I don't think that whether we have an article on a subject or not should be decided by <s>popularity contest</s>mere majority/plurality voting. Should there not be visible and comprehensible principles that decide what is encyclopedic and what isn't? I don't think anyone (at least with any support) is proposing that people everyone should get a VfD veto, which is what your post implied, but rather that we don't let adding to the VfD page be something that can be done on a whim. If popularity was any measure, we'd have a million articles on celebrity trivia (_not a bad thing in itself_) and no articles in obscure areas of mathematics, or history.
-nsh
What do you mean if?