My apologies — I communicated that poorly. I had meant that as a facetious way of saying "niggling issues," rather than a specific indictment. My point was primarily that deleting a questionably notable article does not contribute significantly to the value that people get out of Wikipedia. They are largely orthogonal concerns. I don't think Wikipedia would lose one iota of value in the common person's eye if (without loss of generality) an article on a band in Wisconsin were allowed to remain. Wikipedia was not richer during the period Nemerle's article was deleted.

Incidentally, I just looked over Wikipedia's notability rules and they seem to be a bit more reasonable than they were when I used to edit things there, so props to them for making progress on that issue.