[tptacek]

Pedantry: you can keep a Wikipedia page with virtually no followers or following of any kind. The criteria for Wikipedia pages is simply:

(a) That there be some recognizable claim of notability --- this is an extremely low bar.

(b) That the notability claim, and any other material in the article, be backed entirely by reliable secondary sources.

(c) That after the article is stripped down to facts that can be verified in reliable secondary sources, there's still an encyclopedia article's worth of content left. This, too, is a very low bar.

Where pages tend to run afoul of WP's notability requirement is item (b).

But it's easy to see --- and to provide examples of --- people that with no public influence at all still having a Wikipedia page.