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

Hi

Please could you give me the status of http://www.newcastleairportfan.co.uk submitted to open directory in around September to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Transport/Aviation/Airports/Newcastle/

Listing declined.

Could you give me any indication as to why the listing was declined please?

I am afraid reasons for declining suggestions are not divulged. Sorry.

Look at it the other way 'round. Why would an editor have accepted it? (Hint, this is a really simple question, the answer is always "sufficient unique content: enough information that is not available anywhere else on the web.")

So you can look at your site like an editor would. Go in, look at the most prominently featured content, and ask "is it available elsewhere on the web?" If the answer is "yes," then check some other content, to see if we can find enough to make it worth listing, and to see how to describe the site.

If the answer is no, and other prominently featured content is "the kind of thing that is usually plagiarized", then the editor may stop here. Or we may spot-check another bit of information (checking for hints about what might be unique), and ask the same question. (If there are no hints, then we won't check very far before concluding that the whole site is plague or plagiary.)

Unique Information. It's not just a good reason. It's the only reason.

Thank you for your comments.

I would not say that the content on my site is not unique as I have spent a considerable amount researching and writing the information on there however, I can see that some of the content may be available in other formats on other websites.

I plan to add a lot more content over the coming weeks and months at which time I will re-submit for possible inclusion.

Thanks for your time

Bear in mind that if Suzie has a website for her Seashore seashell shop, regardless of how crude, ... and you come along, study her catalog carefully, handcrafting a new promotional website, no matter how elaborate -- Suzie's site is going to be listed, and yours isn't. Because Suzie speaks with a unique authority on what she sells, and where, and how: nobody else can match that. Anyone else can only have derivative information on the subject of her business.

What I would find useful in an unofficial guide would be unofficial information that the official guide would run a mile from publishing. Are the loos filthy and are there enough of them airside? Is the car park so expensive you need a mortgage but there is an alternative down the road behind the fishmongers and they will give you a lift in the delivery van if you don't mind the smell. Is the coffee drinkable, what essentials don't the shops sell, which airline has the grumpiest checkin people, why you should bring your own sandwiches if flying EasyJet but their coffee is very nice. Bearing in mind legalities and that it wouldn't guarantee a listing, it would be far more interesting and less like a plug for some affiliate links and the company line.

Thanks again for your feedback. The discussion forum on the site does provide me and site users the opportunity to make such observations.

I will look at including further content, as suggested by yourselves and re-submit.

Thanks for your help.