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Site duplicate

 

http://dmoz.org/World/Fran%c3%a7ais/R%c3%a9gional/Asie/Vi%c3%aat_Nam/Voyages_et_tourisme/

 

Third from bottom

# Voyage Indochine - Propose des circuits à moto ou en jeep 4x4 au Vietnam, au Laos et au Cambodge, des treckings et du kayaking. Programmes détaillés, photos descriptions des itinéraires et tours proposés.

 

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# Voyage Vietnam - Propose des circuits à moto ou en jeep 4x4, des treckings et du kayaking Programmes détaillés, photos descriptions des itinéraires et tours proposés. Egalement pour le Cambodge, le Laos et la Chine.

 

The second from bottom redirects to the third from bottom? Is that duplicate listings? I personally don't think it's fair to have site like this listed.

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Item 3079 done. The site was a redirect as you noticed, it may not have been so when originally listed. Redirects is against our Guidelines.
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Hi!

 

In searching:

 

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Illustration/Historic_Illustrators/

 

 

35th Entry from top:

 

I encountered the following hijacked/redirected link: The new website appears to be a Greek directory.

 

David Copperfield: The European Prospect - Images, illustrations, photos and exerpts from David Copperfield. Includes student resources.

 

69th entry from top:

 

Title and description do not match site. The website of this Sarasota, Florida Arts college is listed in 3 different categories

 

- Biographical information on Joseph A. Maturo, artist and illustrator of magazine stories and 20th Century Fox movie posters.

 

Already listed in the following categories:

 

 

 

Regards,

NCMan

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Hi!

 

In searching category:

 

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Illustration/Historic_Illustrators/

 

I discovered gross duplication of site pages within same category: Of 99 entries in this category, I counted 79 as being pages from one of 4 URL’s!!!! I had to split this post into three posts to keep it under the DMOZ limit:

 

(2 entries in this category from this site)

 

I also found a hijacked link within this category. What is the editor of this category doing?

 

1st Entry From Top

 

 

) - An illustrated biography.

abbey.htm

 

This entry is duplicated in another category:

 

 

- Contains a biography with sample illustrations for the American artist.

abbey.htm

 

5th Entry from top

 

 

Anderson, Harry (1906-1996) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/anderson.htm

 

This entry is duplicated in another category:

 

 

- Contains a biography with sample illustrations for the artist born 1906 in Chicago.

illustrat/anderson.htm

 

 

 

7th Entry from top:

 

 

Artzybasheff, Boris (1899-1965) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/artzybas.htm

 

This entry is duplicated in the following category:

 

 

- Contains a biography with sample illustrations for the born in Russia born artist.

artzybas.htm

 

 

 

12th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

illustrat/bauer.htm

 

 

This Entry is duplicated in category:[/B]

 

 

- Discusses the life and work of this influential fantasy artist born in Jonkoping, Sweden. Includes many of his illustrations.

illustrat/bauer.htm

 

 

17th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

booth.htm

 

18th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated essay.

illustrat/brangwyn.htm

 

21st Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography

illustrat/burian.htm

 

28th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

clark.htm

 

 

29th Entry from top

 

 

Clarke, Harry (1889-1931) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/clark.htm

 

30th Entry from top

 

 

Coll, Joseph Clement (1881-1921) - An illustrated biography of Joseph Clement Coll - a master of pen & ink.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/coll.htm

 

32 Entry from top:

 

 

- Born 1892. An illustrated essay.

cornwell.htm

 

 

33rd Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography of Frank Craig, British artist of the early twentieth century who painted images for Kipling, Robert W. Chambers and others.

illustrat/craig.htm

 

38th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

illustrat/dunn.htm

 

42nd from top:

 

 

Finlay, Virgil (1914-1971) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/finlay.htm

 

43rd from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

flint.htm

 

46th from top

 

 

Goble, Warwick (1862-1943) - An illustrated essay.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/goble.htm

 

 

 

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port Hijacks, Dead Links, Inappropriate ODP Content, and other issues here ONLY

 

Post 2 of 3 by NCMan

 

47th from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

49th from top

 

 

Gross, Milt (1895-1953) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/gross.htm

 

52nd Entry from top

 

 

Held Jr., John (1889-1958) - An illustrated biography of John Held Jr., the delineator of flappers and sheiks and the Roaring Twenties.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/johnheld.html

 

53rd Entry from top

 

 

Hogarth, Burne (1911-1996) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/hogarth.htm

 

54th Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

58th Entry from top:

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

60th Entry from top:

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

61st Entry from top

 

 

- Born 1919. An illustrated biography.

 

65th entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

66th Entry from top

 

 

Loomis, Andrew (1892 - 1959) - An illustrated biography of Andrew Loomis, known for his art instruction books.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/loomis.htm

 

67th Entry from top

 

 

Lowell, Orson (1871-1956) - An illustrated biography.

http://www.bpib.com/lowell.htm

 

71st Entry from top

 

 

- Brief illustrated biography with online references and links.

 

77th Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography, including a 1910 newspaper article.

 

79th entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography of VIP, the darkly humorous creator of Big George and other cartoons for True, Colliers, Look, and for his own original compilations.

 

81st Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography, and book sales.

 

 

82nd Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

83rd Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography of the creator of the Phillips' girls, and of the fadeaway technique.

 

84th Entry From Top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

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86th Entry From Top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

96th Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography. Provides an explanation of the changes from wood engraving to photo engraving in illustration and the main influence of Vierge in this development.

 

 

2nd Entry From Top:

 

- Biography.

 

9th Entry From Top

 

 

- Biography. One magazine cover.

 

13th [B]entry from top[/b]

 

 

- Biography. One illustration.

 

 

26th Entry From Top

 

 

- Biography. One story illustration.

 

 

27th Entry From Top

 

 

Chambers, Charles Edward (1883-1941) - Biography.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/chambers_bio.html

 

 

37th Entry From Top

 

 

Dohanos, Stevan (1907-1994) - Biography.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/dohanos_bio.html

 

 

 

39th Entry From Top

 

 

Eggenhofer, Nick (1897-1985) - Biography.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/eggenhofer_bio.html

 

41st Entry From Top

 

 

Fawcett, Robert (1903-1967) - Biography. One story illustration.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/fawcett_bio.html

 

75th Entry from top

 

 

Outcault, Richard Felton (1863-1928) - Biography.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/outcault_bio.html

 

78th Entry From Top

 

 

Parker, Al (1906-1985) - Biography.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/parker_bio.html

 

85th Entry From Top

 

 

Sambrook, Russell - Biography. One illustration.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/sambrook_bio.html

 

97th Entry From Top

 

 

- Biography.

 

 

4th Entry From Top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

8th Entry From Top

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

10th Entry From Top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

11th Entry from top

 

 

- Frank Lloyd Wright's sister. Illustrated biography.

 

 

14th Entry from top

 

 

- Active: 1877-1897. Biographical note, and two illustrations

 

 

15th Entry From Top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

 

19th Entry From Top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

20th Entry From Top

 

 

- Active: 1900-1930s. Illustrated biography.

 

22nd Entry From top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

31St Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography

 

44Th Entry from top

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

48th Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

51St Entry from top

 

- Active 1903-1936. Biographical note, and several illustrations.

 

57th Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

59th Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

62nd entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

64th Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

68th Entry from top

 

 

- Old Mother Hubbard illustrator.

 

74th Entry from top

 

 

O'Neill, Rose (1874-1944) - Illustrated biography.

http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/Oneill.html

 

Oops!! This is continuing to a 4th Post

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Post 4 of 4 by NC Man

 

76th Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

80th Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biographical notes.

 

87th Entry from top

 

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

 

89Th entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

90Th entry from top

 

 

- Active 1909-1914. Biographical note, and several illustrations.

 

92nd Entry from top

 

 

- Illustrated biography.

 

 

93rd Entry from top

 

- An illustrated biography.

 

98th Entry from top

 

 

- Women illustrators from the Victorian period up to World War II, a project by Denise Ortakales.

 

 

 

 

95th Entry from top

 

 

- 19th century illustration by Millais, Leighton, William Morris and an extensive list of other British artists.

 

 

 

16th Entry from top

 

- Notes on the life of the man who founded the British School of wood engraving.

 

95th Entry from top

 

- 19th century illustration by Millais, Leighton, William Morris and an extensive list of other British artists.

 

35th Entry from top:

 

I encountered the following hijacked/redirected link:

 

- Images, illustrations, photos and exerpts from David Copperfield. Includes student resources.

 

Regards,

NCMan

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NCMan

 

Re: posts 3084-87:

 

I discovered gross duplication of site pages within same category: Of 99 entries in this category, I counted 79 as being pages from one of 4 URL’s!!!! I had to split this post into three posts to keep it under the DMOZ limit:

 

These listings are referred to as deeplinks. Although we ask that these types of links not be suggested from the outside it is acceptable for editors building categories to seek out and use these deeplinks in certain circumstances, and within our stated guidelines

 

In the case of specific Illustrators (as you noted) and also for smaller categories that are specific to well know people (artists, actors, etc.) this is a fairly common practice. Again, please note it is only at editors’ discretion and we generally do not allow outside suggestions of multiple deeplinks.

 

Also, the Kids and Teens section of the directory is considered a separate entity and contains only kid safe sites. It is very possible and often encouraged to have sites appear in both the “Classic” directory and the Kids and Teens section when appropriate ased on the site content.

 

Item3083 is done.

 

Thanks :)

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Item#3050 is done.

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~louby/index.html - already corrected by another editor

 

http://www.stmartinsmodelcars.co.uk/ - I left this one. It seems that they do have a physical shop location, but it does not belong in a Shopping category. It seems that they offer (framed) links to other car model sites rather than selling directly from the site.

 

Thanks :)

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Item #3054 - Done (by another editor)

Item #3055 - Done (by another editor)

Item #3058 - Done - RamTelecom and VSAT Puerto Rico both work for me.

Item #3064 - Done (by another editor)

Item #3066 - Done (by another editor)

Item #3067 - Done

Item #3068 - Done

Item #3069 - Done

 

Thanks :)

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Item #3070 - Done

 

Item #3071 - Done

Re: "Atlantic Mortgage Corporation"

HTML page title is “Michigan Mortgage Rates”. My understanding of ODP site submission rules is that the HTML page title of the home page must be the company name. Therefore, this site never should have been added.
This is not correct. The "Meta" title is of no concern when determining the listing of a site. The "Title" is determined from what appears on the site as the company, organization or entity name.

 

Item #3072 - Mobile Burn - Although this is the exception and not the rule, it is possible to have a site double listed in Topical categories (at editor discretion only). I believe the "Non-profit" statement refers to the organization and not the actual website. However, as I did not find it stated on the web site I did remove it from the description.

 

Item #3073 - Done (by another editor)

 

Item #3074 - Done

 

Item #3075 - Done

 

Item #3076 - Reported internally

 

Thanks :)

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RE: Artisan

 

Hi!

 

Thanks for your reply regarding posts 3084-87, you mentioned:

 

 

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These listings are referred to as deeplinks. Although we ask that these types of links not be suggested from the outside it is acceptable for editors building categories to seek out and use these deeplinks in certain circumstances, and within our stated
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Thanks. I reviewed the guidelines and still fail to see how a couple of sites hawking magazine subscriptions and book sales can get so many directory linstings.

 

http://www.bpib.com/ Sells "Images" magazine from each ODP listed page

 

http://www.illustration-house.com/ Sells books and subscriptions from it's homepage

 

http://www.ortakales.com/gallery/ Licenses the site owners art designs and advertises her commercial art illustration services

 

These aren't large sites with thousands of diverse and eclectic pages. These are small focused commercial sites using their deeplinked pages to sell magazine subscriptions and books. Furthermore, they could easily provide single click access to each page from their homepage. They certainly did so for subscription links.

 

In marketing, what these sites have done is to provide "loss leader" pages. each individual page doesn't make a great contribution to the bottom line but in aggregate, the large number of directory listings dramatically boosts the sites overall web visibility thereby allowing the site owner a substantial advantage in marketing their personal and highly related goods and services from the same site

 

How is what they did any different than, the owner of a small hardware store posting a page about the history of a particlular screw or hammer where each page contains links to a shopping cart?

 

 

Regards,

NCMan

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Arts/Illustration/Historic Illustrators/ contains sites and page links that provide information on well known Illustrators. The editor(s) who work to build out this category are looking for unique information about the individuals.

 

They are not concerned with how a listing from a particular site is going to benefit the site owner in the search engines.

 

They are not concerned with advertising and other links on the site (unless these are so extensive that the page content cannot be easily found.

 

It is all about providing the web surfer with information specific to e.g. Edwin Austin Abbey as found on http://www.bpib.com/abbey.htm.

 

I am not saying that every link is valid as I have not reviewed each one. At some point an editor found the link – most likely through a search on the Illustrator’s name and determined that it provided information that could be of use to someone interested in that particular Illustrator.

 

How is what they did any different than, the owner of a small hardware store posting a page about the history of a particular screw or hammer where each page contains links to a shopping cart?

 

No different at all. And if an editor decided to build a category on the history of that screw or hammer – it might just get listed. :)

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Hi!

 

While searching:

 

http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Roleplaying/

 

5th Entry from top

 

Dead link

 

- Genre sorted list of games featuring links, character sheets and reference material.

 

6th entry from top

 

Site no longer operational. Read message on homepage. It says the site has been out of operation for 3 years

 

- The rec.games.frp.moderated information page. General and administrative FAQs for the moderated newsgroup for discussion of human-moderated "tabletop" or "pen and paper" role-playing games.

 

7th Entry from top

 

Link hijacked to some type of junkfood site.

 

- Features forums, online tools, downloadable fonts, and a user created world called Caeldera

 

 

30th Entry from top

 

Link redirected to parking page

 

- A constantly growing collection of articles and documents created by the staff of Tesarta as well as links to other parts of the Web and books at Amazon.com, all covering a wide range of topics of interest to roleplayers.

 

Regards,

NCMan

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Hi!

 

In searching:

 

http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Arts_and_Entertainment/DVD_Rental_Companies/

 

I encountered the following category quality issues:

 

2nd Entry from top

 

Dead link

 

- Compares Australia DVD-by-post rental companies with independent reviews, tables, and customer comments.

 

 

3rd Entry from Top:

 

Dead link

 

- Comparison and narrative reviews of Canadian online DVD movie rental services.

 

 

Regards,

NCMan

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Hi!

 

While searching:

 

http://www.dmoz.org/Sports/Golf/College_and_University/

 

I encountered the following category quality issues:

 

5th entry from top

 

Link takes you to some sort of parking page

 

- Australia's Premier Golf School offering short and long term courses for a career in the golf industry. Intensive programs for aspiring professional players, and high school/golf programs also offered

 

Regards,

NCMan

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