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Free images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use, unless, of course, the image is intended to demonstrate watermarking, distortion, titles, etc. and is used in the related article. Exceptions may be made for historic images when the credit or title ...
On Wikipedia, the use of media files is subject to the image use policy, and additionally the use of non-free content is governed by Wikipedia:Non-free content. Image description pages must be tagged with a special tag to indicate the legal status of the images, as described at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Untagged or incorrectly-tagged ...
If the image is tagged as Fair use, then most probably you cannot.See the Fair use section for more details. You can for all other images released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License or a similarly free license provided you abide by the license conditions – include a link back to the wikipage for that picture or to the creator's website and license any ...
Also, non-commercial, educational use only, and no derivatives, and other such restrictions on the type of use limit how other people may use the image outside of Wikipedia. Such images aren't considered "free", and so if these images cannot be justified as "fair use" within their articles, they will be deleted from Wikipedia.
Images with any license restricting commercial use or the creation of derivative works may not be used on Wikipedia. The Creative Commons site has a search page that can be used as a starting point to find suitably licensed images; make sure you check both the checkboxes "use for commercial purposes" and "modify, adapt, or build upon".
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 ...
If another non-free image of an element of an article is used elsewhere within Wikipedia, referring to its other use is preferred over repeating its use on the list and/or including a new, separate, non-free image. If duplicating the use of a non-free image, please be aware that a separate non-free use rationale must be supplied for the image ...
A dilution case involves use of a mark in a "commercial context". This means that the use in question must actually be in the stream of commerce and could therefore make a profit for the user. Dilution deals with marks as "source indicators". This term refers to the ability of a mark to identify a user and/or its products and services.