Site Removed

Recently this site was removed from the directory:
http://homepage.mac.com/dafitza

Why would a site get removed after being in the directory for over 6 months and having made no changes?

I am a little stumped at this one. <img src="/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />

Lots of possibilities:

1) Editor made a mistake in the first place, and it was corrected later.
2) ODP guidelines changed, and listing removed to comply with the new guidelines.
3) Site changed [OK, you've eliminated this one]
4) ODP reorganization

In this case, all three reasons seem to be involved: the site was considered borderline content, and apparently added to that category by accident..."unreviewed" later but moved to lies inappropriate categories (where there are therefore more lenient content criteria) for review.

To the question "what is the current status?" the answer is "waiting review in Arts/Visual_Arts/Multiple_Media_Artists/W".

In general terms site could get removed months after it was originally added for a number of reasons, including:
-- an editor reviewing sites in the category later determines that it shouldn't have been added in the first place (could be that it is already listed or it doesn't have enough content or any of a number of other criteria aren't met);
-- the site was unavailable for a long period of time when an editor was trying to re-review it;
-- it was added originally by mistake (slip of the keyboard finger) and the removing editor is just correcting the mistake.

In this case, you were deemed to not have enough content (which I kind of agree with since the site consists solely of the one Flash-driven poem). However, your latest resubmission is still waiting to be re-reviewed.

[edited to add: yeah...and what hutcheson said. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />]

One other possible reason is that the current editor thinks the site is too trivial, while the previous editor thought it was acceptable. Probably doesn't happen often, but possible in cats where the previous editor rubber stamped just about everything as approved.

Cool. Thanks for the informative reply Hutcheson. It's nice to see people are responding with relevancy to queries here. This often is lacking in other support forums across the web. Guess I will cross my fngers and wait. Dos Google drop sites from their directory when DMOZ drops them from theirs? That would suck!

Sorry, the answer is "yes". The good news, however, is that the Google directory can't be updated right now because of various problems (search for "RDF dump" in the forums) so the listing will stay there until they get that straightened out.

Doh! Oh well, no big deal for this site. It was basically passed around via blogs and emails anyway. Who needs DMOZ anyway! Just kidding. Thanks for answering all my questions Hutcheson. Take care.

Fitz, I think that you don’t need this one-page site...Your REAL site (lostbeauty.com) is VERY NICE. I enjoyed visiting it. Just advertise your main site. That one is unquestionably worthy of being listed in DMOZ. I hope you submitted it. You don’t need additional doorway-type pages…With time, if your site is good (and yours is), it will eventually be recognized as such. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Best wishes

msaw

I didn't make this site as doorway page. In fact, it has been around for almost a year now while the Lost beauty site has only been up a couple months. I put the site up because of some very positive feedback from people, and since it has been up I have gotten ALOT of positive feedback about it. Well over 200 emails. Heck the site was getting over 1000 hits a day last March, purely from emailing, blogs and flash resource sites far as I can tell. Anyway, I only linked it to my new site for obvious reasons, some people might be interested in my new work, so Google would find it, and to pass the PR over to Lost beauty, which I have just redesigned and is going to blow away the current site (which I haven't been happy with yet). Thanks for the positive feedback though. I did submit, forgot to where in the directory though so I have no way to check on it. See you!

&gt;&gt; http://homepage.mac.com/dafitza

Beautiful.