I’m glad to announce this first blog article written in english

Today, an article on a blog was written with an interview of a dmoz editor.
You can this article here.

Unfortunately, there are many incorrect things in this article. I want to explain one.

Question number four : What is the #1 reason for a site to be denied?
The editor says : “Trying to get listed in the wrong category”.

This is unfortunately (or fortunately, depending of the point of view) not true.
If a website is incorrectly submitted, we highly invite the editor not to delete it. There are several options we give to you if you’re an editor and you see a misplaced suggestion.

• Ask a fellow editor, through feedback.
• Ask all the others editors, through the editors forum.
• Move the website to a private category dedicated to that. Here it is.

But do not delete it. Many webmasters don’t even know that the category where the website they submitted isn’t appropriate.
So by deleting it, you’re not helping anyone.
Neither the directory’s users, who will miss a possibly interesting website because it’ll not get listed.
Neither the webmaster who will re suggest the website in your category.
Neither you who will have to theoretically delete the website in your category indefinitely.

So now, the real answer. What is the #1 reason for a site to be denied?
Well I guess you only have to read this page to get the answer of this question.

We do not list websites without interesting content. Any website that is clearly a MFA, constituted of affiliations or doesn’t have unique content will not get listed.

There isn’t any global deletion reason which is highly more used everywhere. It depends of the category.
In some categories, we’ll have a lot more of misplaced websites which the editor will have to move to their appropriate category.
In others, we’ll have much more MFAs or affiliations. But no global rules.