Mark Richards wrote:
Exactly - this is a straw man.
I don't see how it is a straw man at all. You said explicitly that there are no criteria besides verifiability that are acceptable. The entire contents of my local newspaper are verifiable, as they keep archives. Therefore, *anything* in my encyclopedia is a valid Wikipedia article, and if on a whim I decide to add anything from it, no matter how non-notable, you have no basis to delete it, because you reject notability as a criterion.
And there are many articles on Wikipedia like this that get deleted. There have been articles about college students who made Dean's List, which is verifiable from the University's website; articles about members of high school marching bands, which are verifiable from published lists of marching band members; etc. These all get deleted anyway, due to non-notability.
-Mark