Getting category changed from regional to general

[Marcia]

There's a site that has a "local" listing with ODP. However it no longer has anything to do with the local area itself, but is now national in scope - in fact, international. Will it be possible to add a listing for the broad category? I'm thinking of just requesting a change from where it is to the currently correct category, since the local no longer has any relevance.

What is the best way to go about this, and will I be able to submit a new title and description based on what the site actually now represents?

[fathom]

I haven't had any problem placeing listing with OPD as in regional, country continent etc.

In addition, as long as there is specific distinct to the selected categories there shouldn't be any problem.

[Marcia]

Thinking in terms of the Directory itself, it's actually of no benefit in the local at all in terms of providing relevant listings, even though it had its roots there.

I'm wondering about procedure fathom, whether to submit to the new category and mention the old, or to contact the editor of the old and make a request.

[fathom]

Hopefully, the old category will have an editor (at the bottomof cat list) you can email them directly.

However, you may want to just update the listing.

I know of few companies that are international that don't consider themselves inside their parent community.

Regardless, the editor will most definitely appreciate the consideration.

Rod

[vmcknight]

Submit it to the new category, with a note explaining your reasoning. You don't want to ask the current category editor to move it, since it would likely go to unreviewed in the new category.

If you have a bricks-and-mortar presence in the local area, you are may be entitled to a listing both there and in the topical category.

[fathom]

Thanks vmcknight!

To rephrase ... DON't ask the cat editor to move your listing to a cat.

Or as vmcknight suggested it will likely go unreviewed.

[skibum]

Either way, my experience has been that it can take a really long time to bring about such a change.

[ettore]

If a site has been added in a locality category, sure a brick-and-mortar presence was detected when the editor reviewed it :)

Should this site became broader in scope, international that is, it may have earned a listing in a topical category. With a very few exceptions this doesn't mean the site *lost* its brick-and-mortar presence.

Since double-listing topical-regional is acceptable (encouraged) in several cases, you may want to submit your site to the proper topical cat with a note, thus applying for a *second* listing, not a move from the original cat to the new one.

Even in cases where a category change is in order, you will find easier to submit to the new cat with a note to the editor (and email the editor of the *new* cat):

method A) asking editor of cat X where the site is listed to move it to cat Y (assuming legitimate request). Results: when the editor gets to the request, the site is moved from cat X to cat Y, but since the editor in cat X may not have editing privs in cat Y, the site ends up in the unreviewed queue of cat Y until another editor reviews it (time for review may vary depending on the number of unrevs, editor activity, etc).

method B) submitting to cat Y a site currently listed in cat X, with a note (assuming legitimate request). Results: the site waits in the unreviewed queue in cat Y (but remains listed in cat X in the meanwhile) until an editor reviews the submission. If and when it is accepted, the site is added in cat Y, and the editor will activate internal procedures to have it removed from cat X if he has not editing privs in cat X. Odds are that the site is even considered eligible for a double listing, thus getting the second listing withour being removed from cat X.

Better using method B, uh ? ;)