Report Hijacks, Dead Links, Inappropriate DMOZ Content, and other issues here ONLY

brmehlman · May 12, 2004

Those aren't hijacks, dead links, or inappropriate content. Whether they belong in that category or not, I think I'll let others decide.

TimS · May 12, 2004

In Recreation/Outdoors/Fishing/Saltwater/

http://www.saltwaterfishinghomepage.com/

and

http://www.wmi.org/saltfish/index.html

Are mirror sites - the very first line in "submitting a site" on DMOZ states: "Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs."

Is that considered inappropriate content or would an abuse report be the proper tool?

Thanks.

Alucard · May 12, 2004

TimS - thank you very much - a good catch!

I have removed the listing for http://www.saltwaterfishinghomepage.com/ as it redirects to the other.

TimS · May 12, 2004

Here's another one

/Recreation/Outdoors/Fishing/Saltwater/

http://floridafishing.netfirms.com/ <--- redirects to a completely different website.

Alucard · May 13, 2004

TimS, thank you - once again, this has been fixed.

glitterball · May 13, 2004

dead link

http://www.bluedelfin.com/ listed in Top: Regional: Europe: Spain: Autonomous Communities: Canary Islands: Lanzarote: Recreation and Sports: Excursions apears to be dead.

xixtas01 · May 13, 2004

http://productreviewsite.homestead.com/diets.html which is listed as "Diet Central" in http://dmoz.org/Health/Weight_Loss/ Should be rereviewed, it does not appear to contain sufficient unique content to be listable to me.

shade_wo · May 14, 2004

category messed up

I’ve submitted more than a month ago a site in category
http://dmoz.org/World/Română/Afaceri/Energie_şi_mediu/
This would mean Power and Environment. The category has only 9 entries; I checked them and found things I believe somebody should be aware of:

1. The entry http://www.athenerg.ro/ goes to a site with exactly 6 pages. Homepage says the site is under construction, which is very true, since out of the other 5 pages, only two have some content, amounting to exactly 220 words altogether.

2. The entry http://www.ccc.as.ro/ leads to an “under construction” page which after 30 seconds redirects the user to the (I believe free) domain provider as.ro.

The other sites in category that have content, show little or no match with category name:

3. The entry http://www.topcad.ro/ is the site of a company dealing with topography and land survey, that has nothing to do with either power or environment.

4. The entry http://www.smartconsulting98.ro/ is the site of a probably very large company since it offers furniture, kitchen and bathroom accessories, vacuum cleaners, dusters, irons, floor polishers, and some water treatment equipment (the only item of some relevance here).

Hope this help

gryphon · May 14, 2004

Dead Links in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

Found a couple dead links while going through http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

Grace's Pastry http://www.graces-pastries.com came up as 'invalid account'

Heidi's Chalet http://www.heidischalet.com 'page you are looking for is unavailable'

gryphon · May 14, 2004

Additional dead link in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

Found 1 more dead link in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

Mr. Henrys
http://www.mrhenrys.com
page cannot be found

razsport · May 15, 2004

Broken Links

Hi,

I've found three broken links at: http://dmoz.com/Sports/Baseball/Directories/

The three broken links at this category are as follow:

1. Baseball Directory by String Bikini.com (for a week now this site has appeared as page cannot be found).

2. LinkAthletics.com-Baseball(page cannot be found).

3. Top 50 Baseball Sites (for a weeK now I've seen this site appear as page CANNOT BE FOUND).

razsport · May 15, 2004

more bad content

I found some more bad content.

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Baseball/News_and_Media/

The following 3 sites seem to be the same:

Baseball Primer
Baseball Stuff
Jim Furtado's Baseball Newsstand