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[Elper]

I've removed http://www.cadehost.com.br/ and http://www.substancia.com/ which don't need any knowledge of Portuguese to fix - another editor will take care of the others in due course.

 

 

I applied to be editor at "World: Português: Informática: Internet: Hospedagem de Páginas", but I did my application in portuguese because that's the language of the category, but now I have read that maybe this will delay the review because not many Metas know portuguese. I know can't apply twice, but is there anyway I can submit a new application in english? Maybe a meta can already reject my application and I submit a new one in english.

 

If you want to edit in a Portuguese category, the application has to be in Portuguese otherwise we would have no idea if your language skills are adequate

From what you've written here, you could edit in English categories as well - If you want to apply for an English category instead we can remove your existing application so you could re-apply. It probably won't alter the timescales for review though.

Imo better just chose the subject you'd like to edit and wait.

[bernardopc]

Thanks Elper! I guess I'll stick with the portuguese category, the english equivalent category seems to be well controlled.

[bernardopc]

I just became an editor and did the rest of the stuff I mentioned that I had permission to. I tried to login into the editor forums with my username and password but it did not work, any ideas? I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask.

 

Thanks!

[Elper]

I've reported the forum access problem to the people who can fix it - exact delay for a fix unknown at the moment...

Thank you for your patience.

[Elper]

Normally, it should work now - post there in New Editors to let us know (or here if it still doesn't work) Thanks

[karbz]

Is this a good place to report duplicates?

 

http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/ Computers: Programming: Languages: C: Libraries

http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7elourakis/levmar/ Computers: Programming: Languages: C++: Class Libraries: Numerics

 

http://www.aasdt.com/ Science: Math: Software: Companies

http://www.aasdt.com/ Computers: Artificial Intelligence: Neural Networks: Companies

(and 3 links to aasdt subpages)

 

http://www.nlreg.com/ Computers: Software: Shareware: Windows: Mathematics

http://www.nlreg.com/ Science: Math: Statistics: Software: Regression and Curve Fitting

 

(curvefitting.com and oakdaleengr.com is exactly the same site)

http://www.curvefitting.com/ Science: Math: Statistics: Software: Regression and Curve Fitting

http://www.oakdaleengr.com/ Science: Math: Software: Graphing

http://www.oakdaleengr.com/features.htm Science: Technology: Chemical Engineering: Software

 

http://www.spatial-statistics.com/ Science: Math: Software: MATLAB

http://www.spatial-statistics.com/ Science: Math: Statistics: Software: Regression and Curve Fitting

 

I've found these dups when looking for curve fitting software. I'm not an editor and I don't know what are you doing with dups, but a bot would be needed to eliminate all of them.

BTW the "Regression and Curve Fitting" cat seems to be neglected a bit. 4 years ago or so I requested a move of my site from another category to this one, and the site disappeared completely from DMOZ.

[MnWorks]

The site below redirects to a different site.

<url removed>

 

From what I have read this is not allowed.

 

It is also causing a problem listing active <url removed> sites.

 

Maybe an editor could update the <url removed> site to it's actual redirect location of <url removed>.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Search Query: http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=mnworks

Results:

Open Directory Sites (1-1 of 1)

Minnesota's Job Bank - Listing of job orders allowing search by keyword, occupational class, and location. Maintained by Minnesota Workforce Centers across the state.

-- <url removed> Regional: North America: United States: Minnesota: Business and Economy: Employment ()

[Elper]

@karbz - Thanks for pointing those out, but most appear to be legitimate multiple listings (assuming that the content on the URLs is still relevant to the categories they are listed in).

curvefitting & oakdaleengr being the same is an issue, now fixed.

 

@Mnworks - The redirect is corrected in the category (our and other search engines lag somewhat), thank you.

I'm not sure what you meant with "It is also causing a problem listing active sites." could you explain this in a bit more detail please?

[MnWorks]

Hi Elper,

@Mnworks - The redirect is corrected in the category (our and other search engines lag somewhat), thank you.

I'm not sure what you meant with "It is also causing a problem listing active <url removed> sites." could you explain this in a bit more detail please?

 

We as a group have been attempting to add <url removed> to the DMOZ.ORG index list but seem to be unsuccessful at doing so. We thought it was due to the MnWorks.Org site listing which was not an active domain but a redirected domain.

 

I'll browse over to the forum that covers listing your domain in the dmoz.org site.

If I told you one of our domains was registered in 1997 and submitted about once each year and never made the listings. I would bet we have been submitting the site wrong all this time.

 

Thanks for your help.

[motsa]

I've removed your site's URL from your posts -- we don't discuss specific sites here except in the sense of dealing with QA issues.

[jonnyy]

Fiesta Weekends - http://www.fiestaweekends.com

in http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Slovakia/Localities/Bratislava/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Services/

Looks like a hijack that redirects to a virus.

[Elper]

Fiesta Weekends - I failed to get redirected anywhere else in either Firefox or IE, no virus - Also I don't see an obvious hijack...

Is it still doing it for you and can you add some more details please?

[jonnyy]

Hi.

When I try the the link in Explorer 9 the page keeps trying to load then redirect to a page that will not load. I then get a message pop up from my Norton Antivirus: 'Norton blocked an attack by: Web Attack: Blackhole Toolkit Website 7 from http://www.fiestaweekends.com.

 

In firefox the page loads and I get the same warning come up from Norton but I also get a Firefox Alert box stating 'URL is not valid and cannot be loaded'.

 

This happens everytime I try.

 

Maybe it is an error with Norton but it hasn't happened on any other sites.

 

Hope this helps????

[motsa]

I'm getting a similar warning from AVG, though the page still loads. It seems to be alienego.com/adv/ego/fmcuewen9.php that is triggering the warning. It may be related to the news Flash module at the top of the page since that no longer loads properly.

[jonnyy]

Thinking about it. It's probably not loading because Norton is stopping it from loading as soon as it detects a problem.

[MnWorks]

I've removed your site's URL from your posts -- we don't discuss specific sites here except in the sense of dealing with QA issues.

Then I would suggest you remove the <url removed> link which is still in place.

Your own QA section states that domain name redirects will be removed.

Your moderator stated they were going to update the link to refect the correct name of the site and the correct URL.

 

If you allow redirects from TLDs then you are saying those that have TLDs without redirects can not be entered into the DMOZ.ORG listings.

 

XYZ.Org redirects to 123.Net which then makes it impossible for XYZ.COM to be listed because you have an XYZ.ORG .

 

Or do your QA policies apply to only those you feel rank higher?

 

Interesting to read you edited out the active TLD and what remains is a redirected link in your index.

The Quality of your DMOZ.ORG index has lost so many points over the years.

 

Good luck to you all. Now that this post is indexed in Google I'll repost the unedited version in another very popular forum.

Editing to make things look favorable to you and your group is also against your own QA.

Remember, this post was about a Redirect in your Index.

[jimnoble]

We don't list the doorway, we list the target and that correction was made in your case - as elper reported here back in May. I can't imagine why you didn't simply use the update URL link at the top of the page.

 

Our search is out of date and doesn't reflect the status of the actual directory. We editors have no clue when AOL will fix that and no means of forcing them to do so. Search is primarily intended to find an appropriate category and, in that regard, it's fine.

 

It's interesting that you're so aggrieved that you're going to broadcast your posts elsewhere but I can't actually work out what you're currently complaining about. What you wanted done was done - and pretty quickly at that despite your unorthodox and currently aggressive approach.

[motsa]

XYZ.Org redirects to 123.Net which then makes it impossible for XYZ.COM to be listed because you have an XYZ.ORG .

 

Or do your QA policies apply to only those you feel rank higher?

XYZ.org being listed -- whether it redirected somewhere else or not -- would have zero effect on whether or not XYZ.com could be listed unless they were just different URLs for the same site. (Then we'd only list one.) Editors actually look at sites to see whether or not they are related, they don't just look at the domain names and make assumptions based on that.

 

You seem to be upset over a misconception that you have about why your own site isn't listed yet. Your site isn't listed yet because either (a) no one has gotten around to reviewing it yet or (b) it isn't listable. Either way, it has nothing at all to do with whether or not another similar URL was listed. (And as jimnoble points out, that redirect was corrected months ago. Go look in the actual category and you'll see that. We editors have no control over the search results.)

[jons979]

My old website which is no longer online is listed in the directory and is therefore a dead link. Is there a way of reporting this without the url being displayed in this forum?

[jimnoble]

Since one of this threads purposes is to report dead links, by all means do so .

[jons979]

Since one of this threads purposes is to report dead links, by all means do so .

 

Jim, because the URL relates to my old business website, I personally don't want it displayed on here in case search engines find it, etc. With the site redundant I am trying to remove the URLs presence from the web. Can it be sent to you by PM instead?

[jimnoble]

With the site redundant I am trying to remove the URLs presence from the web.

Fat chance . The internet is remarkably persistent and resilient .

 

Can it be sent to you by PM instead?

Yes

[jons979]

Fat chance . The internet is remarkably persistent and resilient .

 

 

Yes

 

Thanks, message on it's way. As for the Internet's persistence, we can only do our best!

[jimnoble]

@jons979: Thanks for the (invited) PM. URL delisted from the category - though it'll probably persist in our search results for a while.

[jons979]

@jons979: Thanks for the (invited) PM. URL delisted from the category - though it'll probably persist in our search results for a while.

 

Thanks for doing that. Unfortunately search engines are out of our control but hopefully they'll catch up in due course.