Legitimate decreases need to be considered, too.

I don't think all really has been said, if your interests go beyond popular, recent United States culture.

That said, you do have a point. While I spotted another needs-improvement-badly article just last week, it's not common that I look up something which obviously should be in Wikipedia, and find it either completely missing or blatantly inadequate.

One thing that would help would be less knee jerk deletionism. The article I spotted - and haven't fixed yet - would quite likely have wound up at AFD if newly created, helping no one. It's a BLP, and while the person is justly notable, the references on the wretched stub article are not to reliable sources. Nonetheless, there was (barely) enough info to answer the question that caused me to look him up.