User talk:Castellanet
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Hello Castellanet, when i visited this site, i first saw a big chaos: Is there any possibility to delete alle the "fake-articles"? I can´t delete them....Thanks, --Partaner Time 11:09, 20 March 2006 (CST)
Ok, I tried to find out, what to do: I can repair some articles, but there are many others which don´t have any sense and when I try to search in the history, there wasn´t ever an article. So, How can I use a Delete-Function? --Partaner Time 09:35, 21 March 2006 (CST)
Hm...really not easy ;) But this way makes many articles which are empty. Is there any administrator who can activate the delete-feature for me? Thanks, --Partaner Time 10:31, 22 March 2006 (CST)
Thank you, now, I am clearing up...hopefully it can be at least partly repaired --Partaner Time 16:25, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- D I hope that I can repair everything. --Partaner Time 14:47, 23 March 2006 (CST)
- Now everything should be cleared up, but on this side Special:Allpages, you can see 4-5 other articles which I can´t delete, but don´t know why. Do you have an idea? Thank you --Partaner Time 15:45, 23 March 2006 (CST)
- Thank you! Ich wish myself that it should become better in the future (No Vandal-Bots or something like that). I will supervise the side and protect it against new attacks. -- Because my native language is German, I wanted to ask you something:
- I would like to cooperate on the German Wikipedia against vandalism (delete fakes, block vandals, protect pages...) Do you know persons, who can activate that for me? Thank you very much, --Partaner Time 10:10, 24 March 2006 (CST)
- The FEMA-Wiki needs more articles or new users who can improve this page...maybe it is possible that we will have some new users now. -- Do you know an Admin from the English Wikipedia? I would fight also on the English Wikipedia against Vandal-Bots, Spam etc.. Fortunately, here is already (nearly) everything cleared up. :) --Partaner Time 10:17, 26 March 2006 (CST)
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Hi, How do I create a new page without creating a link? (I was looking at one of those help/how-to sites and it only gave directions for doing it that way). Or I could create the link in a less conspicuous place until the TOC is done. I tried out some formats and they got all jumbled up; I'm going to search for some kind of template or sample.
How can I help?
Hi, I met you at Wikipedia. I have nearly 5 years wiki experience, about half that as an admin (I was the first elected bureaucrat).
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New lawsuit against FEMA filed today. Press Release Below.
ACORN Sues FEMA for Failing to State its Reasons for Terminating Housing Benefits
Federal law provides up to 18 months of housing assistance, but FEMA aims to terminate benefits early, subjecting thousands of families to eviction
WASHINGTON, DC – This morning the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) filed suit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in federal district court in the District of Columbia for failing to adequately explain to hurricane evacuees why their housing benefits are being terminated. Approximately 7,000 evacuees stand to lose their housing as of August 31 unless the court acts.
A press teleconference will occur at 1:00 pm EST: Dial 319-632-1100, Access Code 275632. A live press conference will be held 11:30 am CST at 2201 Hayes Rd. Apt #3916, Houston, TX—the home of a Katrina Survivor scheduled to lose assistance in two days.
The suit asserts that FEMA systematically fails to explain why benefits have been denied and what evacuees may do to fix any problems with their applications for continued housing assistance. Instead, FEMA sends form letters to evacuees that only contain a cryptic computer code or phrase that refers to a reason for each termination of benefits. The suit alleges that the reasons for termination remain vague even after the computer codes have been deciphered, and that for a half-century, the Supreme Court has consistently required agencies to clearly explain their reasons for denial of benefits in time to allow affected individuals to appeal the agency’s decision. Survivors of Katrina and Rita deserve this basic due process, the plaintiffs say.
“Anyone with a $299 computer can mail-merge an explanatory paragraph into a form letter,” said Texas RioGrande Legal Aid attorney Jerome Wesevich. “By using a computer code instead of the English language, FEMA has made what appears to be a deliberate choice to place barriers between desperate families and the housing that Congress said they should have.”
When evacuees call in response to a letter denying benefits, FEMA representatives strain to clearly state the reason for the termination. The process has forced evacuees to run in circles to obtain documents that may not even be needed, and some evacuees have even been given entirely different reasons for the denial when they call FEMA at a later time.
“We stand today with evacuees all across this country who have done everything within their power to put the pieces of their lives back together,” said ACORN representative Debra Campbell. Ms. Campbell is a leader of the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association that has over 5,000 members. Visit www.acorn.org/katrina to learn more.
ACORN is represented by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Jerome Wesevich 915-241-0534) and Public Citizen Litigation Group (Michael T. Kirkpatrick 202-588-1000). The lawsuit and supporting exhibits are posted at: www.citizen.org.
