status of justskidding.ca inquiry

I submitted my website justskidding.ca on November 30, 2004, and I'm just checking on its actual status. The submission category was Regional/North America/Canada/Ontario/Metro Areas/Greater Toronto/Business and Economy. Since the submission I've changed my IP and my actual address is kazikdziak@pppoe.ca . Thank you for letting me know what's happening to my submission.

You need to provide a *clickable* link to the category you suggested your site to. Thanks.

It's listed in http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_Amer.../T/Toronto/Education/Specialized_Instruction/

But since your site has no location for your company

NEW SKID PAD
LOCATION IS
COMING SOON

I think it might be removed

oneeye said:

You need to provide a *clickable* link to the category you suggested your site to. Thanks.

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I think I know what you mean. The informational string I placed was not meant as a link. Typing a link, for the time being, is well beyond my expertise. Procuring my website (justskidding.ca) is the top achievement of my computer "wizardry". I am in cars and I remember times when there were no speed limits on the roads. But you are right. Having a link there would help.

To clarify - First, I'm not certain your company is actually located in TO [the mailing address does not really count], and second if you do not currently have a skid driving location, we may decide not to list the site until you do. If you find a new location, for example in Concord, then it would be better to list your site there.

Our discussion at this moment is purely academic, but services like my are unique. Only a few companies in Ontario provide skid control and skid recovery training. Confining my listing to a relatively small locality will undermine my reason for listing with your directory. Skid Control training is not like our friendly neighbourhood restaurant or coffee shop. People tend to drive a distance to reach it. I am having customers from outside of the Greater TO. If I had the skid pad location in East York (now part of MetroTO) very few people would know that it is actually close to TO Downtown. How would you advice me to categorise my submission for the future reference? Do you think Locality category will work in this case?

Listings in Regional are based upon where a business is physically located. It does not concern itself where a site's cusstomers come from, where the site markets or hope to market. Physical location counts, all else is for naught.

It's a rule that we list in Regional at the most specific location of the company and not where your target audience it. It's not a rule that is open to discussion.

If you do not have a location for the skid school 'track' right now, how can we leave your site listed? We can't really list your driveway as a skid track

Maybe I'm wrong and I'll drive over tomorrow and check it out - look for rubber streaks.

Our discussion at this moment is purely academic

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It's not since you are currently listed in Toronto - maybe you thought you were still waiting for review.

Look, it sounds like you are not from the TO area. There used to be several municipalities like Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, East York, Scarborough, etc. Then a few years ago they were amalgamated into one Metropolitan Toronto. In your directory locations are listed both ways, old and new. My real question was, why you try to use outdated locality names? Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, etc officialy do not exist anymore. It is Metro Toronto for several years.

Yes, I thought I was still waiting for review - to answer your last question. Your note about my driveway does not sound really funny to me. Thanx anyway.

You should read carefully before you post

It does not say Metro Toronto is says Ontario: Metro Areas: Greater Toronto

just like Ontario: Metro Areas: Kingston

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Metro_Areas/desc.html

Ontario has nine Metropolitan Areas (Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Ottawa-Gatineau, St. Catherines-Niagara, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Windsor) as defined by Statistics Canada description of Census Metropolitan Areas, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Ottawa-Gatineau, St. Catherines-Niagara, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Windsor at StatsCan Name Search , which provides useful statistical data and a zoomable map.


Greater Toronto is not Metro Toronto it's more like GTO

* Durham, Regional Municipality of@ (88)
* Halton, Regional Municipality of@ (29)
* Peel, Regional Municipality of@ (25)
* Toronto, City of@ (4,916)
* York, Regional Municipality of@ (79)


To get listed there you have to have multiple locations in two or more of those areas.


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We do not have a North York Category and haven't for as long as Mel has not been mayor of NY

Some descriptions may still have North York and North York General Hospital is still called that because they did not change the name. It takes a while fro things to change, just like Bell Canada phone lookup which requires you try both Toronto and North York when doing lookups.
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My comment about your driveway was not a threat it was a joke - but it's also a gentle hint that editors do have ways of checking if real locations exist.

Confining my listing to a relatively small locality will undermine my reason for listing with your directory

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Small but significant point. It sounds like you think we are a listing service. We aren't. This is a project to catalog websites with original high quality content. We invite members of the public to suggest sites for inclusion, suggestions we may accept or reject, that's as far as it goes. Webmasters and their reasons for anything they do are not a consideration, it is our users who are the only consideration.

Note#1 I understand now that I was listed in Toronto, City of@
Note#2 Mel is gone but you still list North York.
Note#3 Listing in Toronto, City of@ gets mi into Localities of Toronto, North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough (are they just aliases in your directory?)
Note#4 I never felt your comment was a threat. Rather a joke in not so good taste.
Note#5 And this "gentle hint" about ways of checking real life locations. I said red on white that right now we do not have skid pad location. Our answerning machine says the same thing. I am saying this straight forward and you don't have to be a Sherlock Holmes.
Note#6 Its late and I have to go to slip. It was a pleasure to talk to you. I will resubmit my website once the fight for the skid pad is over.

It was fun

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Localities/N/

# North York@

The @ sign after a category mean it's an alias - not a real category - we put those in to handle situations like this, for those who insist they still live in North York - when you click on it it actually goes to

Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Localities/T/Toronto/

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If you find your site has disappeared you know why; if that does happen, just resubmit the site when you have a new location spelled out on the site.

Perhabs I should not use the word "listing". As you probably realized by now, English is not my first language. Its not even the second. I understand that you are not a commercial enterprise. But when you think, that you have something important to say (my case), climbing onto higher spot will help you to spread the message wider.
Keep on doing the good work!

Honestly, I had no idea what the sign @ means. I'm not into computers. Always learning something. My website disappeared last night, as we spoke. Just in case, if you will be my editor in the near future. Please, keep the company's name together. It is "Justskidding". The spelling "Just Skidding", as it appeared briefly in your directory, is the name of a computer game. There are several websites devoted to that game. The game itself is a kind walk over slabs sliding from under your feet, and has nothing to do with driving a car. See you soon and keep doing a good job!

Just for the record: it's unlikely that a forum reader will be the site reviewer -- or that we'd remember a particular thread....