I agree with you as it currently stands, though I think there's been a shift on that. There used to be an attempt to enforce an independent notability guideline

I agree with you as it currently stands, though I think there's been a shift on that. There used to be an attempt to enforce an independent notability guidelines, that Wikipedia would only cover subjects that were "encyclopedic". I believe that even predates the verifiability/referencing push. But where I agree is that I believe the latter has mostly obsoleted the former: nowadays, if you have good references for your article, it's ipso facto notable. I wrote a bit about that evolution elsewhere, on the off chance it's interesting: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability.html http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability...