Report Hijacks, Dead Links, Inappropriate DMOZ Content, and other issues here ONLY

[Iczer]

Re: Hijacks & Other Content Changes - Report Here ONLY

 

In the catagory

 

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Design/Fashion/Modeling/Image_Galleries_and_Fan_Pages/Individual/M/Moss,_Kate/

 

The site

 

http://www.susannanordlund.com/aisf/fcoff//kate/index.html

 

is a dead domain.

 

Iczer

[reil0037]

In the category:

 

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Relationships/Weddings/Personal_Pages/

 

The site:

 

http://www.shariandken.org/

 

appears to be dead.

[brmehlman]

#446 mostly done, except where I've found the hidden "not always free" or where I've asked for a second opinion.

[dogbows]

In category:

http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Pets/Dogs/Directories/

 

The following listing is not a directory at all but a store selling dog products.

Sniffbutt.com

http://www.sniffbutt.com/

 

Also when you click on Enter the Store, the URL changes. Not sure if this is actually considered a re-direct or not.

[thehelper]

#454 handled - thanks.

[jeanmanco]

#451 dealt with thanks.

[jeanmanco]

#452 dealt with thanks.

[razsport]

Broken Links

 

I believe this is the correct place to post dead links.

 

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Basketball/Directories/Search_Engines/

 

1. Go2Net Sports Search Channel(page cannot be found).

 

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Golf/Directories/

 

1. Asia Golf and Directory(Account under suspension; no content).

 

2. Golf Gurus: The Ontario Golfing Community Online(page cannot be found)

 

3. USA Golfer(page changed; can't access content).

 

4. Rural Living Canada: Golfing (page cannot be found)

 

5. ParPlay.com (page cannot be found)

 

6. MyGolfSite (page cannot be found)

 

7. Links New England: Golf Resource Guide(page cannot be found)

 

 

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Wrestling/Professional/Directories/

 

1. WrestleDirectory.com (visit their website and you get all business links; nothing to do with wrestling.

 

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Tennis/Directories/

 

1. Tennisland (page cannot be found)

[jeanmanco]

#458 dealt with. Many thanks.

[Raymond]

http://www.gardenfitness.com

The site is listed in this category.

 

http://www.dmoz.com/Health/Fitness/Advice_and_Guides/

 

This site is about turning lawn care into fitness techniques but not exactly a a guide that gives much advice about fitness as a whole.

 

This site also contains gardening tips which is also not relevant to the category Advice_Guides category.

 

This site fails so be relevant to this category making it more lawn care relevant than fitness.

 

The category would be more relevant in this category.

http://www.dmoz.com/Home/Gardens/Specialized_Techniques/

[brmehlman]

Those aren't hijacks, dead links, or inappropriate content. Whether they belong in that category or not, I think I'll let others decide.

[TimS]

In Recreation/Outdoors/Fishing/Saltwater/

 

http://www.saltwaterfishinghomepage.com/

 

and

 

http://www.wmi.org/saltfish/index.html

 

Are mirror sites - the very first line in "submitting a site" on DMOZ states: "Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs."

 

Is that considered inappropriate content or would an abuse report be the proper tool?

 

Thanks.

[Alucard]

TimS - thank you very much - a good catch!

 

I have removed the listing for http://www.saltwaterfishinghomepage.com/ as it redirects to the other.

[TimS]

Here's another one

/Recreation/Outdoors/Fishing/Saltwater/

 

http://floridafishing.netfirms.com/ <--- redirects to a completely different website.

[Alucard]

TimS, thank you - once again, this has been fixed.

[glitterball]

dead link

 

http://www.bluedelfin.com/ listed in Top: Regional: Europe: Spain: Autonomous Communities: Canary Islands: Lanzarote: Recreation and Sports: Excursions apears to be dead.

[xixtas01]

http://productreviewsite.homestead.com/diets.html which is listed as "Diet Central" in http://dmoz.org/Health/Weight_Loss/ Should be rereviewed, it does not appear to contain sufficient unique content to be listable to me.

[shade_wo]

category messed up

 

I’ve submitted more than a month ago a site in category

http://dmoz.org/World/Rom%c3%a2n%c4%83/Afaceri/Energie_%c5%9fi_mediu/

This would mean Power and Environment. The category has only 9 entries; I checked them and found things I believe somebody should be aware of:

 

1. The entry http://www.athenerg.ro/ goes to a site with exactly 6 pages. Homepage says the site is under construction, which is very true, since out of the other 5 pages, only two have some content, amounting to exactly 220 words altogether.

 

2. The entry http://www.ccc.as.ro/ leads to an “under construction” page which after 30 seconds redirects the user to the (I believe free) domain provider as.ro.

 

The other sites in category that have content, show little or no match with category name:

 

3. The entry http://www.topcad.ro/ is the site of a company dealing with topography and land survey, that has nothing to do with either power or environment.

 

4. The entry http://www.smartconsulting98.ro/ is the site of a probably very large company since it offers furniture, kitchen and bathroom accessories, vacuum cleaners, dusters, irons, floor polishers, and some water treatment equipment (the only item of some relevance here).

 

Hope this help

[gryphon]

Dead Links in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

 

Found a couple dead links while going through http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

 

Grace's Pastry http://www.graces-pastries.com came up as 'invalid account'

 

Heidi's Chalet http://www.heidischalet.com 'page you are looking for is unavailable'

[gryphon]

Additional dead link in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

 

Found 1 more dead link in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Baked_Goods/

 

Mr. Henrys

http://www.mrhenrys.com

page cannot be found

[razsport]

Broken Links

 

Hi,

 

I've found three broken links at: http://dmoz.com/Sports/Baseball/Directories/

 

The three broken links at this category are as follow:

 

1. Baseball Directory by String Bikini.com (for a week now this site has appeared as page cannot be found).

 

2. LinkAthletics.com-Baseball(page cannot be found).

 

3. Top 50 Baseball Sites (for a weeK now I've seen this site appear as page CANNOT BE FOUND).

[razsport]

more bad content

 

I found some more bad content.

 

http://dmoz.com/Sports/Baseball/News_and_Media/

 

The following 3 sites seem to be the same:

 

Baseball Primer

Baseball Stuff

Jim Furtado's Baseball Newsstand

[donwiebe]

Items 471 through 474 taken care of.

[shade_wo]

Dead link: http://anco.hypermart.net/ in category

http://dmoz.org/World/Rom%c3%a2n%c4%83/Afaceri/Construc%c5%a3ii_%c5%9fi_%c3%aentre%c5%a3inere/

[shade_wo]

Dead entry http://www.safir.ro/ in category

http://dmoz.org/World/Rom%c3%a2n%c4%83/Afaceri/Construc%c5%a3ii_%c5%9fi_%c3%aentre%c5%a3inere/Materiale_%c5%9fi_echipamente/