Er, okay... So who's lazy? The person who didn't see your profile coming a few days in advance? 

I have to agree with Patsa here - you're fussing about people who don't look before they contribute but in the same breath you fuss that someone contributed the same profile you contributed but days before you did.

So, are you angry at yourself for being lazy?

Quoting northbloke:

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I'm not sure, but I think in his example eagle61397 is "ABC123" and "you" is one of the lazy people.

I'm not talking about any particular user, I was just talking in general terms. Almost everyweek I see multiple overlapping contributions for the same profile and some of them undo the work of the previous contributor, which defeats the purpose. I can understand that if something is incorrect and the person wants to fix it, that's fine, but IMO I think people should just look online first and then go from there.

The only way to tell if someone else has contributed a new profile is to try and contribute something yourself. This has happened to me a few times with exclusives like 300 from Best Buy. I spent almost an hour building a perfect profile, only to submit and see everything already submitted.
Unfortunatly you can't see the new ones before they are released so I couldn't compare and contrast. In that case I went ahead with my submission just in case I had something that was missed by those who beat me to it (beat me to it sounds wrong, it's not a competition. Change it to "those who's subs went in before mine" ). Recently I've just submitted something minor to see if someone else already has done a full profile. If they have, I hit cancel and wait to see the profile and if it needs tweaking. If not, hit cancel and do the profile. It's the only way I can see to do it with new releases that don't have pre-approved partial profiles.

Quoting skipnet50:

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You have twoi ways too deal with this, check the titles for voting and see IF there i anything up there. The other way and the way I do it, is a quick review of the notes that have been left (this should ALWAYS be done) at the time you Contribute and see what is going on.
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This is what I do and then I submit my changes/additions. I also try to mention the other contributor's name, by saying something along the line, this contribution is an addition to the one in progress.