I don't think you have to look too desperately to start a new article
- as long as humans exist and make news, there will be plenty of
things to add. The next killer hurricane, the next teenage gal missing in the Caribbean, the next popular TV show, the next government official arrested for corruption, et al.
There'll always be valid topics to write about, but like Daniel I'm worried about the amount of granular entries we're receiving. "Guy making a canoe out of a log" (or whatever it was), a minor character from Wayne's World 2 is on AFD. While he may be real and verifiable, people need to take into account Wikipedia structure more. Important and big stuff can get a seperate article and granular stuff should only get an article if something encyclopedic can actually be said about it. Otherwise merge per WP:FICT or whatever equivalent we've got.