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mcoupal said:

Thanks zombie, taken care of.

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I got some more but I will post them later. I think I may clean up this category this way then apply to edit it as I have no sites to be listed in this category and I would have NO affiliation with people's personal web sites. Or maybe another one that has interest for me but I would have none of my own sites to list or have any affiliation. I will just clean up a few and apply later maybe.

http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Bears/Personal_Pages/

Jasper redirects to multiple affliliate sites. Redirects so fast I can't get a copy and paste of the url.

kiwicub - http://www.kiwicub.co.uk/ Returning DNS errors.

MrJames - http://www.geocities.com/mrjameshh/index.html Returns a white blank page

Pinner - http://www.geocities.com/mrjameshh/index.html Returns almost the same thing

QBearDetroit - http://www.geocities.com/qbeardetroit Same as pinner

RainbowBear - http://www.virtualave.net/403_error.html 403 Page no longer available

RogerBear returns this url http://members.tripod.com/frelancr/ but should be http://www.rodgerdodger.net

Sashazur - http://bear.sashazur.com/ Has nothing but under construction

Thats wraps up that category pretty much.

Dead Link (offered for sale)

Category:

http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/W/Waukesha/Education/

Link:

Waukesha Catholic Memorial Highschool
http://www.cathmem.org/ - Dead link. The URL is being offered for sale as "cathmem.org << BIG LINK POP! Plus DMOZ! OFFERS!" Also see the www.whois.sc listing: (type in URL): "This Domain May Be For Sale"

gckorn

Checked

I looked at it - definitely dead. But the whois record was made only a couple of months ago, and it is possible it may be down for maintenance or some other reason. As it is dead, I'll pull the site, and recheck every few days to make sure it really is. Thanks for posting.

zombie said:

http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Bears/Personal_Pages/

Thats wraps up that category pretty much.

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All fixed - thanks

Dead/Redirect Links: US>Maine>Science & Environment

The following category contains dead and redirected links:

http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Maine/Science_and_Environment/

The listings in need of repair are:

Dartmouth RARGOM
http://www-nml.dartmouth.edu/rargom/ - This link should be replaced by the redirected link, which is: http://zeus.mbl.edu/rargom/

Gardening to Conserve Maine's Native Landscape
http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/gardenME/ - This link should be replaced by the redirected link, which is: http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/2500.htm

Gateway to the Gulf of Maine Seaweeds by Algaetech
http://www.maine.com/algaetech/gateway/gateway.htm - The link is dead. There is a website for algaetech (http://algae.sch.ac.kr/main/main.aspx), but cannot find a relevant article within.

National Geographic: Unexplored Spaces by Virginia Morell
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/2000/biodiversity/biomes/index.cfm - The link is dead for it states "This Feature is No Longer Available."

gckorn
P.S. #310 is still open.

donaldb said:

All fixed - thanks

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No problem. Here's another category I swept thru today.

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http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Bears/Relationships/

Alain_and_Vincent - Link is http://www.geocities.com/bigbelbears/ but should be http://www.bigbelbears.com/

Ed_and_Scott shows a description of "Presenting their life, relationship, photos." "Presenting their online community forum” might be more appropriate. Or maybe moved to this Category - http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Chats_and_Forums/ As this site is now just a forum. Also the DMOZ link refers to http://obeythetoaster.com but it immediately redirects to http://obeythetoaster.com/forum

JohnandPaul - http://reddogshouse.homestead.com/RedDogOne.html Homestead shows disabled.

MarkBear_an_Fursus - http://www.angelfire.com/ego/2furryfinns Returns not available from Angel Fire.

Rob_and_Steve – http://www.powerup.com.au/~cuji Returns a 403

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This operation seems to move fairly quickly, would I be correct to say that the urls already listed in the directory that need updating are a higher priority than others parts of the operation? Seems to be a faster pace for updating currently listed sites.

This is nothing of any big issue how as I doubt the average searcher|surfer would even notice, how ever I notice some descriptions are written as first party and some are written as third party.

i.e.
Thier online community about gardening and landscaping.
Our online community about gardening and landscaping.

What is the perferred way?

Third person descriptions are now preferred, but this wasn't always as stringent. And yes, a lot more emphasis is put on the quality of stuff in the directory and making sure that it is valid content than the rush to submit new sites. We definitely strive for quality first, then quantity.

310 and 326 are done, and thank you.

327 is done - MarkBear_an_Fursus actually had a URL update waiting for review already.

I didn’t completely finish this category: http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Bears/

Bearcelona – DMOZ has this URL http://www.geocities.com/bearcelona/ but should be this url http://www.bearcelona.org/

BRear - Lounge – DMOZ has this URL http://www.brearlounge.com/ seems to be a typo and should be http://www.bearlounge.com/ Although all that is there is a Coming Soon. Maybe this isnt a typo but something isnt right with the listing.

Buffalo Bears - http://buffalobears.buffnet.net/ Returns nothing but a white page.

everquestbears - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/everquestbears/ Might be better suited in http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Mailing_Lists/ as it is a yahoo group.

Gay Bears Bed & Breakfast in London, UK - http://www.pride-holidays.com/kw.htm Might be better suited in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...esbian_and_Bisexual/Travel_and_Accommodation/ as it doesn’t really seem to be focusing on just the gay bear traveler.

Gay San Francisco Wolf / Bear Cub - http://www.sanfranciscobear.com/ appears to be dead (DNS error) as the who is doesn’t seem to reflect anything from San Francisco or even the US.

Northeastern Kansas Bear Club – DMOZ has this URL http://jctbears.tripod.com/ but should be this URL http://jctbears.xcaliburclub.com/

Ok now that category is wrapped up.

In the everquestbears listing, is it pretty much a judgment call as to where it should be placed?

http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Bisexual/Men/

Bi-Males – http://groups.icq.com/lifestyles/group.asp?no=1292803 appears to be a dead ICQ group.

It's OK Bi Me! - http://www.itsokbime.com/questionaire.htm returns a 403 and http://www.itsokbime.com/ returns a disabled account from Hypermart as Hypermart discontinued free accounts on Mar 01, 04 so this may return at a later date.

DMOZ Expired

I cannot read the language of the DMOZ listing, but this URL is listed on the web as being an "expired DMOZ" domain available for registration (obviously, someone has picked it up, and the language of the website is now English, as opposed to the DMOZ listing)(whois shows it was just registered on March 18):

Category:

http://dmoz.org/World/Svenska/Regio...Kommuner/Falkenberg/Kultur_och_underhållning/

Listing:

Falkenbergs Föreläsningsförening - Aktuellt program samt presentation av föreläsarna.
http://www.forelas.org/

gckorn
P.S. I apologize for submitting a prior post (which I've deleted) without first assessing whether the links already had been deleted from DMOZ (many had). There is enough to do without creating more effort for already completed work.

331, 332 and 333 are done.

I left everquestbears where it was on the theory that being about bear culture was more relevant for someone looking for it than was being a mailing list or group.

I don't read Swedish either, but I can see that forelas.org doesn't belong in dmoz in any language. Gone now.

No sweat about the superfluous post, gckorn. On the contrary, thanks for catching it before I'd gotten too far into it.

And thank you both for helping make dmoz a better directory.

These two sites are age restricted Yahoo Groups, they should be moved out of the general directory and into an adult listing?

http://dmoz.org/Society/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/Gay_Men/Chats_and_Forums/

Anyways here is the info:

The Renaissance Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/therenaissancegroup/
Street Diversity - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/street_diversity/

However without actually joining the group it doesn’t appear to be much adult material. So without joining the group it is hard to tell but you do have to state your 18 to get there.

I'm not seeing anything in the description of either of those groups that suggests Adult content by dmoz standards. And the descriptions haven't changed in any significant way since they were listed, so I'm pretty sure they're still ok.

I'm guessing that Yahoo has a different threshold for requiring adulthood to access than we do.

But don't let this slow you down. You're finding some bad stuff that I'm happy to eliminate, and I'll be even happier if you keep it up.

brmehlman said:

I'm not seeing anything in the description of either of those groups that suggests Adult content by dmoz standards. And the descriptions haven't changed in any significant way since they were listed, so I'm pretty sure they're still ok.

I'm guessing that Yahoo has a different threshold for requiring adulthood to access than we do.

But don't let this slow you down. You're finding some bad stuff that I'm happy to eliminate, and I'll be even happier if you keep it up.

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Ok that was my thought too as Yahoo can get a wild hair up thier ___ just over the word gay.....so they very well may be just covering them selfs.

Ok now I have a question. Im going thru category that does have an editor. Im still going thru the category cause I want too However should I report anything here if I find something? I dont want to get on anyones toes.

It depends on what you find.

Changed content, site taken over by something inappropriate, go ahead and post it here if you like.

If you feel that there's enough to embarrass the editor, a private message to a meta might be better.

And if you suspect deliberate abuse, you should send mail to http://report-abuse.dmoz.org/ .

ok very good.

I am assuming the number in ( ) after a directory level indicates how many total sites listed there and anything under it, assuming the sub categories were still in the same root directory? Are editors susposed to tally that or is that a generated number cause no matter how I add this up I dont get what is in the ( )