Difference between revisions of "Guide to all websites"

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AboutUs.org is a guide to all websites

This means that in addition to all the great sites included here, not-so-great sites are also included and we are nearly as interested in providing info about those. We believe that it is much more useful to provide visitors with pertinent information about the domain name rather than deleting pages and providing no information.

• Parking Lots (Link Farms, Parked Domains) are websites with virtually no content besides advertising links. They are commonly newly registered domains that haven't been built yet, or pre-existing websites whose owner may have let accidentally expire.
  • Noting domain names/websites as parking lots is helpful to people that are trying to figure out what happened to an old site in particular. To note that a site is a parking lot change its top summary to say "is a [[parking lot]]" which will then link them to our page explaining what a parking lot is. It is good to also remove most of the content from the page and place {{ParkingLot}} in the wiki section of the page to help explain.

• No Website refers to a website that no longer exists at all, meaning that nothing resolves in the web browser.
  • Just like parking lots, noting a website as no longer existing is helpful to people that are trying to figure out what happened to an old site in particular. To mark a website as no longer existing change its top summary to something like "is no longer a working website." It is also good to remove most of the content from the page and place {{NoWebsite}} in the wiki section of the page to help explain.

• Adult Content is not something that we want people to use AboutUs to find.
  • To mark a page as adult click the flag near the top right of every page. This places it behind a warning splash page that only logged in people can get through, and in time it also removes it from our search. (We do not delete adult pages because we want it to be easy to un-flag a page accidentally marked as adult.)

• Spam, Fraud, Malware, etc. is something that we want to note visitors to that site's AboutUs page about, but only in a constructive way. You can add the corresponding template to the wiki section of the page if you like: {{PossibleSpamSite}}, {{PossibleFraudSite}} or {{PossibleMalwareSite}}. (Do not remove the other content of the page or change the page's top summary.) If you can write a short and constructive comment about the site you may place it in the "Additional Information" or "Wiki" section on the page, but note that un-constructive reviews will be removed.

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