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.
Ec