[WikiEN-l] Is fair use a right as well as a defense?

[Stephen Bain]

On 9/11/07, David Gerard <dgerard at 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.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com