multilingual site: how much content is 'content' ?

LucieF

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Hello,

I hope you may be able to help.

I have a website which has been professionally translated by (paid-for) translators in its entirety from the English original into the following languages
1/French
2/German
3/Spanish
4/Dutch
5/Japanese

Having read the DMOZ guidelines,I am clear on the point that I will (aim to) submit the url to each of the world catagory editors for the given language. (No problem there,I hope)

However,it is another, related issue which concerns me.

On my homepage,I have a selection of flags indicating languages and clicking on any of the 5 above leads you through to the site in that language.
However,I also have a following 4 flags displayed on the homepage (in the below languages) which,when you click on them,give you a shorter precis of the site,our services as well as a 'dummies-guide' (approx. 2 A4 typed sheets worth of info )
Again,this has all been done by professional translators.

* swedish
* danish
* finnish
* polish
* portuguese

My question to you is this - can these precis (pl?) be considered as valid 'content' in their given language or is the fact that they are not 'mirror translations' of the original english site in its entirety mean that I am not able to put my site forward to the editor looking after the catagory in that language?

thanks ,

LucieF
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nea

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A site can be listed in several different languages even if the whole site isn't translated. It's impossible to say whether it is listable or not without knowing the URL, though.
 

LucieF

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Thank you.
In that case,I will submit to the relevant catagory and keep my fingers crossed (!) :)
 

senox

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Each language version will be reviewed on its own merits, provided your site isn't one of those we generally don't list (i.e. MLM, affiliate link farms etc.).

That means that editors may consider a site adds sufficient unique content in one language, but not in another one, therefore, depending on the circumstances, not all language versions of the same site might be accepted.
 
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