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Redump actually uses "Bard's Tale, The" in the datfile in the downloads section (I think this is an automatic conversion), but yeah, the No-Intro guide isn't actually that helpful here.

You should get dumper status when someone adds the dumps you posted to the database (but that can take a few days).

The wiki says that there's one missing Korean Wii disc: Revision 0 of Deca Sporta: Wiiro Jeulgineun Sports "10" Jongmok! / 데카스포르타 Wii로 즐기는 스포츠 "10"종목!.  You can determine a disc's revision by looking at the mastering code; in the case of that game, if it contains "RVL-RDXK-0A-0" it would be revision 0 while "RVL-RDXK-0A-1" would be revision 1.

On any of the results pages (e.g. discs -> Sony Playstation), at the top it'll say "Displaying results 1 - 500 of 10449", so there are 10449 total discs in the collection.  Filtering to America (http://redump.org/discs/system/psx/region/Am/) gives 1966 (one of which appears to be canadian, and the rest USA)

From http://forum.redump.org/topic/19835/is- … dump-uses/ and http://forum.redump.org/post/56061/#p56061 it looks like there are other regions that aren't linked directly; for instance I gives Italy, and U gives USA.  (Oddly, I get 1964 US discs and 1 Canadian disc, which doesn't quite add up).  If you want to figure out the region code for something specific, you can right-click the flag and select "view image"; the URL will be something like http://redump.org/images/regions/I.png and from that you can see that I is Italy.  (Or you can just guess at URLs; that's worked fairly well for me.)

Here's my experience (which may not be the best practice):

1. For most of the things I've dumped, I only dumped them once, using DICUI and a Plexor PX-W4012TA (for CDs) or a TS-H352C (for Xbox 360) or the DVD drive in my laptop (for video DVDs).  However, if it seems like something's gone wrong, I'll usually dump it another time with the same drive.  For Wii or GameCube games, if it dumped successfully once, I don't bother with doing it a second time, except for unlicensed games by Datel where it can't detect errors during the dump process.  If you're verifying an existing dump, you probably don't need to dump with multiple drives.  (That said, I also haven't dumped anything with unusual copy protection, where things may be different.)

2. I don't know anything about this.

3. I've never edited the dat file.  DICUI prompts for information that goes into a !submissionInfo.txt, which I usually submit directly (sometimes I edit it afterwards to tweak language, version, or contents info).  I upload all of the files (other than img/iso/bin/scm) though.  I think the metadata in the dat file is to match the format seen in datfiles from http://redump.org/downloads/ and doesn't matter for the individual ones.

Datel titles usually have their main code starting at 0x50000000.  If that area is completely blank, your dump is probably bad.  Cleanrip 2.1.1 doesn't know what to do with most datel titles and will have everything after 0x01F00000 zero'd out without trying to read it, while 2.0.0-datel2 will attempt to read it, ignoring any errors for the unreadable sectors and filling those sectors with 0x55.  If everything is still 0x55, that's a bad sign.  Also if there are 0x55-filled sectors in the middle of code that otherwise looks fine, that's probably a bad sign.

Check if the game starts properly on console; if it's unable to read it normally when you launch it, then there's no hope of cleanrip doing the right thing unfortunately.  Otherwise, you can try testing your dumps with dolphin; Datel being Datel the games don't launch unless you've got the GC bios and have DSP LLE enabled though.  If you get error messages other than FIFO overruns, and if it doesn't start, your dump probably still isn't correct.

Even if you eventually get something that matches what's in the database, verification dumps are always useful (especially for discs as volatile as these).

It's also worth noting that the numbers in the ringcode can be the same for multiple discs; Advance Game Port and both Cheat Construction Kit videos (PAL and NTSC) are 04070501 (see images), though they have different text.  To my understanding, the numbers are a date (in the form of year month day 01); the Cube magazine discs help establish this.