All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVI

[GethN7]

So, I noticed that our page for Dungeon magazine doesn't have an image.

There's a page on the Forgotten Realms wikia for Dungeon magazine, and it's illustrated with a cover of one of the earlier issues.

Normally, I'd copy and re-use it, with attribution.

But it's issue 5. And that's one with a dungeon written by me in it - the adventure that was updated to 2e and republished in an official collection. People might think I'm boasting if we use that cover. Or I could take Refuge in Audacity and lampshade that "This issue has a Troper Work in it!"

Should we use that cover, or find another?

EDIT: Better-quality copy of the image in question at mycomicshop.com (direct image link)

Rob, I work for a games/general review website (ChristCenteredGamer), and I understand conflict of interest. I once had to disclose I reviewed a book by my uncle, making explicitly clear I received nothing save a copy of the text for due payment and he received nothing save my promise to review the work as fairly as the quality of the text allowed.

However, I don't see the problem in your case. If you want to use it, I would not object, pipe a link to your user page somewhere in the description so they know who it's referring to, if you feel the need to do so, though I see no reason we cannot use the image as is. Any issue of payment is long over with concerning the work and your hand in it, we are not a for-profit site, and the mere coincidence of you having a hand in that issue does not prevent us, at least under my knowledge of our current rules, from using the image to illustrate the work in question.

The fact you were forthright enough to bring this up speaks well of you, and it's appreciated. Regardless, I see no reason to object.