Editors pass, but profiles never die ?

I'd been an editor for six months, about two years ago, up to World:Français. I resigned at the time for various reasons I won't expand on here. As a matter of fact, I tried once or twice a come back, but could not get through ...

An interesting thing indeed is that my editor profile is still available at:
http://dmoz.org/profiles/universimmedia.html

... frozen in the state it was at the time of my resignation, including the last category I was editing ...

This page is even well referenced on Google for exemple.

I wondered if my count could be reactivated, since I discovered it was a new feature. But when I tried, I had the answer "no such editor universimmedia" ... the same anwer you get if you try "Send to universimmedia" on the profile page ...

So that is strange indeed. If I were to ask to edit again, I suppose I should try under a new pseudo (pubsubj for example). But I see in the guidelines that the same person being editor under two different pseudos is an abuse ...

Another thing : the information in this public page has been put by me, but I can't access it any more to correct it, although I know this information is obsolete.

Is that normal or even legal? What do you think? At least this page could be annotated in some way to show that this information is obsolete since ... (can't remember the exact date anyway)

Excelent question one more time!
Who are you? Are they suspect to understand it?
Hope you'll find an other solution to your problem.
France is a specific country in which it's very hard to become an editor.
Then if you're an old one... It's worse.
Have a good will,
Yann
An futur-ex-new-editor who will be a futur-new-ex-editor-old-futur etc...

Hi,

You can ask to have your account reinstated at:
http://dmoz.org/reinstate.html

I wondered if my count could be reactivated, since I discovered it was a new feature.

Did you fill out this form? If you did, and it still doesn't work for you, email me and I'll reinstate your universimmedia account.

Please could you too accept my application rejected by a french editor?
Thank's for advence.
Yann

Bataan, since you never were an editor I cannot "reinstate" your account.

Thanks i was not an editor. I knew it.
Could you help me to become one?
Thanks for you help. I didn't yet understand why i was rejected.
Yann

As apeuro said, you've got good advice at this thread as well as in the French thread. Please either follow them or be more specific in your questions, as apeuro explained.

Thank you. /images/icons/smile.gif

Thank's a lot, i understand it's a closed group.
You're in and i'm out.
It's OK, but obviously too hard for a volunteer.
Thanks for your time, i was nevertheless happy to meet a chinese guy.
Have a good will allthought i think there's no way.

Hey bataan, you are not even reading what editors write, do you? You where given all information we can give to you.

There is no other way to become an editor but filling the request form, giving good example sites with good descriptions and being honest when filling the form.

Even editors who want to edit in a second category have to go through this. That's standard-procedure in ODP as part of our quality management program. /images/icons/smile.gif

[But why do I bother writing this as it seems it wont be read anyway]

Thanks apeuro for your answer.

> Did you fill out this form?

Yes, I tried but, since I did not find my password, after two years and many other ones passing by, I went to :

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/forgot.cgi

And got the answer "no editor universimmedia" ... so I am stuck.

> If you did, and it still doesn't work for you, email me and I'll reinstate your universimmedia account.

If that is possible, good idea and thanks for the proposal. But if/when my account is reinstated, what happens next? I suppose I will have to request editing rights in a basic category, like any newbie, right?

bataan

Could you please stick to the thread's subject?. You have already opened several threads for your specific issue, and there is a basic policy guideline in *any* on-line forum, which is not to hijack threads for one's personal questions ...

And please understand that this has nothing to do with some conspiracy of those who are in ODP against those who are out there - which is BTW a common but simplistic-dichotomic-paranoid view of the world. Things are much more complex.

Merci!

>I will have to request editing rights in a basic category, like any newbie, right?

If an account is reinstated, it normally returns to the state you see when looking at the profile. We hope that you didnt forget what you learned before /images/dmoz/purplegrin.gif

If some of the original categories where lost due to reorganizations it should be possible to regain them.

Just a remark: If you where away from ODP for very long, make sure your knowledge about guidelines and editing style is up to date. There might have been significant changes /images/icons/smile.gif

windharp

> If an account is reinstated, it normally returns to the state you see when looking at the profile.

I'm curious to know if things will happen "normally" /images/icons/smile.gif

> We hope that you didnt forget what you learned before.

You mean like posting explosive threads and making sarcastic answers? Think I did not forget that. Even improved I'm afraid /images/dmoz/purplegrin.gif

> If some of the original categories where lost due to reorganizations it should be possible to regain them.

Don't think so. The only category in my last profile was
http://dmoz.org/World/Fran%e7ais/Sciences/Astronomie/
and it's still there alive and well. Maybe the current editor would be astonished to see me come back. Anyway I would me more interested currently to edit something like:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Knowledge_Representation/

This category needs an editor /images/icons/smile.gif

> If you where away from ODP for very long, make sure your knowledge about guidelines and editing style is up to date. There might have been significant changes.

I'll check that of course. Is mispelling authorized now? - forget it, just checked ... laisha is still around /images/icons/smile.gif

I've reinstated your account. Please let me know if you didn't receive my email, or the password reminder I sent you. /images/icons/smile.gif

Thanks apeuro, the account seems to work, and I even could change my profile - to an empty one so far, since I have no category to edit as the moment.

The only bug is I can't access to Forums. Get the answer: "Sorry, can't obtain your editor information".
Is it because I have no editor category?

Anyway ... so far, so good /images/icons/smile.gif

You have mail /images/icons/smile.gif
(Hopefully you have reading access now, as well.)

Regards, Hilde

Thanks to all who cared. Now I have access to the Forums too /images/icons/smile.gif
All I have to do now is waiting for my category submission to be accepted ...

Welcome back and enjoy your editing.

Thanks to all for your efficiency, I'm very impressed.

In a few hours I've got back my editor login and a category to take care of.
It feels like being welcome back home, really. I don't know who is exactly responsible for what, so ...

... a bunch of cheers to all the meta team /images/icons/smile.gif /images/icons/smile.gif