User:Elispen

= About Me= Hello there!

I'm an employee at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. I personally do a large amount of work with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which is why I am here.

I've been asked by the Office of EERE to update the EERE article here on Wikipedia.

That's probably a little scary, but don't worry. I'm perfectly aware of the Conflict of Interest guidelines and the problems associated with it. So here's my plan of action!

How I'm Complying with The Conflict of Interest Guidelines

 * I'm not going to edit the EERE page directly. I have a draft that I'm working on.  I'll put it together in my user space.  I'm inviting people to work on it and help bring it up to standards.  (And if anything's profoundly wrong, please tell me so I can learn from my mistakes!)  While I'd like to eventually copy the draft to EERE, I'll ask someone else to do that, and only after other people have had a chance to work on it and decide it's good to go.


 * I've cited everything I could, and pushed to remove any information that couldn't be directly cited. If anything with my draft doesn't meet Wikipedia standards, please tell me.  Or make the changes yourself.  I just want to make sure the article is appropriate.


 * Most of my experience on Wikipedia is editing as an IP--I used to do a lot of spot-editing and grammar fixes on history articles--so I'm aware of the general rules and guidelines. I've never written an article, though, so please tell me if I muck up anything.

Anyway, I'm open to everything at all. If I do something wrong? Please tell me! I'm here to update content, not push an agenda, and I'm open to any comments, suggestions, recommendations or anything at all.

= The EERE Draft= As mentioned above, I'm working on a new version of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy article, as the present one is out of date and unreferenced. This is the current draft I'm working on.

I still need to add the table, but I'll need to do some digging to learn how to do that. So this is still in progress.

Proposed Draft for the new EERE page


 * Please add what you have to mainspace. It doesn't need to be perfect and you can work on it there. Johnfos (talk) 00:36, 5 April 2009 (UTC)