New site: Same name + Editors

I am new here and have two questions;

1. Does it matter if a site has the same name as another, already registered, if it is within a very different activity area? (Many organisations have the same name...) The url's are of course different.

2. You state that an editor may not favour registration of her/his own web site. However, as I understand capacity is the major issue, just by spending time on correct registration of her/his own site (s)he will promote it. Is this the way round if one's site has not been registered for months, and probably because of waiting? (Though you never know the reason for waiting of course.)

Looking forward to comments

(Many organisations have the same name...)

Click to expand...

As you already explained, identical titles are not a reason for not listing.

You state that an editor may not favour registration of her/his own web site. However, as I understand capacity is the major issue, just by spending time on correct registration of her/his own site (s)he will promote it. Is this the way round if one's site has not been registered for months, and probably because of waiting?

Click to expand...

I don't really understand your point here. If an editor work on a certain category, he will usually list lots of sites, some suggested from the outside, some he searched on the internet himself. If his own site is among those, that's fine. Not only according to our guidelines, but according to common sense as well.

"Capacity" is not an issue regarding a single category, only regarding the whole directory. Any editor we accept should be able to handle the category he starts with, and the first few additional categories he requests, we make sure of that.

Answer OK!

Thanks for your answer. The main issues are clear now.

Regarding "capacity" I meant "time" - I understand from other threads that one main issue concerning registrations is non-paid editors lack of time, which is the prime reason for websites waiting for months or years.
In which case there is an obvious need for more editors.

Having enough or not enough time is not realy the issue.
When no editor is interested enough in a subject to spend his time in the category for that subject no suggested sites in that category will be reviewed. He will spend his time on subjects he likes and will list sites (which could be suggested or which he has found himself using other sources) in that category. And everything works as designed. Editors spend as much time as they like on subjects they like. Result: Editor is happy, DMOZ is happy.

non-paid editors lack of time

Click to expand...

Same as I explained with categories: Lack of time not so much on a per-editor basis (as pvgool explains), but for the directory as a whole.

When every editor is able to deal with a few categories efficiently, for ~600k categories, you would need... well, more editors than there are.