David Gerard wrote:
...it is in fact a grey area and requires ... human editorial judgement. Which is why Wikipedia is written by humans instead of assembled from some sort of data dump.
Indeed. But when we forget that, we end up with Wikipedians reiterating a robot mantra of, "You're borderline notable, and that's good enough for us, so deal with it", which Seth poignantly paraphrases as "You've achieved a few things over the years, and as a reward, here's your very own troll magnet to monitor and defend for the rest of your life." (See [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Seth_Finkelstein]].)