Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Dryer
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
— User:Nomoskedasticity, 19:04, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)