Deletion of Matthew Dryer

Comment: Agree with Nomoskedasticity. Meets  criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). Citation impact http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sauthors=%22Matthew+S.+Dryer%22 indicates notability (this is slightly different from the one obtained by Nomoskedasticity, but essentially the same conclusion). Article definitely needs rewriting, and should indeed be reduced to a stub for future growth
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: The article is crap, but Mr Dryer would seem to meet : full professor at major research university, major awards as seen http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/ here (NSF, Humboldt), lots of published work with lots of http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_q=linguistics&num=50&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=m-dryer&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=some&as_subj=soc&hl=en&lr=&safe=off citations, etc.  It was correct to prod the article about the paper, but before AfD on the author it would have been wise to check a bit
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)