Status check

Hi there,

First of all thanks for setting up this forum, it's great to be able to get some feedback on posting to DMOZ.

I have 2 sites that I have been trying to get listed for several months and so I would appreciate any feedback you can give me on their submission status;

www.quality-villas.co.uk
I submitted to Regional/Europe/France/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/ way back in June, and have emailed 3 of the editors associated with the category but have never received a reply.

www.italiancookerycourse.com
I first submitted this site over a year ago to Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Culinary/ and then tried the Regional/Europe/Italy/Regions/Tuscany/Travel_and_Tourism category a few months later. Again, I have emailed the editors but never received any replies.

Any info on these 2 sites would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark Scriven.

I don't edit in any of the categories to which you submitted, but hopefully I can be of some help.

www.italiancookerycourse.com contains information about Casa Ombuto ( http://www.casaombuto.com/ ), which is already listed in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Italy/Regions/Tuscany/Localities/Poppi/ and http://dmoz.org/World/Deutsch/Regional/Europa/Italien/Toskana/Gastgewerbe/Unterkunft/Ferienwohnungen_und_-h%e4user/ . As a result, it looks like it was deleted from the queue in both categories a long time ago. In general, we list one main url for a business.

http://www.quality-villas.co.uk/ is a mirror of http://www.quality-villas.com/ and was not listed. Your agency is eligible for one listing in the appropriate subcategory of http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/ . I don't have time right now to check to see if it is already listed under one of your many url's (e.g. http://www.holiday-villa-france.com/ , http://www.luxury-villas-france.com/ , http://www.luxuryvillasfrance.com/ , http://www.qualityvillasitaly.co.uk/ ). Hopefully, both you and the editors more familiar with the England categories already know the answer.

Thanks for your help with this.

The Italian Cookery site and the Casa Ombuto sites are two different businesses. The Italian Cookery site promotes award winning culinary vacations based at Casa Ombuto, whereas the Casa site just promotes the villa itself for vacation rental. There is obviously some cross over but the actual businesses and products are different and do require seperate web sites.

What can I do to present my case for each site to be inculded in the database.

Thanks again.

In terms of a listing in Regional, you wouldn't get both the cooking class site and the hotel site listed -- the cooking class site is easily reached from the hotel site and acts essentially as a subsite of the hotel one. It wouldn't be unreasonable to ask that the description for the hotel listing mention that it has information about the class as well, though.

As for submitting it to http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Culinary/, it seems to me to be a reasonable fit for the category....and sites may be listed in both Regional and a topical category where appropriate. You are already waiting in the unreviewed queue there (contrary to what was previously noted, it has never been deleted from that queue) so all you need to do now is be patient.

Thanks for the clarification - we'll be patient and sit it out!

Oops. Sorry about misreading the logs, and any confusion from my post. Must have been having a bad day. <img src="/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" /> In my defense, one submission of http://www.italiancookerycourse.com/ was deleted back in 2001 from http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/ , though. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

And, to clarify further, I don't really see any reason why the cooking school shouldn't be listed in the Specialty_Travel/Culinary subcategory. It seems to be in line with the other sites listed there. Whether the main site or the "subsite" is listed would be an editorial choice (which is what I was really trying to say -- we usually don't link two URL's, if one is a subsite, but there are exceptions, and this may be one). Again, sorry for any confusion caused by my far too brief and unclear post.