I had experience with Wikipedia editors over a company page years ago. Back then it was much easier to get a page for pretty much any private company. At some point the rules got a lot stricter. Some of the editors were a genuine pain to deal with.

However, they’re doing useful work. Without that gatekeeping, Wikipedia would turn into a directory of self-promoted pages.

Besides that, there are dozens of other opportunities for a distinguished person to promote themselves. Not having a Wikipedia page doesn’t make anyone’s work less real. How about a simple personal site with a bio and links to your work? Does the job just fine, and you control it. 10 USD/year for a domain name and maybe even a free cloud hosting.