Maui.us, Lanai.us, etc

I own several sites, and manage the rest. I am concerned about someone interpreting the odp guidelines in the wrong light and coming to the wrong conclusion.

The sites are about each individual island in the Hawaiian chain, and they are VERY different from each other.

They link to each other, are .US domain levels, and share some navigational graphics. There are similarities that are intentional, but no one will get them confused.

I am concerned that editors took one look at that and declined to include them.

Content on these sites is very specific to the island at hand, including original text, articles, and reviews.

I do not think it is fair that with writing a large quanity of extremely different body text that I would now have to go back and make them extremely different graphically too.

Anyone?

maui.us, oahu.us, lanai.us, molokai.us, etc.....

It's not just those -- although THAT'S bad enough by our standards. If those were your only sites, a root site (say, with a map of Hawaii, and clickable links on each island pointing to the island-specific site ) could be suggested once in a state-wide http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Hawaii/ category. Even without a parent site, one of the sites might be suggested in a state-wide category. If an editor for that island feels that your island specific site deserved a special listing, he could add it.

However, you have a number of other sites, all of which qualify as mirrors or partial mirrors by our standards. If you were to list all of your sites, and specify which you own and which you manage, it's possible that one site that you own and some of the ones that you only manage might conceivably be listed on their own merits. However, if you miss one that we've found, they will probably all be removed.

Edited after the next post was written

Well, if you are concerned about this, one suggestion would be for you to come up with one site which is a "root" site - which provides navigation to each of the sites for each island. That way users would have an easy starting point to go back and forth between the islands.

Reviewing editors might decide to list them all, or might decide to list none of them, depending on the content of the site. I have looked at none of the sites, so am making no review of them here).

Hope this helps.