular cover per se. If that's the case, then WP:RSCONTEXT probably would be fine for a general mention of this, but not really as justification for non-free use in the author's article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:34, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

I started the FFD discussion, K.e.coffman. "G8" criterion no longer applies. --George Ho (talk) 18:23, 26 April 2017 (UTC)