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