Re: help if possible
Alan
Can I make the suggestion to you that if you have a problem with a local editor, that you contact an meta with your concerns privately. They will be slow to deal with your problem (read snowed under with work) but it will be looked at seriously if you have made a properly documented case
You do not add to your credibility by making the sorts of posts that you have made here.
There are a number (who knows how many) categories like Blackpool that may need some investigation to get a problem resolved. But chaos would rule if everyone posted the sort of first post you made in this thread. Problems, real or imagined, will only be resolved if evidence is presented objectively and via "the proper channels"
As I see it, you and Doug Smith have Internet "empires" that "control" much of the Internet information about Blackpool.
That in itself is no "crime", however it is if one or other (or indeed yet another person) of you gains unfair advantage of their own sites by either plugging their own sites, or deleting their competitors sites by dint of being a DMOZ editor.
I am sure that as a result of this thread a long hard look will be taken at the Blackpool category. Whether the final result makes you happy or not, by virtute of what decisions are taken with your and your competitors sites, remains to be seen.
But I remain convinced that you would have achieved more by taking your complaints up in the proscribed manner
