I don't know anything about Max and so I don't know whether he deserves an article, but the underlying question is important and interesting: should anything that somebody bothered to write up be accepted into Wikipedia, assuming it is NPOV?
I say no. The item has to be of relevance in some way...
I was inclined to agree, and I definitely think there are topics that don't belong in an encyclopedia. But if we do implement some approval system, especially a multiple-valued one such as I suggested earlier today, I like Jimbo's suggestion of making relvance one of the approval criteria. If that's done, then there's really little reason not to allow reasonable articles on anything and anyone, and simply consider them potential articles (which might get promoted to "relevant" status if, say, Jimbo's mom gets elected to congress or something).
One possible downside is that many of them might become orphans, making database maintenance harder, because even if we allow such articles, we should not necessarily allow links to them from relevant articles. 0