> I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.

I mean, I think that's the issue. Seems like you agree with Wikipedia that there's a minimum requirement for notoriety, but want it to be lower than it is: how low? What's the cutoff? How would you define that clearly and have volunteer editors enforce it consistently, so that everybody looks at it and says "that's just right"? It's easy to notice the problems with Wikipedia, but I think it's harder to solve them.