Gerard,
when I was really active back in 2012, I remember a WMDE employee stating that such decisions are made by the community and not by WMDE. I have asked for clarification on the Project Chat.
As for empty data items; please read the notabilty policy.
An article is notable if it satisfies any one of the following three:
1. It contains
at least one valid sitelink to a Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote or Wikimedia Commons page.
2. It refers to an instance of a
clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it
can be described using serious and publicly available references. If there is no item about you yet, you are probably not notable.
3. It fulfills
some structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful.
Please don't mislead the community who might have their contributions deleted due to lack of notabilty.