Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baye McNeil
Cover blurbs are not independent reliable sources -- they are directly selected and published by the author and/or publisher. Yes, they are inherently biased. This is not a matter of someone issuing a ruling and establishing precedence. Someone might have told you something and we might or might not agree with them. Either way, the  will be the only decision that matters. The editor proposed deletion because they felt the subject is not notable. Having only self-published works, McNeil is ''very'' unlikely to pass . That leaves |the general notability guideline (GNG). To pass GNG,  McNeil would need to have "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cover blurbs and interviews are not independent of the subject. Of the few sources left after that, I don't immediately see any that are "|reliable
— User:SummerPhD, 23:04, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:CONSENSUS||WP:AUTHOR||WP:GNG||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Consensus)