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In short, Wikipedia media (with the exception of "fair use" media—see below) should be as "free" as Wikipedia's content—both to keep Wikipedia's own legal status secure and to allow as much re-use of Wikipedia content as possible. For example, Wikipedia can accept images under CC-BY-SA (Attribution-Share Alike) as a free license, but not CC ...
Some non-free images may be used on Wikipedia, providing they meet both the legal criteria for fair use, and Wikipedia's own guidelines for non-free content. Non-free images that reasonably could be replaced by free content images are not suitable for Wikipedia. All non-free images must meet each non-free content criterion; failure to meet ...
Non-free currency}} —for images of the official currency of a country that may be copyrighted. {{Non-free stamp}} —for images of postage stamps that may be copyrighted. {{Non-free stamp of Canada}} —for images of Canadian stamps issued in 1958 or later. {{Non-free stamp of India}} —for images of Indian stamps issued in 1948 or later.
The original legal basis for United States copyright is the "copyright clause" of the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, which states, in pertinent part, "The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective ...
The non-free use you're proposing is bascially a WP:DECORATIVE type of non-free use, and it's not really considered policy-compliant to use non-free images in list articles or in a list-, a gallery- or a table-like display per WP:NFLIST and WP:NFTABLE simply to show what one of a group of entries looks like. If the rationale you posted above ...
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility § Images; Wikipedia:Image placeholders – former policy about placeholder images, especially for biographical pages, now deprecated; Wikipedia:File names – naming convention; Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts – information page summarizing this page
The current guidelines for non-free content on Wikipedia, though written about at length on various project pages, does not seem to translate well into actual practice: many images are labeled as "fair use" without any deliberation, and many such images labeled would probably not be judged as "fair use" in a court of law.
Correct misinterpretations of free images. One of the main complaints about free images is lack of quality when compared with a promotional images. That is not true: there are very good free images as shown by Wikipedia:Featured pictures. In the case of replaceable images, it is possible that a promotional image will look better than free versions.