As far as what types of sites are supposed to go into this category in particular, I have to disagree. If it were a site that only sold or gave away free classified ads, it wouldn't go into that category at all.... it would go somewhere else, like:
http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Classifieds/Automotive/
which has the following category description:
"Sites which offer an automotive online classified ad service[...]"
...so, I think you are wrong. Also, if you look at the description of the category I submitted to, there was no qualification as to how many cars you needed in order to list the site.... it just said cars, with an ‘s’... as in plural, which means more than one... and we have TWO, not one, as you misstated, so I’m not sure how much faith I have in your re-review... and the purpose of the shopping section is in fact to ‘sell’, which of course, is what we are trying to do. This tells me it was the right category to submit to.
If you look at the description of this category, for example:
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Vehicles/Autos/Custom_and_Collector_Cars/Antique_and_Classic/
...you will see the following description:
“Only sites offering rare vintage cars will be listed here. To be listed in this category, at least 10-15 cars must be listed on a site, and there should be a clear indication that the dealer caters primarily to buyers from outside the city or state in which the dealership is located. Exceptions can be made for smaller inventory, if the cars offered are extremely rare or famous...."
I don't expect you to know what a "Special Hi-Performance L-89 personally supervised by Zora Arkus Duntov, Chief Engineer of Corvettes from 1962-1973" means, but it means the only other one in existence we know of was sold at auction for $118,000 ... which means that this car is extremely rare... in fact, it says RARE in the description, among other places, if you didn’t realize that the same car with the standard engine is about $80,000 cheaper... but I don’t think it should go in that category either, because we are NOT a dealer, but my point is if there was a minimum number, it should be stated in the description, like the one above.
But the thing that is really irritating me though, was that my original post, which I edited at the request of one of the mods here (because it supposedly had no bearing on anything) was an extensive discussion about exactly where this site belonged with a discussion about a number of different categories and their corresponding descriptions. To top it off, the editor who I was writing back and forth with agreed that it was indeed the correct category, just that there was no editor and I would have to wait... maybe even a year. You would have also seen that I was attempting to find the right category, not only from him, but this forum as well, seeking advice and further instruction. So to wait a year and a half to hear that this site has no place in the directory because you only want to list ‘big’ sites, just kills me. I can’t believe that those are the only sites that the ODP wants to list.... the idea is to list totally original sites, with unique content, that may not be found elsewhere in the directory or other places on the web.
FYI, I just did a search on Google for “L-89” WITH quotes:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q="L-89"&btnG=Google+Search
...and the only L-89 Corvettes I could even FIND were Die-Cast MODELS. I search for “L-89 Corvette” WITH quotes yielded NOTHING useful. They suggested I try "L89 Corvette" which turned up a car, but they had changed out the engine to an LS-7, which is not at all the same thing. The only thing I could find was a great article on the L-89 option discussed here:
http://students.umeciv.maine.edu/Clyons/L89.htm
...which talks about a 1967 L-89... 1 of 16 ever built and the only one left. So even Google has no knowledge of ANY 1969 L-89s. Seems to me that having this site in your directory would actually be of benefit to you by having the ONLY 1969 L-89 IN THE WORLD which is for sale in your shopping section... seems to me that this in and of itself MAKES this site big enough to warrant inclusion. It just pisses me off, have multiple editors waste their time dealing with this, as well as wasting my time trying to understand that it is somehow OK to wait this long only to have someone tell me afterwards that I submitted to the wrong category. This site belongs in ODP. If you don’t have a category that it can fit into, then make one, or put it in the one that bests fits it, like the “Antique_and_Classic” category. If we could just sell the car down at ‘Quality Used Cars’ in downtown Philipsburg (population 7,000) don’t you think we would have tried to do so already? If we sell both cars, believe me, I’ll yank the listings and the site will come down. This is from the contact page, that I doubt you took time to visit:
“*Please note: Before attempting to contact us, please make sure you read the entire About Us page, which talks about us, the cars, as well as pricing and trades. We are not interested in buying any additional cars, nor trading cars. We also do not want to sell any additional cars for you, nor is that our business. These Corvettes are simply for sale by the owner, and if you have read everything on this site, and still have questions pertaining to the purchase of either of these two cars, you may use the contact information listed below”
... does this sound like we are interested in having people continue to contact us after we sold the cars? As far as what happens to ODP data after you give it away, I don’t think you should concern yourself with others people outdated web sites, as the web is littered with dead information ...and as far as I’m concerned, short of a couple big players, all you do is create duplicate information, which just about as useful as dead web sites. So if you are so concerned about outdated information you should put it into the TOS when they grab your dump. Seems to me that a category that had only one listing a year and a half ago, and has only two now, wouldn’t be that hard to keep track of... but what do I know? I thought that after all this time writing letters, posting threads, asking for help, someone would have had ample time and the decency to step up and just tell me a year ago that there was no way this site was going to get in, because it wasn’t BIG enough.
