What if you're correcting cast and crew spellings? What notes do you put in the cast/crew box?

The edit screen does not show the additional comments...

With this additional field in effect for some days, I've built up an opinion on it: It is somewhat in between useless and contra-productive.
• Contributors, who docuement seriously, don't need an extra field to put in the same data.
• Contributors, who are lazy documenters, won't write more comments with a second field.
For both of them the second field is a practice lesson in copy'n'paste.

What would be improvements:

a) Documentation for source UPC/Disk-ID
There should be a check box I have copied data from another profile, which opens up a form to fill in UPC/Disc-ID, Location (my imagination creates a search button here) and a textual field to comment on, which data was copied. This form could be processed to provide a link to the contribution history of the source profile to the voters and screeners. - This would be a great help.

b) Details for amendments - already read it elsewhere, but important enough to steal the idea:
It would be usefull to have notes on each and every change. Yes, if I write each, I mean each change and not only each field. There could be a small button beside each change to open up a commentary line. For some of the changes there could be even more logic in behind:
- Credited as entries could provide additional buttons to document the current numbers from the CLT (could be filled in automatically) or a link field to the common name thread. Documentary links to Twitter, Facebook or whatever could be added to show the uppercase/lowercase spelling of the names...
- BY years could get a link into the BY thread - maybe this should be mandatory...
- Uncredited cast members should be documented either with a link to a documenting web page, a runtime code where the character appears on screen or a hint, where in featurette he/she is mentioned - this should definitly be mandatory for each uncredited cast member!
- CoO could be underlaid with a link to the production company
- Original songs need links to prove their origin
- Deleted information should be documented and copied over to the contribution history, to avoid flipping data in and out...
The list could be continued nearly endlessly and new ideas will grow over the time to be included...
The possibilty to document in detail, for sure, would encourage to track the detailed amendments - the data not only the contribution notes - within the contribution history. This would be way more data to store and the preparation of all this data to be human readable would be another issue. But it would be worth it.

Maybe you can add a link to a thread/post in case of a single BY or common name.

For multiple birth years and/or common names the single line is not enough in my opinion and therefor I agree with the last posts.

Quoting Gamemaster:

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Maybe you can add a link to a thread/post in case of a single BY or common name.

For multiple birth years and/or common names the single line is not enough in my opinion and therefor I agree with the last posts.

In fact, you can add a very long line... But the suggestion of the small space for cast/crew vs. the large field for the remaining data does not reflect my understanding of the importance of the contribution notes nor it reflects my own contribution notes, where nearly 90% of the space is consumed with cast & crew documentation...

All I can say is that I find this new field highly annoying—but most of all very confusing. It feels like we're being trolled or not taken seriously.

There's absolutely no need for it. Because a contribution will still depend on the data submitted along with sufficient notes.
Might as well write all notes in the new field instead of the main field. *smh*

This extra field makes a contribution much more tedious and provides no extra "safety" against bad contributions.

One of the worst additions since I started using the software. Or perhaps, the only bad addition...
Please, Ken, remove it.