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riz · Oct 22, 2005

riz · Oct 22, 2005

Different Category

Website: Mary Noris Strang - RE/MAX Hill Country

Current Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/L/La_Farge/
Comments: Website clearly states that the realtor is located in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Suggested Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/V/Viroqua/

riz · Oct 22, 2005

Is this an appropriate listing in this Sub-Category?

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/T/Tomah/

Website: CNN.COM Weather

riz · Oct 22, 2005

No Content

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/T/Tomah/Business_and_Economy/

Website: Mc Beans Printing and Signs
Comments: Explore Wisnosin Page, may be a former member

riz · Oct 22, 2005

Empty subcategories

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/T/Tomah/Society_and_Culture/

Was this subcategory created for the sake of creating a new subcategory? It was last edited in January of this year. I am speculating that there were resources listed here that no longer exist. What happens in this case? Does the subcategory lives on forever, without any need or want for it?

riz · Oct 22, 2005

A redirect

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/S/Sparta/Business_and_Economy/

Website: Sparta Foxxy Shopper
Comments: It redirects to La Crosse Foxxy Shopper

arubin · Oct 22, 2005

In item1620,

riz said:
http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/L/La_Crosse/Weather/

Why does this category exist? All the websites are national. If these site can be listed in this local subcategory, shouldn’t all of these be listed in each and every local subcategory?

Some of us agree with you -- there's been some debate in the internal fora about that.

Artisands · Oct 22, 2005

Item #1621, #1622, #1624 and #1626 are done. Regarding #1623 - the listing does offer local weather. Thanks

Artisands · Oct 22, 2005

Regarding #1625:

What happens in this case? Does the subcategory lives on forever, without any need or want for it?

You are correct that there were previous listings in the subcategory. An effort will be made to locate new sites rather than removing it. I found one, if you know of any others that would be appropriate here, please feel free to submit them. Thanks for your help

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Dead Links

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/R/Readstown/
Website: Critter Cuts and Kennels
Comments: Expired domain

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/C/Coon_Valley/
Website: St. Mary's Parish
Comments: Displaying the actual contents of the directory on the server!

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/D/De_Soto/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/
Website: Don Turner - Four River Realty and Log Homes
Comments: Blank Page

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Not a dead link

I must have stopped by during an outage. The site works fine as cgispy confirmed it.

cgispy · Oct 23, 2005

riz said:
Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/H/Hillsboro/
Website: Hillsboro
Comments: Dead link

Where did you find a dead link? The actual site loads fine for me when I visited it and I browsed for a few minutes and didn't find any dead links.

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Bait and switch?

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/H/Hillsboro/
Website: Sentry-Enterprise
Comments: As you can see, this is just one page site for Web Media Inc. None of the site links work. The only links that works are for the outbound links of supposedly their clients. The description in ODP must have been form the previous, legitimate website. Anyhow, there is no mention of Sentry Enterprise any where on this website.

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Regarding #1632: I must have stopped by during an outage. Thank you for taking the time to check it.

cgispy · Oct 23, 2005

riz said:
Regarding #1623: I must have stopped by during an outage. Thank you for taking the time to check it.

No problem, you might want to edit that post out so no one mistakenly deletes the site.

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Regarding #1630

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/D/De_Soto/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/
Websites: Don Turner - Four Rivers Realty and Log Homes and Marty Earlandson - Four Rivers Realty and Log Homes
Comments: Same realty office, two realtors. Don's website seems dead. May be up for sale?

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Dead Link

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Counties/Adams/
Website: Adam County Wisconsin Property Tax and Assessment System
Comments: Dead link

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Is this a redirect?

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Business_and_Economy/Advertising_and_Marketing/
Website: Spreacher Bertalot
Comments: It redirects to Make Noise, Just a page. The description in DMOZ does not describe what’s on the redirected website now.

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Same company, three different urls with same content

Category: /www.dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Wisconsin/Localities/G/Green_Bay/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/
Websites: GreenBay Net , Trinet-e Telecomunications Inc and Web Genies
Comments: All three urls point to the same website, in the same subcategory.

riz · Oct 23, 2005

Is #1639 considered spamming the directory?

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