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They clearly do meet the notability requirements; the cites on this article are almost as long as the article itself. Notability on Wikipedia is a term of art; it refers ("mostly") to how much of the content of the article can be drawn from (ideally diverse) secondary sources. It's not an achievement award.

> Because this is a person that doesn't meet the notoriety requirements for Wikipedia

Very much does, just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't.

Wikipedia has protections against this. it is not trivial. Each change by random ip also has to be accepted by editor with permissions, and getting these permissions is not easy. It might be possible to bypass all abuse counter measures, but it takes a lot of effort and is not trivial