status of http://www.search-ireland.net

Could you please let me know the status of http://www.search-ireland.net, submitted Jan. 23, 2005, to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Ireland/Guides_and_Directories/

I'm sorry, your suggestion has been declined.

I was wondering how do you contact the editor of a category like http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Ireland/Guides_and_Directories/ to ask why my website has been rejected and so I can make improvements to my website.

Editors are not enouraged to get into discussions about why sites are rejected - and are advised to ignore any such requests. You should also avoid using the editor names at the bottom of categories to try and figure out who rejected your site, since it might well have been an unnamed editall [senior editor]

The answer to all rejections ultimately boils down to lack of sufficient original high quality content. Sufficient meaning enough quantity, original meaning not found elsewhere on the Internet, high quality meaning valuable to our users, content meaning information. Sites that fail on one or more of those factors don't make it in. Some sites, by their nature, are designed to fail on one or more, others are capable of remedial work to bring them up to standard. But no-one should change their webmaster strategies to get a DMOZ listing, assuming their site is successful already. However, we would like to think that sites that do meet our criteria are the best examples of their type available and should, all things being equal, be successful whether or not we list them. Critically examine all aspects of your site against the requirement for sufficient original high quality content. Where you think you could do better, do better. If you can't do better either the site falls into the category of sites whose design and purpose will always prohibit their listing, or you are not being critical enough.