changes & additions www.sunrisewoodcrafts.ns.ca

This site is listed in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning

I made a request some time ago for the description to be changed in order to reflect a couple of changes on the website. Can you tell me if my request has been rejected, ignored or still waiting for review?

I have also in the past asked for the sub-directory http://www.sunrisewoodcrafts.ns.ca/wedding-favors/ to be added to the wedding favor category http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Weddings/Reception/Favors/ . Is it unreasonable to request inclusion in multiple categories when the product range appeals to a wide audience? Being in the Woodturning category is fine, but I have customers who could equally well be looking in Cooking, Gardening, Weddings or Wine categories. Comments would be appreciated.

As an aside, I think there is a feeling amongst webmasters that DMOZ is a bit of a black hole. I think it would be really nice if there was some way of tracking submissions and knowing that something is happening. I would be much more patient if I knew when I submit a request that there are X items queued ahead of me. When I check back later and find only X-Y in the queue, I would at least see some glimmer of hope on the horizon. And if the editor doesn't like the submission it would be nice to know that too.

Thanks

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The request is still waiting for review. I imagine it will go through because the description isn't full of hype and generally adheres to the directory guidelines. Thanks for that <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />.

Hopefully someone else with more knowledge of Shopping will be able to answer your second question; I tend to shy away from that area.

By the way, did you know you are also listed in River John?

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By the way, did you know you are also listed in River John?

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He used to be the editor for River John. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> Hmm, I remember adding that site to River John back in my early days of editing in Nova Scotia. Seems like so long ago. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

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&gt;I would be much more patient if I knew when I submit a request that there are X items queued ahead of me. When I check back later and find only X-Y in the queue, I would at least see some glimmer of hope on the horizon. And if the editor doesn't like the submission it would be nice to know that too.

Sigh. Perhaps it's a bit of a misnomer to call it a "queue". Because it isn't one. Oh, editors can view the unreviewed "set" in various orders -- including by date submitted, but I don't know which order any other editor on earth usually uses, or whether they're doing anything at all, let alone their "usual" thing, today. I can tell you that when I started out yesterday in "Chamber Ensembles" intending to clean up the backlog, I ended up in Poland/World War II, having listed one chamber ensemble site and several Austrian hotel sites and created a new Holocaust category -- and having cleared out ALL the reviewed sites "that didn't repel me by bad navigation, and really did belong there" in more than a dozen categories. Who'da predicted THAT? And how could they? I've never been listed as editor of ANY regional categories (well, except for a couple that got moved out of Science or Reference).

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Thanks for checking for me! Yes, I did know I was in the River John category - I hope that isn't a problem or disadvantage to me?

As motsa says I edited that category for a while, so do appreciate what you folks do! I don't think I ever had anyone suggest a site for that category while I was editing (big surprise!), but all the cross referencing I was asked to do was over my head. <img src="/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" />

Derek

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&gt;&gt; Yes, I did know I was in the River John category - I hope that isn't a problem or disadvantage to me? &lt;&lt;

It's an advantage <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />.

I am personally working through http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Crafts/Woodcraft/ and will be making sure that all sites are reviewed in the next month, two months at the most, as there are a lot of categories in this branch in desperate need of some "cleaning up". <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thank you Momathome!

Derek