Trivia Item Submitted Twice - Rejected; Guidance Needed

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The submission - for "Blue Bloods (2010)" - contains this:

"The food on the table at family dinners is real, actual food catered from The BeeHive Oven Biscuit Cafe, located up the street from the set in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The dinner scene is the first one shot on the production schedule, and starts in the morning, going as long as eight hours. The food arrives hot and fresh just before...then gets gradually older and colder - "pretty gamy" in [link=nm0000633]'s words. [link=nm0261678] says that when eating the same food over and over for hours, "you gotta pace yourself." The props master - not the cast - chooses what's on the menu, though they have their preferences: [link=nm0005531] homes in on the vegetables, then complains about gas, and [link=nm3774109] (Nikki Reagan-Boyle) doesn't eat red meat after complaining early on that it stuck in her braces. Estes avoids turkey, claiming that the tryptophan slows him down and dulls his acting ability. Selleck is said to be a real meat-and-potatoes guy. Most of the cast employ techniques which make it look like they are eating: moving food around the plate with a fork, buttering a roll, but never taking a bite; [link=nm0005256] admits to mashing her food. Others drink water. Although a spit bucket is made available, it is rarely used."

The rejection reason each time is, "Does not meet contribution guidelines." Thinking that I had not properly identified actors, I revised it with the hyperlink formatting seen above. I also heeded the suggestion to consider reworking quotes from people in the first person so that it would not be accidentally misread as I, myself, making my own opinion. I have pored over the guidelines multiple times, but cannot get what I'm missing.
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CHRIS WILLIAMS

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From the trivia guide:

Do keep your submissions short and easy to read.
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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CHRIS.
This is not in the guide but should be added.
There is a 400 character limit on trivia. That's characters, not words!
Also a blatant advertising plug for the "BeeHive Oven Biscuit Cafe" would likely cause a rejection too.
Anyway.....it looks as it there is actually 5-7 separate trivia items in your posting above.
Any questions? Please just k.
Thanks
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Excellent! I was thinking when of breaking it up from one large chunk into several discrete items.

I will file away your advice about characters v. words, and be more sparing with character returns, hyphens, and ellipses.