Status of http://www.darlingandwild.co.uk

Please let me know the status of http://www.darlingandwild.co.uk, submitted to
1. http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Kent/Tunbridge_Wells_Borough/
(note - after submitting to this category, which, at the time, contained another florist and a couple of other businesses, I queried whether these sites should actually be in this category. They have now been removed, but I'm not sure where this leaves my submission. Having reviewed the list, it should probably be in Business_and_economy, but at the time, comparable businesses were not in this subcategory, so I assumed - possibly wrongly- that my site should be in the parent category)

2. http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe...iness_and_Economy/Shopping/Flowers_and_Gifts/
(note that this category seems to have since been rationalised and all entries moved to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Flowers/ which I hope my site should now be queued up for - or do I need to resubmit?)

In August, rejected for insufficient content. The site is indeed minimal, but I wouldn't regard a resubmittal to the Regional category as unreasonable -- in fact, if I were to review it today, I'd probably list it.

My recommendation: resubmit to the Locality, and bump this thread in a month to recheck the status.

Just a quick note re: the England level. As it regularly causes confusion

The England level is treated as a locality.

The UK level is not.. its treated as a separate topical directory for UK businesses with a national reach.

Let me try to explain:

If a business manufacturers water pumps from its factory in Nottingham.

It is potentially entitled to a listing in a UK level water pump manufacturers category (if such exists) and it is also entitled to a locality listing in Nottingham.

If that same company had 2 factories - one in Nottingham and one in Leicester.. Its locality listing would cover 2 localities - so it can be bumped up a level and listed at the East Midlands regional level - which covers both Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. However it would no longer be entitled to the Nottingham listing. A site is only allowed one 'locality' listing.

To qualify for listing at the England level, a business would have to operate from multiple locations in England - that were not in the same region. e.g. If the water pump business had factories in Nottingham, Leicester and Newcastle - it would potentially qualify for an England level listing.

So to summarise a UK business can have a maximum of two potential listings in the UK part of dmoz.org:

1) Locality listing (which could be in a village, a city, a region or in an England cat) Must have 'local scope' - e.g. Online only businesses generally not allowed - as they don't really have any local relevance. But an online business which also had a proper physical shop would be ok. And it will always be listed at the lowest level possible.

2) A UK topical listing. (Only for businesses that have a national scope -.. So local window cleaners or flower shops that don't deliver nationally would not be allowed a UK level listing. NB: If flower shops deliver nationally they must offer more than just Interflora to justify a listing at UK level.)

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In your case. You should be okay for a locality listing as Hutcheson says.

The UK listing is probably not appropriate unless you offer non-Interflora product nationwide. If you do offer this - its not apparent from your website - and that's the only thing we review

Please see the for the UK flowers category charter for more info.


I hope this helps

.... of course Andy didn't mean to use the word entitled as no site is entitled. I think he intended to write 'eligible for consideration'

I have taken the liberty of saving you the job of resubmitting by adding it into the pile at http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Kent/Tunbridge_Wells/Business_and_Economy for a fresh review.

update on http://www.darlingandwild.co.uk

Resubmitted to

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Kent/Tunbridge_Wells/Business_and_Economy

following editorial advice on 22/10/04

Thanks

[r]received[/r]

This request did indeed slip through the net due to the amount of requests. For future reference we prefer to keep post relating to a particular URL in the same thread.

Hope this helps.

prefer = insist upon

Thanks

For the future,is there any way of ensuring that a future request on this thread does not slip through the net again? (Is there a preferred title or something to ensure moderators/editors realise it's updated?)