lauvergnat Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Hi, Can anyone tell me how the submission of this site is progressing? It was submitted early october (possibly as http://www.about-france.com - they both work). thanks for your help
senox Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Please provide a clickable link to the category where you submitted. Thanks.
lauvergnat Posted November 27, 2003 Author Posted November 27, 2003 I think it was to Top: Regional: Europe: France: Travel and Tourism: Travel Guides In fact I'm pretty sure about it.
brmehlman Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 Clickable link please. See the thread at the top of this forum, READ BEFORE POSTING, for details.
John_Caius Posted November 28, 2003 Posted November 28, 2003 Rejected for being too much under construction when you submitted it. If you have added more content to the various broken sections now then you may resubmit.
lauvergnat Posted November 29, 2003 Author Posted November 29, 2003 Hi, Yes, the site has more info and more pages, the bad links have been fixed ( they're due to a bug with Mozilla which insists on changing links when you save the page... any solutions to that?) and it's going to keep on growing. We just resubmitted it to Top: Regional: Europe: France: Guides and Directories which is probably more appropriate as it contains not just travel info, but info on wine, studying, French links, and we're working on plenty more.
lauvergnat Posted January 10, 2004 Author Posted January 10, 2004 As suggested by John Caius, I resubmitted this site on 19th November, now that it has more content (and a lot more than lots of the sites in DMOZ). Can anyone give me an update on its status....
lauvergnat Posted January 10, 2004 Author Posted January 10, 2004 Sorry, I thought you had that info, as I got replies earlier: but anyway here it is: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/France/Guides_and_Directories/ Thanks for the speedy reply
yapuka Posted January 10, 2004 Posted January 10, 2004 It got there and it's awaiting review in that category.
lauvergnat Posted January 16, 2004 Author Posted January 16, 2004 I wonder if it wouldn't be better in the following category: Top: Regional: Europe: France: Travel and Tourism: Travel Guides http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/France/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ I have found some similar sites like Toutes Directions are placed in this second category. How can I change my submission to a different category? Or can an editor do this? Thanks for any help
John_Caius Posted January 18, 2004 Posted January 18, 2004 I have moved your site to the unreviewed queue of the Travel Guides category as I agree that it's more appropriately placed there. Looking at your site, something that might cause an editor to query the source of your content is the fact that many of the 'Cliquez Ici' links on the site lead to content on different domains, whilst other 'Cliquez Ici' links lead to other pages on your domain. What is your relationship with those other sites you link to? There's not that much content that's actually held on your domain.
lauvergnat Posted January 19, 2004 Author Posted January 19, 2004 Thanks John But with regard to "many of the 'Cliquez Ici' links on the site lead to content on different domains".... this is true of millions of sites on the Internet, notably portals whose aim is to group together (very selectively) links to relevant websites (is that not what DMOZ does?). It is the careful selection of these links that is the value of such sites. As regards "original pages", there are several of these, and more are in the pipeline... even if one can question whether 'tis better to include a short "own page" on a subject, or to include a link to a longer, and often more authoritative page, on the same subject. I don't really think that we can do better, for instance, for maps of France than map companies can, hence the links from our site rather than an "own page"
Meta windharp Posted January 20, 2004 Meta Posted January 20, 2004 is that not what DMOZ does? Yes. And because of this fact, the benefit of listing such sites in thr ODP is very small. So we are quite restrictive regarding such sites. If we think they don't add valuable content, we dont list them. Our guidelines ask us to list sites that have their own, unique content. Curlie Meta/kMeta Editor windharp
lauvergnat Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 The site in question contains plenty of original content and corresponds in all respects to the guidelines: "In general, ODP editors should enter sites that represent the following: * Original, unique and valuable informational content that contributes something unique to the category's subject." It also fully complies with the 5 points then indicated in the guidelines under the heading : "Editors should consider the following for each site: " I can't see anywhere in the guidelines that a site that contains a mix of original content and links cannot be listed. Or do the words "such sites" in the preceeding post refer to directories like Dmoz, and not to the site I submitted?
Alucard Posted January 21, 2004 Posted January 21, 2004 As stated in the forum guidelines, we casn not enter into discussions or debates about the suitability of sites, nor exact reason why it was rejected. Sorry.
lauvergnat Posted January 21, 2004 Author Posted January 21, 2004 No one ever said that the site was rejected. It was moved to another category. I hope that it is still there waiting to be posted in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/France/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ Clarification on this point would be appreciated. thanks
Alucard Posted January 21, 2004 Posted January 21, 2004 No, you are correct, noone said it was rejected.
lauvergnat Posted January 21, 2004 Author Posted January 21, 2004 Thanks You had me worried for a moment
lauvergnat Posted January 21, 2004 Author Posted January 21, 2004 This thread currently shows up with the message "this thread has moved", with my member name against the thread. Please can someone explain a) What is the significance of this? b) Why does my name appear along side the message, since I did not move it? Puzzled!
bobrat Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 For example http://resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=54798&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1 - you posted a question about a specific site in the wrong forum [that one was was for general questions], so an administrator simply moved the thread to the correct forum [this one].
lauvergnat Posted March 3, 2004 Author Posted March 3, 2004 Hello It's three months now since I last enquired about this site originally submitted back in 2003. Is there any progress? And is the waiting list in which it is queued moving, or is it static? For information, my original submission was back in October 2003. http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/France/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ Thanks for any information.
lauvergnat Posted May 13, 2004 Author Posted May 13, 2004 Any progress? I first submitted this site last September or October http://about-france.com Late 2003 it was moved to the queue for http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Fra.../Travel_Guides/ Is there any movement in this category? And can anyone be kind enough to suggest when, one day, one month, one year, the site might actually get listed? Regards to all
Alucard Posted May 13, 2004 Posted May 13, 2004 The site still awaits editorial review in that category. And no, we are unable to give any information about when a particular site will be listed, as our Crystal Ball interface (Microsoft ActiveScry) has been affected by the Sasser worm and is currently informing us that Manchester United will win the next Superbowl. (For a more serious answer to that question, please see http://resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php?faq=odp#faq_how_long ) Merci
lauvergnat Posted November 11, 2004 Author Posted November 11, 2004 No updates for over a year and a half !! Seriously, editors! I just found this message added to the bottom of a major UK directory that uses results from DMOZ/ * ! To The Editors Of Regional/Europe And Its Subcategories - Please do not wait to long with reviewing suggested sites and keep the number of queued sites as low as possible. Category editors: indianpipe igor07 kevinb randyescalada Last Update: 24 Mar, 2003 18:04 This is at the bottom of: http://www.mirago.co.uk/scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Regional/Europe... Well, if no ODP editor has edited a vast regional category such as Regional/Europe for over a year and a half, is there really any point in submitting to Dmoz at all?? Let's be fair and honest, this does NOT suggest that "humans do it best"... It would seem that neither humans nor machines are doing it at all in this case. I see that the category to which I submitted my site still has no editor. I still remain in hope that one day, the site I submittted will get listed. Cheers, Lauvergnat
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