Talk:The Mysterious West

This article needs an image of the cover in infobox book. ---Prairieplant (talk) 10:17, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

And now it has both the first edition cover and the following year's paperback edition cover. --Prairieplant (talk) 23:54, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

TAnthony Can the paperback image be used? It is marked as orphaned or Di orphaned, and I have no idea what Di orphaned means. The image in question is File:The Mysterious West paperback.jpg, which is substantially different from the first edition hardback cover, and the image used in World Cat, for one example. This is my first time uploading cover images for books. I am familiar with other books that have two cover images, such as some Agatha Christie novels, and both images are in the article. One is placed in the infobox, the true first edition, and the other is in the Publication history section. I know this article is still a stub, but it is growing. Can the image be placed in the article now that it was properly shrunk? --Prairieplant (talk) 04:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

In general, two non-free images should not be used in one article if one image serves the purpose, in this case identifying the novel. As far as Agatha Christie goes, I randomly checked Sparkling Cyanide and And Then There Were None, in both of these cases the 2nd image is an alternative title. The argument can be made that the second image increases understanding of/illustrates the novel's publication under another name. The second image needs to really have its own purpose in the article, other than the purpose for which the first image is being used. File:The Mysterious West paperback.jpg is tagged for deletion because it is not used in any articles. If you haven't yet, you should take a look at the image policy at WP:NFCC, or the expanded version at WP:NFC.— TAnthony^Talk 00:12, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

TAnthony Then the earlier portion of the Aubrey Maturin series of articles will have the Geoff Hunt covers on the re-issues removed? Just one article has the re-issue cover now, Master and Commander, but the plan (laid out on the Talk page of that article) is to add that cover to the articles on the novels before Geoff Hunt's cover was the first edition cover. Title did not change, but the increased interest in the novel led the British publisher to hire that artist to make paintings for all the novels in series, which were then used as covers by the UK and the US publishers. I want both covers in those articles as do other editors, but it seems like the same situation to me, sadly. Re-issues of The Mysterious West are paperbacks and using the later cover. To the list of articles on Agatha Christie novels with two covers shown in the article, add these 13 with no change of title: The Murder on the Links, The Secret of Chimneys, Peril at End House, Appointment with Death, N or M?, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger, Towards Zero, Death Comes as the End, The Hollow, Mrs McGinty's Dead, After the Funeral, Dead Man's Folly,

and these 7 with two titles: The Sittaford Mystery, Lord Edgware Dies, Three Act Tragedy, Death in the Clouds, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Taken at the Flood. From reading the articles on her novels, set up by earlier editors, I picked up the notion that two cover images was okay to have, when there were different images used early in the book's publication history. I will study on the image policy now. --Prairieplant (talk) 20:38, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

I did not find the artist for the paperback cover image, but it is more in the style of the images on Hillerman's novels when Peter Thorpe drew the covers, for the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, beginning with Skinwalkers (novel). --Prairieplant (talk) 20:48, 4 February 2018 (UTC)