Oliver Pereira wrote in part:
So we could include people and events that have not had
significant impact
on a global or even a national level, but which maybe only affected a
small group of people. As long as there is some coverage in published
sources, somewhere, we could use that to make an article on the subject.
Yeah, that sounds about right to me.
Of course, individual Wikipedia editors
may want to set priorities for themselves.
-- Toby