  <h1 align="center">Ten Commandments for New Editors</h1>
  <p align="center"> <b>Disclaimer</b>: The following are <i>not</i> rules; they 
    are simply helpful tips. </p>
  <p align="left">1. If you have no unreviewed sites to edit, search for them 
    yourself and then add them directly to your category.<br>
    2. Use your bookmarks to practice with the editing interface and features 
    available to you.<br>
  3. Read, and if possible participate in, the <a href="http://dmoz.org/forum/">editor 
  discussion fora</a>.<br>
  4. If you have a question that needs answering, first browse DDP, and then the 
  <a href="http://dmoz.org/forum/">Editor Fora</a> (via <a href="http://dirt01.netscape.com/cgi-bin/forum_search">Forum 
  Search</a>) before you start a thread<br>
    5. Read the <a href="http://dmoz.org/guidelines/">Guidelines</a> at least 
    once, especially the section on describing sites.<br>
    6. Never cool, or otherwise unfairly promote, any site with which you are 
    affiliated -- even if the affiliation is indirect. Ignoring this rule is likely 
    to result in your editing permissions being revoked.<br>
    7. After you feel that your category is guideline compliant, it is suggested 
    that you request a critique of your editing. You can do this either by contacting 
    an editor privately, or posting in the current incarnation of the Come Here 
    to Get Your Cat Checked thread, in the <a href="http://dmoz.org/forum/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&amp;forum=New+Editors&amp;number=31">New 
    Editors forum</a>.<br>
    8. Don't apply for a new category until you have at least ten edits. Without 
    these the meta/catmod reviewing your request will not have a good idea of 
    your abilities, and subsequently will probably deny the request. <br>
    9. Please be polite and courteous in all of your communications. <br>
    10. Ask if you have any questions, either by starting a thread in the <a href="http://dmoz.org/forum/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&amp;forum=New+Editors&amp;number=31">New 
    Editors forum</a>, contacting a fellow editor via feedback, or asking somebody 
    listed in the appropriate <a href="http://dmoz.org/Test/Editors/Areas_of_Activity/">Test/Editors/Areas_of_Activity</a> 
    category </p>