My site (racecar2000.com) suddenly removed...

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mcgarry

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Hello,

My site has suddenly disappeared from DMOZ after being listed for quite a while here:
http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Motorsports/Auto_Racing/Classifieds/

Here is the information as it was listed in DMOZ:
Title = Race Car 2000 Classifieds
URL = http://www.racecar2000.com/
Description = Offers listings for buying, trading, or selling race cars, racing car parts, and auto racing collectibles. Includes photographs, and links.

Although, it seems to show up if I run a DMOZ search on "racecar2000.com"???

Is this a glitch?

Thanks for your help,
Chris
 
jimnoble

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'Your' directory appears to contravene the terms of our license agreement.

On the other hand, I suppose it could be entirely coincidental that your category structure and content mirrors ours :) .
 
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mcgarry

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Hi jimnoble,

Thanks for your helpful response. No, your right "my bad" I had the attribution on some of my sites but not others. An honest oversight on my part. I have now added the attribution to all of my sites now (I believe from the license agreement that is what is needed). Please let me know how I can be re-included. Will I need to resubmit (ugh)... or do you have a magic wand? :)

Again thank you,
Chris
 
pvgool

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No, your attribution is not correct.
Look at our samples.
 
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Hi pvgool,

Thanks for looking. I want to make this right. I believe what I'm lacking is the $cat part in the URL. I will add this today/tonight. It is a little involved because I had imported the data over a year ago and I did not keep the original category path. That's ok I will fix it. Data entry gotta love it!!

Chris
 
jimnoble

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You need to correct all of them before resubmitting.

If you're using our data, you need to comply with the license conditions full stop. Whether or not you plan on suggesting an individual URL to ODP is irrelevent.

The sentence on your directory page We have gone to great expense and spent a lot of time to create a racing directory of links to car racing sites, auto racing sites, professional driver sites, and car racing sites of all types and descriptions seems a tad exaggerated. I'm sure the reviewing editor will feel really appreciated when s/he sees that.
 
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Thanks jimnoble I will.

I understand what your saying on the "great expense and spent a lot of time" text also. That may give me sour grapes too (if I was editing).

Thanks again,
Chris
 
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mcgarry

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Hello,

This is strange to me. I had fixed all of the sites last month and resubmitted them all on 3-12-2005. Then today I went to go ask about my main site http://www.racecar2000.com/ in the shopping site submission status forum. I posted a message (it went through cause I saw it) then it disappeared. A while later I submitted a second message (thinking ok that was wierd) and the same thing happened. Obviously my messages are being removed but I'm not sure why. I believe I'm following the guidelines when asking but I'm in the wrong somehow I guess.

Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong so I can ask for a submission status?
Thanks,
Chris
 
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That is great news! Thanks djdeeds and have a fantastic weekend!

Chris McGarry
 
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