Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joan H. Lee
Actually, that's exactly what inheriting notability means, to claim your work/product's notability for yourself, or vice versa. I grant that there's a difference between being notable because you wrote something, and not being notable despite having written something notable. The difference is that in the former case, both author and product should have RS about them, and in the latter, only the written work gets significant coverage. And I have no evidence that we're dealing with an example of the former. She doesn't turn up in any sort of RS I can find except as secondary to her work. You'd think someone would write a news article about her, who happens to be the author of this thesis, rather than this thesis, which happens to be authored by her. Furthermore, I haven't found any evidence that she's notable for any scholarly work except that one thesis, which means she may also run afoul of 
— User:Jorgath, 01:18, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ONEEVENT (Wikipedia:Notability)