Comment by Kim_Bruning

I do agree with CDrost that some politics is involved. I also traditionally did not agree with the way "Notability" has grown. Originally IIRC it was an eventualist criterion to rescue articles without sources (or bad sources) from deletion... because if things are (obviously) notable, one will definitely be able to find sources eventually.

Now somehow the way notability works has been inverted, even allowing deletion of sourced articles.

There is a parable here about processes getting misread/worn down over time, but I don't quite have all the bits together to write it out in full.

Finally note that most wikipedia processes can be initiated by non-admins, and often are.