Khym_Chanur

A good reason why there's no such method for viewing a submission's status is because spammers would use it to re-submit as soon as one of their submissions was deleted, and also use it to figure out how to get around our spam-detection methods, both of which would mean more work for us editors.

Re: Status of http://www.candlegalaxy.com submissi It was deleted because Candle Galaxy is owned by NJCandles, which is already listed.

It was deleted for being an affiliate site, since an editor considered all of the links to be affiliate links. From the ODP guidelines:

Well, according to our logs, it was updated, per your request, on 06/20/2002, and again on 01/15/2003; between those dates, two other update requests were denied, because the editor thought that the site was described accurately. So, it the description still inaccurate? If so, how?

Re: Please tell me the status of http://www.webcon Nothing has been done to that submission. The closest parent category with an editor is Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion/, and which has a total of over 700 unrevieweds, so it might take a while.

www.screensaver-maker.org is considered to be a deep link of www.shareware4web.com. That is, we consider screensaver-maker.org to be a part of the site of shareware4web.com, even though they have different domain names. The ODP definition for a "site" is somehwat flexible, since we consider domains like Geocities.com to host thousands and thousands of sites, even though it's only a single domain name. And in our definition for "site", a single site can be spread across multiple domains, in which case a link to a one of those other domains would be a deeplink, which we don't list (unless there's some compelling reason to list it). Additionally, the maker of the software, 21hua.com, is already listed, so there's no particular reason for us to list another site whose only purpose is to sell the exact same software.

I think it is, but I'm not sure, since Shopping isn't a category I edit. If the title and description of your submission conforms to guidelines, it might speed things up; there are a number of editors who look through the list of unrevieweds and publish those first, since those take the least amount of time. You could resubmit, but that would send you to the end of the queue; however, that might not hurt, since editors aren't obligated to edit submissions in the order they appear in the queue. Impossible to say. It depends on the amount of time that the primary editors involved with the area spend editing. If they're involved in a project somewhere else in the directory, they might not spend much time in the T-Shirt area. Or they might have recently got something new to do in Real Life, like a new child or a vacation. Then again, another editor might come in and edit some of the unreviewds.

Nothing has been done with your submission, and it sits in unreveiwed with around 300 other sites.

Re: Did I screw up or is iinfosearch.com in the qu It was published in Business/Industries/Security/Special_Services/ on December 6. Your submissions to Business/Industries/Security/Investigation/ and Business/Industries/Security/Investigation/Records_Research/ were deleted.

Nothing has been done with you submission. The closes ancestor category with an editor is Regional/Asia/Malaysia/Business_and_Economy/, which has a total of about 100 other unrevieweds, so it will take a while to get reviewed.

Nothing has been done with it so far, and it is sitting in unreviewed along with about 200 others.

It is sitting in unreviewed, alomg with over 300 other sites. However, the closest parent category with an editor is one category up, and that editors has some other categories with lots of unrevieweds. So, it's going to take a while.

Yes, it does. The editor of any ancestor/parent category can editor there, as well as any editall and meta editors. How long it will take for the editors of an ancestor category to edit the descendant category depends on how busy they are editing overal (which includes things other than looking at unrevieweds), and how much time/effort they're donating to editing. Recreation/Models/RC/Electronics/ is a small enough category that you can probably be granted editorship of it if you apply for it. http://RcBrushless.com/ is sitting in unreviewed; the closest ancestor category which has an editor is Recreation/Models/, and the Recreation/Models/RC/ tree has about 200 unrevieweds in it. http://TheYo.com/ is sitting in unreviewed; the closest ancestor category with an editor is Kids_and_Teens/Computers/, and the Chats_and_Forums/ tree has about 50 unreviewed. Wait, looking at your site, I see that the forum part of it is at http://pub168.ezboard.com/byoyo42048; that is the URL that you want to submit; I doubt that http://TheYo.com/ itself will get listed anywhere in the directory...

The problem is that it takes about a week to generate the RDF dump, so the sole programmer starts it up, waits a week, finds out it doesn't work, tries to fix it, waits a week, see that it didn't work, waits a week... So she's gone through about 12 iterations of the edit-run-debug cycle, and it can take a lot more than that to track down and fix difficult problems.

Nothing has been done with that submission yet. The closest ancestor/parent category with an editor is Regional/North_America/United_States/Virginia/Localities/, which has over 500 other unreviewds, so it will take a while.