Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earl Killian
Patents are not secondary sources as required by both  and  - they are effectively self-published material regardless of the patent office's approval.  Ergo, having a lot of patents is not anything related with notability unless secondary sources have commented on that
— User:Masem, 14:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)