Man on the back cover of the Philosopher's Stone[]
There is a man on the back cover of the Philosopher's Stone book, with brown hair and beard, who is supposedly random. However, isn't he supposed to be a representation of Professor Quirrell? --Hunniebunn (talk) 01:36, October 8, 2012 (UTC)
- Not sure if the reply is still needed, but no, if taking the artist's word as canon, the individual is Robertus Tallis. --Sammm✦✧(talk) 04:29, December 31, 2018 (UTC)
olly moss digital edition[]
anybody gonna add the olly moss digital edition covers? http://ollymoss.com/#/potter/
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Krapp103 (talk • contribs) June 30, 2018.
Done. Long overdue but nevertheless done. Anyone volunteering to expand the descriptions of the art, would be greatly appreciated. --Sammm✦✧(talk) 04:29, December 31, 2018 (UTC)
Japanese cover art[]
I haven't got time to do it now, so I'll just leave a link to where the art's available. If someone else wants to add it, that'd be awesome too.
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- Not promising anything, but yeah, the Japanese cover arts have been on my radar for quite some time as well, problem is, there's just so many of them (different editions for different age-range have books broken down into different total number of volumes; the most having 20 volumes for the originally-7-book-novels.) Just chipping in to let you know you aren't the only one wanting them to be on this wiki.
Content relocation[]
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There's actually several types of content relocation I'd like to perform for this article, but I'll start with an actual split. I'm wondering if it's okay to have the not-sure-why-there-isn't-one article en:Hogwarts Library (companion book collection) created? The "Hogwarts Library" collection originally included Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them & Quidditch Through the Ages, later expanded to include The Tales of Beedle the Bard and has been labeled as such by the publishers. Since we have overview pages for Harry Potter (book series) and Pottermore Presents, I figured one for this set is a little overdue.
Since there may not be much to add for the yet-to-be-created page (but its existence still noteworthy), I'd like to relocate the entire Cover art#Hogwarts Library companion books section to that page, and let cover art just focus on the 7 books first (it's still very far from completion, description-wise). I'm not saying the cover art outside the novels aren't cover art (because they are lol), but I think when the page becomes so long (and we haven't even finished covering the House Edition!), if there's something that stood out as different, it's okay to give it a different treatment? If there's already a page for the collection... Obviously I failed to locate it all these years, so feel free to enlighten me if that's the case. --Sammm✦✧(talk) 06:32, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- I couldn't find a page for the Hogwarts Library collection either, but I absolutely agree that we could set one up. I kind of expected that we did. Perhaps the page "Cover art" could be turned into a disambigation page that links to two pages: one for the Harry Potter book covers and the other for the Hogwarts Library collection book covers. Then set up a third page for details about the Hogwarts Library collection itself. But I support the plan to split the Cover art page one way or the other. - Kates39 (talk) 10:45, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- I also think a split is fine and agree that however it is done should try to mirror the main articles. As noted, "Cover art" would need to become a disambig with links to "Harry Potter novels cover art" and "Harry Potter companion books cover art" (or something better worded :) that would include the Hogwarts Library covers, but also could include the CC & FB screenplay covers, PP, and such. Or "Hogwarts Library cover art" could be separated out and the "J. K. Rowing screenplays cover art" given a separate page if needed (the gallery of covers on the Harry Potter (book series) page has a mix of these options, but should probably be re-arranged to mirror and link to the main articles about the cover art). Obviously a few ways to divvy these up, any of which probably work fine. Cheers --Ironyak1 (talk) 11:44, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hi there, thanks for the input, folks! I myself am not for disambig & matching titles. Sorry for being unclear; if you take a look at like say, pages Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, or Quidditch Through the Ages, there's a section called "Editions" that's essentially the cover art gallery, just that there's no elaboration; I assume because the pages are quite loaded, thus thinking to leave them to this cover art article.
- Harry Potter (book series) isn't supremely long or anything, but with so many countries having full sets, it's unideal to attach the cover art of the 7 books onto that page. The Hogwarts Library companion book collection page would not have the same problem, which was why I was hoping to treat it like book pages (though it'd be a set of 3 books instead of 1).
- Other less similar comparison is like how there's List of characters in translations of Harry Potter and Tom Riddle#Translations of the name (and a few others), there's no reason to lengthen the TOC when it could be put elsewhere; Riddle is actually kind of an exception, but I mostly do it to characters with little page details, such as Euan Abercrombie#Translations. In those situations, I doubt people would want to have a separate article just to disambiguate.
- So now I am a little confused (but that's probably mostly of my own doing :). What Kates and I were saying (I think) is that this article's title "Cover art" implies that all the cover art should be added here. If the content gets split into "Cover art for Hogwarts Library collection" and "Cover art for everything else" then "Cover art" article would need to be a disambig as there are two places for Cover art to be found or added. My concern is that if "Cover art" isn't renamed but is expected to only have certain books, it's just a matter a time before someone says "hey, they don't have the cover art for FB and QTA and such on there" and add them back in.
- The point about the galleries on Harry Potter (book series) was just that they should have the same grouping as the "Cover art" articles after the split and link to those main articles as needed, not that the galleries should be expanded or all-inclusive or anything. Hopefully that makes more sense? Cheers --Ironyak1 (talk) 17:51, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- I find it confusing too, for the reasons outlined by Ironyak. The title "Cover art" will suggest a generic page for anything that can cover, including the Hogwarts Library collection covers. By splitting it, it will be specific to the Harry Potter books. In that case, the title should clarify that. - Kates39 (talk) 11:29, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there! A lot of things going on here on HPW this past week, but I realized I should have still at least made some effort regardless of the excitements. First of all, great apologies, my impression towards Harry Potter (book series) was stuck at this revision; yes, I'm aware of the one that came after, but I had kind of assumed it'd be reverted by some point, since the art inserted definitely was fan manipulated (and somewhat unnecessary). So yeah, I'm sorry to use it as example because I actually forgot there's currently the part at the bottom that showcased only a few sets of covers (in my mind there were none, hence the whole "Harry Potter (book series) isn't supremely long or anything, but with so many countries having full sets, it's unideal to attach the cover art of the 7 books onto that page." comment; you guys were probably like, uh, but there are in fact covers there though? Again, I'm really, really sorry about this.
What I meant about no disambig, is that, there's List of characters in translations of Harry Potter and Euan Abercrombie with a section in the article about the same thing for its respective subject, 2 pages, rather than 3 pages, "List of characters in translations of Harry Potter", "Euan Abercrombie", and "Euan Abercrombie (list of translations)". The "Hogwarts Library (companion book collection)" is an article that I thought missing, and just so happened to be suitable to host applicable images as a section to lessen the load of cover art, but its purpose is not solely on the cover art aspect (it'll leave us still not having the actual book collection page), hence why I'm against using "Hogwarts Library cover art", "Cover art (Hogwarts Library)" etc. as the title for the hypothetical page.
For preventing people potentially wanting to add back stuff on the current article, the section can still be kept but just use {{main}} or {{see also}} with brief description (if really needing), so anyone who can read, knows the stuff is located elsewhere. Example can be seen at List of characters in translations of Harry Potter#Other Hogwarts students and List of wizarding terms in translations of Harry Potter#Honorifics and titles.
To clarify, I wasn't opposing to have clear direction as to where the covers are relocated to; a {{youmay}} at the top directing people to a section specifically about cover arts of companion book, is totally fine. What I am opposed to, is renaming "Cover art" to "Cover art (disambiguation)" or turning it into a disambig page with more new pages to create ("Harry Potter novels cover art"/"Cover art (Harry Potter novels)" + "Harry Potter companion books cover art"/"Cover art (Harry Potter companion books)" etc.). Again, there's no need for "Euan Abercrombie" and "Euan Abercrombie (list of translations)", so I really don't see why there's a need for "disambig to be applied to article titles" in this specific case.
I tried killing to birds with one stone: "hey, we lack this book collection page" and "oh, hey, it can be a good place to house stuff since Cover art is getting huge", not "hey, since Cover art is getting huge, let's specifically create another page that only hosts certain type of covers". I know!!! I know, they read super similar, but I honestly don't think they are the same thing. I'm really, really bad at explaining. (If anyone feels frustrated with trying to understand what I'm getting at, I do sincerely apologize; still working on my conversational skills.)
--Sammm✦✧(talk) 10:20, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, gotcha - I think the {{main}} and {{youmay}} links for the other collections makes sense so that this is still the primary article for cover art, would have a small section (1 cover each probably) for the companion books and screenplays covers, and then {{main}} links to the other articles such as "Hogwarts Library" and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay which would have their respective cover art galleries. Sounds good to me! Cheers --Ironyak1 (talk) 16:54, 17 May 2021 (UTC)