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35: 315:(!) book covers. There should be one book cover. Book covers must have a fair use rationale, and more than one is really pushing that. I quite like the article itself, although some of the sections could be merged. Do not small-font your notes, it is poor style (font should be a minimum size, particularly for those with vision problems). 97:
use rationale on all images states they are "illustrating how different individuals have visualized Starship Troopers", but they are spread rather random throughout the article and there is no mentioning of any cover in the article. They certainly are not used to illustrate anything in the sections they are placed in. --
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The non-English book covers could be reduced and merged into a single image for the purpose of demonstrating the various languages into which the novel has been translated. Apart from stills from the movie or possibly a pic of Heinlein, however, I'm not sure what other images you're going to find. —
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As has been already pointed out in the FA nomination, there seem to be quite a lot of images of covers of the book in the article and I'm not sure their use qualifies as fair use. It seems to me as if they're used more for decorational purposes than to illustrate the points of the article. The fair
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about futuristic warfare from an infantryman's perspective. It helped created a sub genre of literature known as military science fiction and is the only science fiction novel on the reading list at all four United States military academies. However, the novel is extremely controversial, and has
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does say we're allowed to use book covers "to illustrate an article discussing the book in question". I should add that I originally used images from the films, anime, and comics, but other users objected to using pictures from non-literary sources. *sigh*. I just can't win this one, can I?
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Well, you're definitely right about them cluttering up the article so I've tried spacing them out a bit. I do think they add to the article, because in addition to being visual aids, they give multiple different perceptions of the powered armor (My personal favorite is the
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Sure, in general I agree, but the many covers in the article seem excessive and unnecessary. Most of them just jam the article and don't add anything informative to it. And as you brought that up, there's no mentioning of any of the US comic books in the article.
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ed in several FA already without problems. Since the technique always involve scalable fonts, the reader is able to jack up the text size (and if he has vision problems, he probably does it by default).
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when this page was obviously nowhere near FA status, and consequently received minimal feedback. However this article has improved a lot over the last two months and was recently
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17:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC) I have just swapped two book covers for two other images. The same could be done through the rest of the article.
169:). I still have to rewrite the "Themes" section, so when I finish with that I think I'll redo the footnotes so that they're 'concentrated.' 437:
The main reason this article failed in its FA nomination was a lack of copyediting. Would anyone here be able to help with that?
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Good idea. I'm loathe to use anything from the film for two reasons: one, this article is about the novel, not the
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fans. I had to create a seperate page for it all called Books, films, and games influenced by Starship Troopers.
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OMG! NO WAY! You should have seen this page when I took over. At least 1/3 was taken up by
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I have to start this request for a Peer Review with an apology. I made the last request
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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
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been called militaristic, fascist, and even racist by many of its detractors.
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Haven't read the article in details yet, but these would be nice to correct.
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I have a problem with so many book covers and no other images.
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Usually these articles have a list of references in culture.
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Several short sections (reception, some of the adaptations).
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It'd be nice if identical notes could be concatenated (see
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to be that many pictures in the article, anyway. --
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Will try and tighten up/merge the shorter sections.
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Knowledge:Peer review
Starship Troopers
archive
current main page
Starship Troopers
back in December
nominated to be a Featured Article
Robert A. Heinlein
Palm_Dogg
09:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Fritz Saalfeld
Talk
11:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Template:bookcover
Palm_Dogg
13:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Fritz Saalfeld
Talk
14:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Polish version
Palm_Dogg
15:38, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Palm_Dogg
14:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
main
details
Circeus
15:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Palm_Dogg
Palm_Dogg

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