Michael Santora wrote:
The number of articles which Wikipedia can have is limited by the number of at least marginally notable and verifiable things which exist. After every notable person, place, movie, scientific topic, and so on have their own article, we'll run out of things to write about. Whether this will happen at 2 million, 3 million, 4 million, it will happen.
You are grossly underestimating the number of articles. There are more than a million species of insects alone, and each should have an article. Levelling off is not likely to happen until we exceed 100 million.
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