Todd Allen wrote:
But what if we do? We don't need an image to illustrate every anime character that has an article, or to show the cover of every album, or a screenshot of every video game. We can have pop culture articles without nonfree images. No nonfree images is an option. So even 2 million pop culture articles wouldn't necessitate one single free image. The German Wikipedia seems to do just fine with that, I think we would too.
I've always wondered how many Germans "sneak over" via interwiki links to look at the forbidden pictures on en: . Certainly the urge to include images of copyrighted things is plenty strong at de: , they're always using pictures of building signs, Halloween costumes, and other semi-plausible subterfuges to get copyrighted imagery into their articles.
Stan