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Dead link

http://the-wizard-of-roz.com/http://the-wizard-of-roz.com/
in http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Coaching/United_States/ http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Coaching/United_States/
seems to be gone.

Check?

#821 - dead link removed thanks.

Sites in Regional/

One of the two cooled sites, http://officialcitysites.org/, is noting how it has been cooled by Dmoz itself! I wonder when they put that notice up - before or after the 9 countries they show. If Dmoz cools the site with only 4 countries, what kind of award does the site get for > twice that many countries?

DMO is dead at the moment.

Global Real Estate Project - My own opinion on this one is that this is a somewhat narrow subject matter for a top category.

International Center for Island Studies is "no longer in use" - they want you to go to Global Islands Network (GIN, as it were).

Island Directory - Isn't it improper to use website text verbatim without attribution, ie descriptions should at least be in quotes if so done? Better to write your own I'm sure.

Webteka - It could be mentioned this site is also available in the Russian language.
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I'm being just a bit picky here in that this *is* a top level category with no fewer than 20(!) resident and senior(!) editors, and yet not one seems to have taken a look at these sites lately.

#823

As I mentioned above, many editors will 'cool' official sites. So you can see the logic of picking out a directory of official sites. The correct place for it is at top level Regional, since it covers more than one continent.

Global Real Estate Project may be aimed at a particular class of users, but it contains the same type of general information on countries as the CIA Factbook and is correctly placed also.

Dead and redirecting links removed, thanks.

Island Directory - On the whole and generally speaking it is better for editors to write their own descriptions, but now and then a submitter provides a description which can be accepted unchanged. In a few cases the submitted description is exactly the same as the site subtitle. If it perfectly fits our own Guidelines, it may be used. Since the submitter grants us permission to use the provided description, there is no copyright issue. [If you would like to discuss this point further though, I would appreciate you starting a separate thread.]

Webteka - Although editors can and sometimes do say in a description that the site is available in other languages, this is not strictly necessary. It is more useful to list sites with more than one language version under all the languages concerned. Webteka could be listed with a Russian description in the Russian-language tree in World.

The top level Regional editors do not edit simply in the top level category. They edit the whole tree, which is huge. They are therefore extremely busy.

30 Links which may need looking at.

I've found about 30 or so Links which appear to be incorrect. As far as the dead links go, i don't know weather the web servers are down, or weather the sites do not exisit. The rest I thought may be worth pointing out. The 3 Regional ones I know need updating.


http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/ http://boards.funs.co.uk/ popups & invalid content.
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/ http://info-highway.co.community.everyone.net/ Discontinued site.
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/ http://www.virgin.net/chat/chatredirect.html Discountined site
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http://www.kailove.com/ in Computers > Internet > Chat which looks like a domain name renewal page, which has an option for someone else to renew


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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Bot_Services/
http://www.rent-a-bot.net Dead Link

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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/A/

http://www.absoluteirc.com/ Dead Link
http://www.adultchatnet.org/ No Pages
http://www.avatarirc.net/ Dead Link

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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/B/

http://www.ballbusters.net/ 403 Not Authorised
http://www.brasirc.com.br/ Wrong Langague for Cat?
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/C/

http://www.chatrooms.org Dead Link
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/D/

http://www.decafe.org/ Redirected to some advert/404 type page
http://www.drlnet.com/ Appears to be Non-English
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/F/

http://www.fadenet.net/ Appears to be irrelevant for cat.
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/G/

http://www.globirc.net/ Appears to be Non-English
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/H/

http://www.hanirc.org/ Appears to be Non-English
http://irc.htmod.com/ Forwards to another URL

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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/I/

http://www.ircstorm.net/ Appears to be a Dead Link
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/M/

http://www.mausoft.de/ Appears to be Non-English
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/N/

http://www.netfreaks.be/ 404 and Non-English
http://www.nitrousnet.net/ Dead Link
http://nolimitznet.org/ Dead Link
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/O/

http://www.ontorebd.com/ Parked Domain page
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/P/

http://www.ptek.net/ Dead Link
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/R/
http://www.angelfire.com/pro2/rebeldev.net/ Angelfire 404

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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/R/
http://routenet.org/ Forwards to http://nixfreak.org/

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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/S/
http://www.saltek.net/ Dead Link
http://www.scooshonline.com/ Wrong Cat - Its a webhosting company
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/W/
http://wiretek.sytes.net/ Dead Link
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/X/
http://www.xanthotech.com/ Web hosting
http://www.xnet.org/ Dead Link
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By the way can ya let me know if these are the kind of sites which should be reported. I don't know if i've submitted the right type of sites.

#825 Thanks for going to the trouble. These are just the right type of problems to report.

I have starting working on your list, but the ODP server is slow at the moment, so I have only got as far as http://www.kailove.com/ .

Dead / incorrect links

The link to "BrainFlower - Dotcom ideas" in the category Top: Business: Investing: Humor is currently linking to a page that no longer exists.

Also, "Psychic Dog - Psychic Dog predicts which stocks, under $20 to buy, sell or hold. " in the same category now leads to a number of pictures of a home under construction.

Just wanted to let you know.

Regards,

Mark

I found this one:

http://www.dpcsys.com/

The description for this site in the directory:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Consultants/Databases/

under Dana Point Communications has nothing to do with the site.

Found this dead link:

http://www.vizsoft.net/

It is listed in:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Consultants/Databases/

under VizSoft.

This link is dead.

http://www.aia.es/english/

Found it in:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Consultants/

Under AIA Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada.

rcarr said:

This link is dead.

http://www.aia.es/english/

Found it in:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Consultants/

Under AIA Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada.

Click to expand...

It looks like the link should be: http://www.aia.es/ There is a link on this page to the english part of the site.

rcarr said:

I found this one:

http://www.dpcsys.com/

The description for this site in the directory:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Consultants/Databases/

under Dana Point Communications has nothing to do with the site.

Click to expand...

It looks like this url was hijacked

Karen's gardening

The entry for Karen's gardening (http://www.peddler.com/garden/index.html) in http://dmoz.org/Home/Gardens/Designed_Gardens/Private/ goes to a domain reassignment page.
Rob

#825 continued.

I cannot find that www.chatrooms.org is or ever has been listed. www.chatroom.org (no s) is listed and working fine.

All dead links taken out and non-English sites moved now, thanks.

#827 dealt with, thanks.

The flexibilty of the Net is its greatest strength and our greatest challenge. Webmasters can and do redesign sites and change content all the time.

#828 dealt with, thanks. Clearly there has been a change of site owner since the listing, as gboisseau says.

#829 dealt with, thanks.

#830 dealt with, thanks. As gboisseau says.

#833 dealt with, thanks.

http://www.webcity.co.uk/chat/ No longer runs a chat service. Tho it does advertise something else.

Its in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/


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http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/Community_Chat/


http://www.white-lightning.co.uk/southroom/ Discountined.
http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/chat/ Seems to be a deadlink (Maybe the link below in the directory listing is the update and this old entry hasn't been removed? Maybe the site is just down at the time not sure.)

Dead/broken links

Here are a few dead or broken links.

http://www.jwproducts.com/

http://www.rockisland.com/~newmoon/shirts.html

Located in the following category.

http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/Custom/

Thanks,
David

#838 dealt with, thanks.

#839 dealt with, thanks.