This category should only contain sites that have some details as to "what you can do" politically, action that people can take, or have taken. A site offering primarily general information or education on a subject should be submitted to Society/Issues. A site about a particular political grouping or ideology or which emphasizes electoral and governmental actions should be submitted via Society/Politics.

Sites that respond to readers' requests for advice, whatever the topic - unless a 'specialist sub-category' exists.

Please read the category description and look at the sites already listed. Also, you might like to browse the 'sub-categories' - one of them might be more appropriate.

Self help and support sites do not belong here - Try: Self Help or Support Groups )

If you are not sure, submit in the category you feel is closest. Editors are happy to help someone who meets us half way!

When submitting a site, please indicate if registration or payment is required from your visitors.

Reviewing submitted sites is taken very seriously at the Open Directory; a site in the wrong category, or an inappropriate title or description gets us - and you - a bad reputation. So we reserve the right to delete inappropriate submissions.

Thanks for bringing your site to us.

Sites must contain unique content in order to be listed.

Sites dealing with controversies or issues surrounding crime, law enforcement, and related topics should be sent to Society/Issues/Crime_and_Justice

Private investigations belong in Business: Business Services: Fire and Security: Security: Investigation: Investigators

Sites submitted here must be in English. Non English sites should be submitted to a WORLD category.

Websites pertaining to death care should be very user friendly to the elderly, as they are the most likely to be using them. Things such as colors, text size, universally compatible to older browsers and computers, fast load time, etc. will be taken into strong consideration as factors regarding possible listings.

• Submit sites about support groups, agencies, or services for a particular city, state, or province to the appropriate Regional category
• Submit sites that sell adaptive equipment or assistive technology directly to consumers to Shopping: Health: Disabilities
• Submit commercial sites (manufacturers, distributors, etc.) selling disability-related products or services to the professional healthcare industry to Business: Healthcare: Products and Services: Disability
• Submit sites about controversies, issues, advocacy, discrimination, and abuse to Society: Issues: Disabilities
• Submit sites about specific disabilities to Health: Conditions and Diseases

Sites listed in Society/Ethnicity will focus on a particular Ethnic Group's culture (i.e. traditions, history, arts, religion and education).

• Business sites should be suggested to Business/Business_and_Society/Ethnicity.
• Shopping sites should be suggested to Shopping/Ethnic_and_Regional.
• Area Studies sites should be suggested to Science/Social_Sciences/Area_Studies. These sites tend to offer more quantitative data in areas such as history, politics, economics, demographics, and geography of a given country or region, rather than focusing on the social or institutional aspects of the group/area.
• Sites sites pertaining to the science of Ethnic Studies should be suggested to Science/Social_Sciences/Ethnic_Studies.
• Dating Services or Personal Ads belong in Society/Relationships.
• Political sites with a focus on Nationalism belong in Society/Politics/Nationalism.
• Expatriate sites are listed in Society/People/Expatriates.
  

Do not submit sites here in languages other than English or sites about countries or other regions which are served by a category of the Regional hierarchy.

more information (editors only)

If your site offers psychic services go to Society/Paranormal/Psychic and submit to the most appropriate subcategory there.

If your site is in a language other than English, start at World and submit to an appropriate category under the language of the site.

Sites with adult content which is not of an educational, informative, or artistic nature are not permitted, but should be sent to the Adult category.

Sites primarily offering online shopping should be sent to the Shopping category.

Sites with a narrow geographic focus are best placed in a Regional category.

Sites relating to transgenderism are located in the Society: Transgendered category.

Regional Genealogy sites should be submitted to their correct country and location.

Do not submit

• State/provincial or local/municipal government or legislative representative sites; these should be sent to the appropriate Regional category.
• Political campaigns, candidates, or organizations; these should be submitted in the appropriate subcategory of Regional, Society/Politics or one of their related categories.
• Sites in languages other than English; all such sites are placed in an appropriate category in the World/ hierarchy. A list of Government categories in other languages, is displayed in this category.

To find your city's Government category

1. Select your country in Regional/Countries, e.g. /Regional/North_America/United_States/.
2. Select your state, e.g. /Regional/North_America/United_States/California.
3. Within the Localities subcategory, select the city, e.g. Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/W/Walnut_Creek.

Do not submit sites about local (e.g. town, city, county) history unless pertinent to an event or place of national or international significance. For example, a site about the founding of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is Regional in interest, whereas a site about the course of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a turning point in the American Civil War, would be accepted into the Society/History category of the same.

Society/History is best suited to academic or scholarly sites devoted to history of civilizations, or of particular branches or philosophies of history.

ATTENTION: Please DO NOT submit sites on vacation spots in this category.

Few sites are appropriate for this category. Please review the subcategories carefully before making your submission.

Submit sites that have individual pages or sections for a number of holidays to the Holiday Pages subcategory.

Submit sites that list holidays or tell when the holidays observed by a certain people group to the Calendars and Lists subcategory.

Submit sites that focus on a single holiday to the corresponding sub-category.

Do NOT submit shopping sites. Sites that primarily market seasonal merchandise should be submitted to Shopping/Holidays. Shopping sites will not be listed in this category or its subcategories. If submitted, they are subject to deletion.

Sites which focus primarily on the religious aspects of holidays should be submitted to the appropriate religion's category, such as Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Judaism/Holidays_and_Observances or Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Calendar.

Online greeting sites should be submitted to Computers/Internet/E-mail/Electronic_Postcards/Occasions.

No site is guaranteed placement in the Open Directory. Any site still under construction, submitted to multiple inappropriate categories, using multiple URLs for multiple submissions, or consisting primarily of affiliate links to products will be deleted. Thank you for your cooperation.

Important Notes - Please Read:

Failure to submit to the proper category will entail significant delay in the review of your site.

Please do not submit your site here unless it is a very deep site with lots of content that covers virtually every major issue.

Please look through the subcategories to find the appropriate place for your site. Doing this will get your site reviewed much more quickly, saving several weeks or more in many cases.

Personal pages covering multiple social issues should be submitted to the Personal Multi-issues Pages subcategory.

Personal political homepages should be submitted to the Politics: Personal Pages subcategory.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sites for national, state, provincial, and other local courts should be submitted to the proper location within Regional.

Please submit your link to the most specific sub-category possible. Very rarely will a link be added at the Society/Military level. Failure to submit your link to the most specific sub-category possible will likely result in a delay of the site being listed.

If your site contains information specific to one country, please submit it to the Government/Military category of that country.

Sites must be in the English language.

Please send non-English sites to the World hierarchy.

The editors reserve the right to omit from the index sites which are submitted more than once to the same category, sites under construction, or sites which belong in other categories.

Please suggest only English language sites. If your site is in another language than English, please suggest it in World under the appropriate language.

Please Do NOT suggest your site more than once. This includes multiple pages from your site. Website suggestions should meet the guidelines of the category to which you are suggesting. Please take a moment and find the best subcategory.

If the site is under construction, please wait until the site is ready to view before suggesting it.

Please submit sites of individual philanthropic organizations in the correct subcategory, such as Society/Philanthropy/Organizations, Grant-Making_Foundations, or Youth/Organizations/Public_Service.

Please DO NOT submit sites under construction.

Popular metaphysics, as is usually dealt with in religiously-oriented sites, theology, and New Age philosophies are better suited for categories in Religion and Spirituality. This includes psychic readings, ancient Egyptian religion, crystals, UFOs, and alien abductions, the I Ching, etc.
IMPORTANT:

1. Please submit personal philosophy to Society: Philosophy: Personal Pages or Society: People: Personal Pages.
2. Only English-language sites are listed here; all others must be sent to the appropriate World/ category.

For organizational purposes, the Society/Politics branch is devoted to ideology and to the practice of politicking, i.e. electoral and legislative activities such as campaigning and lobbying.

Grassroots, protest, and "direct action" activities are placed under Society/Activism whereas education, information, and advocacy regarding specific issues are placed under Society/Issues.

Sites about specific candidates and campaigns are generally placed in the Regional/ branch, while sites suitable for scholarly use are placed in Science/Social_Sciences/Political_Science.

Please submit only English language sites into this branch.

NOTE: "Sites with adult sexuality content which is not of an artistic, educational, or informative nature are not permitted in Society."

Instead, that material should be placed in the Adult category. This includes "Adult Oriented Personals," "Adult Novelties," XXX, hardcore, porn, etc. If the site is meant to arouse, not only to inform, it belongs in Adult rather than Society/Sexuality.

Although there is no universal agreement as to what constitutes adult material, any notice on the site that the visitors to the site must be of any minimum age -- 18+, 21+, or not minors -- is a strong hint that this site needs to go to Adult. Other hints can include PICS labels over 1, explicit keywords, and "the company the site keeps," the sites that it links to, advertises, maintains reciprocal links to.

See the Adult category FAQ for more details.

Continual submissions of adult sites into Society/Sexuality/Society/Sexuality may result in said sites being banned completely from the directory.

Submit sites critical of the goals or methods of specific support groups or of support groups in general.

This category does not list sites for support groups. Websites that describe an alternative support group belong in the category for that group as found in Society/Support_Groups.

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If the site belongs in Support_Groups : Opposing_Views, see if there is an appropriate sub-category here.

Pornographic websites are not permitted in this category. Submit them to the most appropriate category in the Adult directory.

Explanations of common terms used in transgender issues are available in the FAQ.