Problematic articles

You misunderstand me. I di dnot say that someone has to compile a complete bibliography to make an article base-line. I said that whatever makes an article base-line it should be enough that the appropriate Wikiproject can move on to the next step, one of which could be coming upo with a bibliography from the past five years (which is not "complete") - a topic has to be clearly established and defined to make that possible. Isn't it obvious that for people to come up with a bibliography (as a basis for the next step, more research) the bibliography cannot have hundreds of items? This means that a clearly defined encyclopedic topic must first be established. ANd I consider this to be one criteria for "base-line."

I see nothing wrong with defining grades of quality not just in terms of what the article fulfills, but what future research thus becomes definable.

I have no objection to the other criteria you suggest.