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I have to say I totally agree with Skip on this. If you want to copy, fine, but don't do so without actually verifying it. It may be allowed, but it's simply bad form and bad practice to copy data over then not do any checking on it at all to make sure it is correct for the disc that is in front of you when you are editing the profile. Yes I do realize that it takes time. But that's what it takes to make a quality user created and maintained database.

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Quoting Kathy:

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The database is a mess. Over the past year or so I have averaged over an hour a day updating and (...) fixing tens of thousands of errors and omissions.

So do I. Infortunately, since some changes in May 2008, rules do not allow to fix all errors, and on the contrary, ask to add sometimes (in fact on quite every no english speaking movie) voluntary spelling mistakes (that are not on credits). Though before that change I have contributed most of my profiles, I can no more do that, since I do not want to give other users wrong data. I can understand that Ken prefers to see those wrong data in his online, but he has to find people who really wants to participate to this game. As they are, rules lead to :
1/ save local correct data
2/ introduce errors that Ken wishes for his online
3/ contribute
4/ restore correct data
This is generally too much work for me, and reduced my contributions in a very large scale.

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(...) The database is a mess. (...)

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I have to agree with Kathy on this. I don't want sound like a sour grape but it seems the people who most complain about contribution notes needing to be as complete as possible, are those that themselves don't contribute a lot (either because of lack of time or simply because they don't want to).

Any help is welcome: sometimes, that means correct data is submitted with only very brief notes. So be it, then. I'd rather have that than no contribution at all.

It is in that spirit also I believe that Invelos leaves some leniency in the rules regarding notes or even incomplete contributions or big contributions with a small error: you have to weigh the greater good: do you want to throw away contributions that are 99% complete with only 1% incomplete or incorrect, and risk losing that 99% correct data? Would you scare away over half of the contributors by forcing rules that are overly strict and demand notes that take triple the time it does now? I think that's the basic equilibrium that needs to be reached: sufficient good data without going into excesses.

With that in mind, I say bravo to the contributors that take the effort to include very detailed notes, but I also don't hold it against those that don't or don't have the time to do so, provided they submit according to the rules

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Should the Contributor who is just Copying and Pasteing the info from one profile to another also add in their notes about the BY's, Common names and Uncredited Cast info they are adding as well.

If they are copying the Data, why not copy the Notes over as well.
Not just put from this (xxxxxxxxxxxx) profile.

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You don't even want to know how many tens of thousands of hours I have spent working on this database for FREE in only the last 5 years

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If you copy the info from one profile to another, you should copy the notes as well. Older notes are not all available. So when we copy from: for Example a DVD to a Blu-ray. One should also transfer the notes, so we are able to keep the info together, not have to search back to another profile.