How can I verify authentication?

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Banbin

I proposed my application for editor and the response is given below:

"Your Open Directory editor application could not be confirmed.
The error received was:
Bad authentication ticket"

The category I'm applying is "http://dmoz.org/World/Chinese_Simplified/%b2%ce%bf%bc/%bd%cc%d3%fd/%c1%f4%d1%a7/".

or
http://dmoz.org/World/Chinese_Simplified/%b5%d8%c7%f8/%c5%b7%d6%de/%d3%a2%b9%fa/%bd%cc%d3%fd/

My email used for application is: banbin@youngchina.cn

I will be grateful if anyone can help me with the application status. I would like very much to be one member of editors, and I am professional and experienced in the area I'm applying.

I'm full ready to provide any evidence needed if neccessary.
 

donaldb

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We will not even see your application until that confirmation reply is successful. Try to send the reply again but make sure that only the confirmation number is in the subject line of your reply. I suspect that you may also be using a Chinese character set in your e-mail program and that might be changing the numbers in the confirmation number. If you are still unsuccessful with the reply, then post the confirmation ticket number here and one of us can get tech support to push it through.
 
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Banbin

Many thanks for your kind reply. Actually I had sent the confirmation reply. What a shame that I received a rejection letter an hour ago! To be frank, I was quite dissapointed at the message. It listed possible reasons in the email.

I thought the problem might be the authencity.

I was quite confident at my own experience in international education and the area of overseas studies though.

I had worked in European Department for an educational consulting service centre for three years.
Before this, I participated in two international programme on education, one run by the US-based educational institution and the other by a Candian university, and also, I was once assisgned an assistant to experts in teacher's training programme run by British Consulate-general in Shanghai.

I believe that I am the candidate second to none at that category. And that's the reason why my own's website in this area can gain so many first-places in google key-words search.

I wonder if I still have a chance to re-apply.
If necessary, I'd like very much to submit my resume. I'm full ready to communicate with editors so that you may take a closer look at me.
 

hutcheson

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Yes, you can always re-apply -- if you figure out what you did wrong the first time, it is even encouraged.

A general comment, by someone who didn't see your first application and therefore can't comment directly on IT:

Don't focus so much on your credentials as your portfolio: that is, the kind of sites and descriptions that you would be adding if you were an editor. Most of our editors are not the people who "wrote the book" on their topic (although there are exceptions!) What we're looking for is someone who can review a website, describe it succinctly, and categorize it accurately. If you can do that, we can use the help. If you can't, it doesn't matter how many credentials you have.

This is not to denigrate credentials, but to explain why you shouldn't expect us to pay much attention to them when reviewing applications.
 
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Banbin

Many thanks for your kind reply. I've submitted a second application under the account "banbin" (real name: YANG Yibin) a couple of minutes ago.

The category I'm applying to is on British education, but it's in simplied Chinese:
"http://dmoz.org/World/Chinese_Simplified/%b5%d8%c7%f8/%c5%b7%d6%de/%d3%a2%b9%fa/%bd%cc%d3%fd/"

I'm a little bit worried as I wonder if there's any editors professional in both simlified Chinese and the British Education, the category I am applying to.

And I doubt if my application result will be limited by their understanding upon British education.

I would like to become one of moderators here sometime to help other applicants just as all of you did. I can speak English, French, Chinese as well as survival Japanese.
 
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