On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:52 PM, toddmallen wrote:
There is no question as to his expertise. The question is "Was his expertise important enough that someone who's -not him- fact checked and published what he had to say on this matter?" The answer appears to be "no". Self-published sources, even by experts, are not particularly reliable, nor do they in any way establish notability.
"Self-published work is acceptable to use in some circumstances, with limitations. For example, material may sometimes be cited which is self-published by an established expert on the topic of the article, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications"
Three points if you can guess what that's a quote from.
"Self-published," incidentally, only comes up in WP:N in terms of autobiography.
-Phil