Status for http://www.butlerproductions

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

What if your state, county or city is not listed for your category ?

I own a mobile DJ service located in Minnesota. The most accurate category to submit my site to is not available for Minnesota but there are several other states that are available. What do I do ? Below is the category that I would like to submit http://www.butlerproductions.com . If it is possible to break it down into counties or cities within the DJs category that would be even better.

Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Arts and Entertainment: Music: DJs

shadow575 · Feb 16, 2005

This forum is for checking the status of a site already submitted and may be moved. You should submit to the most appropriate subcategory and if it is needed an editor will move to a better location.

Without looking in great detail at your site (just a quick, very quick glance) I might be inclined to suggest it to:
Regional/North_America/United_States/Minnesota/Localities/E/East_Bethel/
just based on your contact phone number listed on your site. Regional listings are located in the locality where they reside vs where they operate.

In the end you need to just suggest it to what you believe to be the best specific category and someone will move it if necessary.

If it is possible to break it down into counties or cities within the DJs category that would be even better.

Many locality sub cats have Arts and Entertainment subcategories for Music and/or DJ's. Your locality (based again on your contact phone number) is very small right now and at this time doesn't have a subcat breakdown yet. Perhaps in the future more quality sites will be listed and a restructuring can be done.

Hope that helps.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

http://www.butlerproductions.com not accepted in the suggested category ?

I have tried submitting it to that category but it was not accepted. I did this almost a year ago. That is why I thought it was not the right specific category. What do you suggest I do ? Do they still have my submission information ?

shadow575 · Feb 16, 2005

I have minimal access to that area of regional. I can see where an editor did look at the site back in August. It appears it was submitted to the Minnesota/Counties/Anoka and the editor felt it better suited in East_Bethel as I thought. They appear to have moved it for you to await review. I cannot see anymore information than that.

I suggest you use this thread and request a formal status update. You should read the Posting Guidelines first to properly format the request and also to stay compliant to the rules. Someone with higher permissions than I have in that area can then let you know if it is still pending or if you need to resubmit. Again all the above comments are made without really looking at the site. There is no guarantee that any suggested site will be accepted. The best thing to do is formally request an update and someone will be able to provide you with the most recent status information.

I urge you to read the Guidelines first though. So you understand what to expect and how to proceed. Sorry I cannot provide any better information at this time.

Thanks.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

Please let me know the status of http://www.butlerproductions.com, submitted in August 2004, to

1. http://dmoz.org/Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Counties: Anoka

I understand that it was moved to the following category for review.

2. http://dmoz.org/Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Localities: E: East Bethel

Any update on whether it has been accepted or denied. Do I need to re-submit it to a different category. A more specific category or subcategory may be :

Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Metro Areas: Minneapolis.St.Paul: Arts and Entertainment: Music: DJs

I do know that there are several hundred DJ companies that would fit in this category. Please advise on what you reccommend I do to become part of this awesome and powerful directory.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

status for http://www.butlerproductions.com

Since the actual city I am located in is extremely small and since I serve the entire Twin Cities area, do you think I would best fit into this category ? I think it is more specific for the persons searching for my services.

Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Regions: Twin Cities: Arts and Entertainment: Music

Thanks in advance for your prompt response.

Mark

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

I have one more question to discuss regarding the category for my company's website http://www.butlerproductions.com. The majority of events I perform my services for are Weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. Is there any subcategory for Minnesota that might work for either of those areas. I will have to say, this directory is by far the most thorough and accurate directory on the web. I appreciate the dedication of it's editors to properly categorize the listings.[/B] Thank you.

bobrat · Feb 16, 2005

Listings in Regional are based on company location, so If you are located in Alaska, and only serve customers in California, you still get listed in Alaska.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

That does make sense. Is there any reccommendation you can give me for my specific type of service ? I really appreciate all your efforts.

bobrat · Feb 16, 2005

I've done some checking and it seems that there has been some discussion that DJ's could be listed by service area - however, since this is unusual, not everyone will be aware of this.

Based on that it would seem that in http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/DJs/

there should be an entry @pointing to Minnesota which would be Regional/North_America/United_States/Minnesota/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/DJs/

And in that category there should be a @pointer to Twin Cities =>

Regional/North_America/United_States/Minnesota/Regions/Twin_Cities/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/DJs

Maybe another editor with more knowledge of this will comment.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

http://www.butlerproductions.com

Thanks for all your help, bobrat. You were very informative. Is there another area in this forum I should start another thread or what would you advise ?

spectregunner · Feb 16, 2005

Well, before we start discussing other threads, let's see if we can get you the status check you asked for. If you'll kindly provide clickable links to the categories where you made your submissions, one of the editors here will take a peek and let you know where you currently stand.

mbutler · Feb 16, 2005

Thank you very much for responding so quickly. I have applied for an editor position and hope I will be able to contribute to this directory & forum as well as you guys are. Again, very nice job.

I believe that I submitted to this category:

Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Counties: Anoka

but I was told by another editor in this forum that I was moved to this category:

Top: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Localities: E: East Bethel

and it was suggested by bobrat that I should really be listed in this category (which is currently not available) in this forum discussion.

Regional/North_America/United_States/Minnesota/Regions/Twin_Cities/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/DJs

I thank you again for your assistance & look forward to becoming part of your awesome team of editors.

uzs980 · Feb 16, 2005

A clickable link would be something like this: Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Localities: E: East Bethel ... and your site is waiting for review in that category.

Good luck with your editor application!

bobrat · Feb 16, 2005

Upon further checking, the information I posted above should be ignored - it's hypothetical, and might happen, but not for a single site. Sorry to give you false hopes. When reviewed, an editor will decide at that time, the best category.

mbutler · Feb 17, 2005

Again, I would like to thank you for all your wisdom and for taking the time to check into this for me. I hope to have the opportunity to be part of your team of quality editors.

mbutler · Feb 17, 2005

Thanks for checking into this for me. I am relatively new at this and certainly appreciate you looking into the details of my submission. Is there any way of telling where I am in the cue for that categorty ? I know there aren't many people listed in it at this time. That wasn't the category I applied for to be an editor. Can I change the category for my application or how does that work ? Everybody that has responded to this forum has been extremely helpful and I can't thank you enough.

shadow575 · Feb 17, 2005

mbutler said:
Is there any way of telling where I am in the cue for that categorty ? I know there aren't many people listed in it at this time.

It is more of a pile rather than cue. The pile can of course be reviewed by date or in alphabetical order, but it can also be reviewed completly at random by the editor depending on what their individual goal is for the day.

If we were to say you were #4 out of 100 it would really be irrelevent, we could also tell it was #89 out of 100. In either case an editor might look at the site in ten minutes or 2 years from now. It really is unpredictable. Smaller categories especially regional localities (in my experience at least) tend to recieve less suggestions and most sites are found by interested editors. That means:

A smaller category might have fewer suggested sites in the queue, therefore making reviewing easier for an interested editor.
Editor interest in the category might be low due to size of the category and even one with less than 20 suggested sites awaiting review may take a while before anyone wants to work through them.
Someone could take an interest and clean up the small piles here and there today.

or
The editor working in the area may simply decide to go out and look for good sites on their own to add.

So it would just give a false sense of hope or dispair to attempt to assign a position to any given suggestion.

spectregunner · Feb 17, 2005

We don't give out numbers on the size, shape or color of a given queue because the numbers re really meaningless. A queue could consist of a single site, and be editied tomorrow, or be ignored for the next three years. Similarly, a queue with 150 submissions could be ignored for a few more years, or could be cleaned up within a week. Plus, there is no standing within a queue (we think of them as pools). You are either in or out.

Someone betteer qualified will have to answer your query on your application status -- we try and have those questions only answered by the editors who actually handle applications

motsa · Feb 17, 2005

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