Duplicated Categories - Regional

Hi,

I am hoping to become the editor of "Arts>Radio>Formats>College and Educational>Regional>United Kingdom".

But my question is more general - there seem to be quite a few duplicated categories in DMOZ - depending on how you navigate to it.

Eg in my mind this is the same category:
"Regional>Europe>United Kingdom>Arts and Entertainment>Radio>Student"

Does DMOZ have way of 'Aliasing' categories (rather than just being related) ? - to make it easier for the user navigate to, but have shared content ?

On a similar note - is there a standard hierarchy of for regions ? I suppose it depends on how popular that sub-category is. But sometime it goes straight to countries, and sometimes it goes continent to country. And sometimes it follows on to county names. I have read through the FAQ on Regional Subcategories. But I still wonder if there method in the madness ?

DMOZ aims to be useful to humans, rather than being comepletely logically organised ?

Cheers,

nick.

These are indeed the kind of questions that editors should always be asking. There is indeed an "aliasing" feature; it is used often, but IMO not used anything like as often as it could be.

There is indeed a "regional template", but it is rather complex: there are, for instance, options that can be selected by country. It is not always followed as closely as it could be, or even as closely as it should be.

And then there is the other issue: a perfectly logical taxonomy is nice, but we have to categorize the sites we find, and they can't always be fitted into proper niches without using a very large hammer.

The ODP can be better, and I hope you can contribute to making it so.