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If a user is following the Contribution Rules

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When you contribute a changed profile, you are required to include Contribution Notes. Use the space to enter full explanations for all changes and/or additions that you make. Make special reference to any changes where:

    * You have verified there is a discrepancy between the box and the actual content of the DVD - include your verification method.
    * You are making a subtle change that may be hard to spot - for example spelling correction to the overview.
    * You are removing incorrect information.

Contribution Notes provide an explanation of your changes to other DVD Profiler users and Invelos for voting and deciding whether to accept your contribution, so make your notes useful and descriptive.

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Midnit:

But without correct notes, 6 months from now what does Changed aspect ratio from 2.35 to 2.40 tell anyone....it tell them NOTHING, It only says that a change was made not the basis for the change. What is some new user to make of it, or those of us that because of our large collections, may not get around to a given update for some time. How hard is it to type two extra words...per Cover.<shrugs>

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Quoting mdnitoil:

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Okay, let me put this differently.  More often than not, my vote on a given profile actually has very little to do with what's in the notes.  I rarely ever read them.

I have voted "no" to any number of submissions that have incorrect data.  Camera operators as cinematographers immediately comes to mind.  These submissions all had notes, but I knew the data was wrong.  In many instances, the contents of the notes do nothing to clue me in to the fact that the data is wrong.  I just happen to be a movie freak and retain this useless trivia.

I am the complete opposite.  I read the notes first then, if the notes tell me what was done and includes sources, I look at the data.  If the notes do nothing but tell me what was done, I vote 'no' and move on to the next one.  So, for me, the scenario in the OP usually won't ever come up.

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This argument about  "6 months from now, we won't be able to tell why something was done" just doesn't hold water with me.  When I audit a profile, I never look at old contribution notes.  If I am going to change anything, I fully verify it myself.  I never rely on anyone else's word.

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You might not look at the Notes, Hal. But some of us myself included DO, they are crucial in my assessment of an update and deciding whether to accept said update or not

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I want correct, verified data, no ouija boards, dartboards, assumptions or guesses allowed.

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In short, you want a yes vote me, verify your data and tell me how you did it, don't make me guess and don't waste my time. The Rule spell it all out very clearly contrary to the way some read it, they very clearly demand verification plain and simple no ifs, no ands, no buts and they begin hammering that home from the very FIRST page, carried right on through the Comment on your Contribution Notes page.

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You might not look at the Notes, Hal. But some of us myself included DO, they are crucial in my assessment of an update and deciding whether to accept said update or not, insufficiennt verification simply wastes my time and dealing with a file totalling almost 7800 Profiles including wishlist, wasting my time is not something that I enjoy. You have very close to the same number I have, hal, except that you aren't sem-retired and your time I would think carries an even higher premium to you. I want correct, verified data, no ouija boards, dartboards, assumptions or guesses allowed.

In short, you want a yes vote me, verify your data and tell me how you did it, don't make me guess and don't waste my time. The Rule spell it all out very clearly contrary to the way some read it, they very clearly demand verification plain and simple no ifs, no ands, no buts and they begin hammering that home from the very FIRST page, carried right on through the Comment on your Contribution Notes page.

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