Hey, turn the brick over: you're looking at the situation down its long axis.
The problem is not (as it hardly ever is) that the editor read the guidelines more stringently than you did. The editor read the SITE...and did not yet find anything on there that would result in a listing.
Now, what's the problem? How would we know? Is there something hidden away in a dark corner of the site, that you couldn't find without a Guidebook to Zork, that really is valuable and unique, that WOULD make the site worth mentioning? Is it that you have that something valuable and unique stashed away on your server, waiting a word of encouragement to publish it? Is it that you so thoroughly mixed original and plagiarized content that the editor thought it was all plariarized?
We don't know that. We can't know that. Only you know that. Only you can decide whether you need to find unique content, simply publish unique content, prominentize your existing unique content with better navigation, or go peddle the site somewhere that unique content isn't a virtue. Sorry, but with the most determined intentions in the world, we still would simply be unable to answer that question for you. We do not have, and never could have, the information needed -- but that is information which you as the site developer must have.
So, why ask us?
