User:Quarg

A UK-based environmental scientist, currently seconded into one of the English capital's transport organisations.

The username comes from a series of reports published by the Quality of Urban Air Review Group (QUARG) in the mid-1990s. QUARG is still the best set of reports on that aspect of life.

I have been categorized (with uncanny accuracy) by User:Maylett as "a newbie who hasn't developed an appropriate encyclopaedic writing style". That was in the VFD for the article 20 minutes on the Tube equals one cigarette, which I regret to say was VFD'd three hours after appearing.

Maylett's assesssment is harsh, but true.

That article, it's magazine-article style and godawful title are entirely my fault. Anyone who thought it or its title was bollocks is invited to leave a message on my talk page.

If you voted to delete it because it's original research, please explain why; and before you do, read all my references! Is it (unacceptable) "original research" to:


 * take a well-established, oft-quoted, utterly misleading claim;
 * carefully tear it to shreds using documented data (including the original source at UCL!);
 * point readers towards the best real assessments.

To make a crude analogy, is Wikipedia here to record that the moon is claimed to be made of ferritic rocks, then give equal credence to the claim that it is pure gruyere?