Why aren't the templates modified in a fashion to include an image? If a template is changed it has to be changed on all articles that use it. IIRC it was something like that new fields appear, but you don't see them in the source text, you can't fill things in, or something like that. So any changes to templates have to be considered carefully (and preferably after someone wrote a bot for repetitive mass edits). The other problem to stick covers in a template is that we have one page per zine series, so there are sometimes many images that have to be arranged according to how they look in the text, i.e. if there is much text (like a TOC) it might look okay to have them in the text, sometimes it looks better to have them all in a gallery at the bottom etc. Also some zines have front and back covers and interior art displayed so that all is very variable.
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If a template is changed it has to be changed on all articles that use it. IIRC it was something like that new fields appear, but you don't see them in the source text, you can't fill things in, or something like that. So any changes to templates have to be considered carefully (and preferably after someone wrote a bot for repetitive mass edits). The other problem to stick covers in a template is that we have one page per zine series, so there are sometimes many images that have to be arranged according to how they look in the text, i.e. if there is much text (like a TOC) it might look okay to have them in the text, sometimes it looks better to have them all in a gallery at the bottom etc. Also some zines have front and back covers and interior art displayed so that all is very variable.