On 9/11/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I've been tending to apply "enough to illustrate the article", and reducing higher resolutions to 300x300. (I suppose a particularly remarkable aspect of a particular cover could do with higher resolution on a case by case basis.)
There's a sort of standard now for images in articles which has organically evolved and has been around for a long time. 300px wide is the largest that most images get, at least the ones in portrait orientation. Images wider than that are usually landscape panoramas in articles about locations.
300px is more than enough for a CD cover, book cover, DVD cover etc. Note that the infoboxes for albums, films etc all default to 200px width, which is a good size for infobox use.