File talk:The black hammer.gif

This file was nominated at Wikipedia:Files for discussion on 2020 March 16. The result of the discussion was keep.

This book cover is historically relevant. It represents a time, place, and event that is better depicted to the reader with this image. Not sure why the robot marked this for deletion (super frustrating actually).

• This image in NO way competes with the copyright holder's use. The book is well out of print, copyright holder is long passed away, and is unlikely to be put into print again.
• I am willing to reduce the resolution. "In most cases, this reduction will occur automatically: simply wait 24 hours and a bot will resize the image file according to the guideline at WP:IMAGERES. Where an automatic reductions does not occur or if a manual reduction is desired, the size of an image may be reduced in an image editing program or by saving and re-uploading a suitably sized thumbnail." I am waiting 24 hours before doing it myself.
• Is it used for commentary on a particular topic? Yes. Ezra Taft Benson was the Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration, and in the 1960s was floating a presidential run. He began to espouse the idea that the Civil Rights Movement was being used as a tool for introducing communism into the United States. This image was controversial, as such, historically relevant.
• There does not exist a "free" version of it. Epachamo (talk) 22:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The question has to do with not whether the book itself is notable or whether there is sourced critcial commentary about it in the article, but rather whether there is sourced critical commentary about the cover art itself in the article that goes beyond a simple descriptive sentence. Non-free book covers are generally OK to upload per item 1 of

WP:OR that is unsupported by any citation to a reliable sources that states the book's cover to be controversial. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:08, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply

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