On 8/23/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
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.
Your statement is true, but there is an obvious usefulness of being able to include an image of the thing we're talking about in the article on that subject... And for copyrighted works it's generally not possible to inclue an excerpt of the work without including some non-free media. So it's a trade-off. We could argue the merits of where to draw the line... but it still remains a compromise.
Shouldn't we, instead, worry first about all the articles about physics, mathematics, chemistry, ancient history and culture, etc where we're not writing about a copyrighted work, where that compromise doesn't really exist?