Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich Stowell
regretfully, since Mr. Stowell sounds like an admirable person and I'm sure his book is good. But is it self-published. Self-published books almost never qualify as notable under Wikipedia's standards, because they don't usually get any independent coverage as required by , and as far as I can find, this one didn't
— User:MelanieN, 22:32, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)