A new user has just contributed a US profile for The Devil Wears Prada with the following contribution note

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Added main cast from IMDb

That makes me wonder if the Contribution Rules are visible enough. Maybe an explicit link like this would help... I used Paint Shop Pro

I'd really like to say you're right, but the rules are available from program level too. If I was a newbie (and it's not that long ago that I was, for some I probably still am), I'd check there first.

So Thorsten is right.
What scares me more is that quite often contributions like the one mentionend above get som "Yes"-votes too.

Not sure how much it would help, but a more visible link to the rules sure wouldn't hurt any.

It is probably a do-able feature (and forgive me if it's been discusses before) but what if there were kind of "built-it" security features for people with few (insert random number here) contributions.

Check boxes like when you install software that will not let you get to the contribution page (or after will not let you submit) until you've checked all of the appropriate boxes. (these listed below are just examples)

1. Y  N  My cover scans have no watermarks on them and match the UPC and locality of my submission.
2. Y  N  I took my cast and crew information from the DVD credits and did NOT paste them from IMDb.
3. Y  N  I have fully documented my changes and given proper sources for said changes.
4. Y  N  <<Insert your own here>>

As memory serves, there used to me a similar type of feature back in the old Invocative days.  Whatever happened to it??

BTW, I totally agree with enrywiki that the contribution rules should have a permalink at the top of every page.

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Check boxes like when you install software that will not let you get to the contribution page (or after will not let you submit) until you've checked all of the appropriate boxes. (these listed below are just examples)

1. Y  N  My cover scans have no watermarks on them and match the UPC and locality of my submission.
2. Y  N  I took my cast and crew information from the DVD credits and did NOT paste them from IMDb.
3. Y  N  I have fully documented my changes and given proper sources for said changes.
4. Y  N  <<Insert your own here>>

Agree! Check boxes would help too,
But I would rephrase a little bit:
1. Y  N  I understand the source for Cast & Crew information I am going to submit is film credits from the DVD itself.
2. Y  N  I did not take Cast & Crew information from a third party database.
3. Y  N  I understand that IMDb is a third party database, not a DVD.
4. Y  N  I am not crossing fingers while I answer!
5. Y  N  I swear!
6  Y  N  Srsly! No kidding!

     

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7. Y N I am not a politician.

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We have problems accepting data contributions from politicians?

But we allow them to govern us?

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It's been a few years, but wasn't there  an ON line test for you to enroll in for the 'right' to be able to vote?  This 'test or quiz had a series of questions of do and dont's  .
If this New comer had just completed this test,, wouldn't he remember that we don't allow IMDB credit at all??     

8. I did not have sexual relations with that woman!