Catagory suggestion

[web-rover]

where can i make a catagory suggestion?

[motsa]

Editors will create categories as they are needed. If you know of sites that could be listed in a new subcategory, feel free to suggest them to the parent category and, if there are enough of them and the subcategory is warranted, someone will eventually create the subcategory.

[sebbass]

What happens if the parent category has no 'suggest' link?

For example, is needed a completely new subcategory inside health/alternative called 'Geochromotherapy', based on GEOMETRY patterns / archetypes (that's the new principle)...

Because is a new system (1994), very few sites talk about it yet (the main one and a few coming up), but already hundreds of therapists have learned this method worldwide (Spain, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, etc) and working with it.

Is there a minimum of sites required to create a new subcategory? are there exceptions?

Thanks a lot

[arubin]

Without reviewing the sites, it seems that Geochromotherapy might fit under http://dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Color_Therapies/ until enough sites are developed to support the new category.

[web-rover]

Editors will create categories as they are needed. If you know of sites that could be listed in a new subcategory, feel free to suggest them to the parent category and, if there are enough of them and the subcategory is warranted, someone will eventually create the subcategory.

 

where do i suggest. I don't see an option for this.

[pvgool]

where do i suggest. I don't see an option for this.

Go to the category

http://dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Color_Therapies/

and the top of the page you see a link "suggest URL"

[web-rover]

ummm, so i use the "site Submit" function to suggest a new catagory?

[lmocr]

No - you use the site submit function to suggest the site(s). If you suggest enough of the same subject sites that the editor feels they belong in a separate category - (s)he will create one.

[jdaw1]

Though, when suggesting a site, there's no harm in adding a square-bracketed request to the description along the lines of "[Please consider creating a new sub-category called Top-Level/Second-Level/.../Whatever/]".

[spectregunner]

However, if you choose to go that route, allow me to set an expectation or three.

 

Adding a subcategory is not always straightforward.

 

Under certain circumstances, an editor can add a subcategory based upon their own judgement, and upon the existance of a template that defines certain standard subcategories that can simply be added once there are enough sites to populate that category. For example, if I were to identify a handful of automobile dealers in anytown, USA, I could add the Automotive subcategory to the Business_and_Economy category within that locality because it is a standard category.

 

In some cases, editors are strongly discouragte from adding any subcategories, even if they seem straightforward. For example, if the major category is undergoing an approved reorganization (a process that can easily take a year), editors are discouraged from adding subcategories while the reorg is in process. Heck, in some cases, suggestions are even shut off in the affected categories.

 

Sometimes an editor will propose adding a given subcateory, based upon looking at topic area witha very narrow focus. That proposal may end up involving dozens of editors from multiple parts of the directory, all of whom wish to weigh in with the view from their respective positions.

 

So, why am I telling you this? Because I don't want you to come away with the idea that if you suggest a subcategory when making URL suggestion, that it is a done deal, and only needs an editor to simply create the subcat and shove your suggestion in there.

[jdaw1]

However, I suspect that -- iff the sites are good, truly appropriate, genuine, with unique content, aren't merely copies of each other, etc -- this is one of the simpler cases. (Though I am no longer an editor, so won't know of any reorganisations planned or underway.)