status of www.alfanethotels.com

[tori]

Please let me know the status of

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/czech/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Czech_Republic/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/slovakia/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Slovakia/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/germany/ (submitted on 2005-02-11)

to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/bayern/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Bavaria/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/baden/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Baden-W%c3%bcrttemberg/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/hessen/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Hesse/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/saarland/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Saarland/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/saxony/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Saxony/Travel_and_Tourism/

 

http://www.alfanethotels.com/westphalia/ (submitted on 2005-02-02)

to http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/States/North_Rhine-Westphalia/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

 

Thank You!

 

Gabor Torok

[hutcheson]

Those all have been or will be rejected. Did you submit the main site anywhere? That's the only URL you possibly could have submitted under the submittal policies.

[tori]

In my reading of the submittal policies i thought it will be accepted because they are different regions, they contain different information and they fit more into the given categories instead of one more global category. That is why we did not submit the main site. The hungarian region's url is already in the directory, it has been submitted earlier. So what would You suggest? Should we submit the main site and the hungarian link will be deleted, or leave only the hungarian link in the directory?

 

Thank You!

 

Gabor Torok

[hutcheson]

Submit the main site.

[tori]

Ok, i will submit the main site.

 

But i have found some similar cases:

If you search for the word "accor"

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=accor

In the 7. and 8. positions are

http://www.accorhotels.com/

http://www.accorhotels.com/nl/

 

Or in the 16. and 13. positions are

http://www.accorhotels-asia.com/

http://www.accorhotels-asia.com/country/where.asp?ctry=VN

 

I think these are similar cases. Please tell me why were these accepted.

[arubin]

Official sites of individual hotels are accepted, even if the chain has an overall listing. I have rejected a country-wide subdirectory of a chain, but I could have been mistaken under our guidelines.

 

Regardless -- you should not submit such pages. We'll take care of it if we think it appropriate.

[hutcheson]

It doesn't matter why those were accepted (it could have been a mistake, or an editorial addition -- neither of which would affect your case.) You are still bound by the submittal policy.

 

But I think the explanation given is correct. The site given is (or was at the time), so far as the editor could find, the main site for that hotel. If since then the hotel has created its own site, we typically would want to switch over to it.

[tori]

Ok, thank You! I will submit only the main site!

[tori]

One more question:

 

Would it be the solution to register completly new domains for the different regions? In this case could we submit all regions to dmoz.org? Because they have so different content that they should be handled different. They are not simply sub-pages of the domain, they are different pages. I cannot find any phrase in the submission rules that we conflict with.

 

For example see "nethotels":

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=nethotels

This is absolutly the same case!!! We have also different regions as "nethotels". I think it is logical to put the different regions into different categories.

[hutcheson]

Don't do that. It wouldn't look like spam. It would look like DECEPTIVE spam instead.