flopsybunny:
We have toyed with the idea of developing some software which would allow authors to enter pertinent details at the time they submit, but such a project would be complicated and time consuming for Februs, and the submitted data would still require a lot of checking at this end.
Yes, you'd need a form of some kind where the author was able to just check off their best guesses, and it definitely wouldn't remove the necessity to validate.
Anyhow, I figured it was worth mentioning, and I figured you had probably already considered it and decided not to for perfectly good reasons.