I believe trailing periods and the word "for" if prefixed to the phrase are removed auto-magically upon submission.

At least for the US locality.  Don't know if this is locality-specific or not.

It is intentional, to provide a consistent format to submissions.

Quoting whispering:

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After contributing, the online is removing the last dot in the rating description.

Is this intended or an error?

Unfortunately intentional and sucks. I sended several mails to Ken during the  beta testing about this, but he refuses to remove that filter. Not giving any reason though. This filter doesn't do any good, just bad. I have all my rating fields locked.

There is much about the rating description rules that I disagree with which is why most of mine are locked.

Quoting Unicus69:

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Maybe I am missing something, but why is the lack of a period such a big deal?  Are these complete sentences in some areas? 

Yes, and in many cases more than one sentence, where all except the last one end with a period.
Not a big deal, but since leaving it alone would have been the easiest solution to begin with...

Quoting Unicus69:

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Maybe I am missing something, but why is the lack of a period such a big deal?  Are these complete sentences in some areas? 

Heres an example of an Rating Description in 28 Weeks Laters:

"Synkkätunnelmaisessa kauhuelokuvassa runsaasti pitkitettyä, veristä väkivaltaa sekä väkivallan uhkaan liittyvää kauhua. Hyvin vaikuttavat akustiset ja visuaaliset tehosteet."

Rough english translation:
"In an gloomy horror movie plenty of prolonged, bloody violence and horror related threat of violence. Very impressive acoustic and visual effects."

That is the official rating description from Finnish Board of Film Classification that explanes why it got an 18 rating.

I'm not gonna lose my sleep over it, but the last dot should be there.
I'm not going to lock the field, i found it to be too much of a hassle to always check with every profile that i have the needed locks in place. So desided to remove most of them. Now i only lock my own covers and titles that i want to be displayed my way.

Just realised something, that movie 28 Weeks Later actually has the last dot in the rating description. It was contributed: January 11, 2009 10:07 PM

So it might be this has been fixed now. I only recently updated all profiles, since i was waiting for the 3.5 rules to find their place. So the ones i saw the error in, might be old contributions.

EDIT: Last contributions i made (Mar 30, 2009) that had Rating Description, has the dot. So this has been fixed, long before i noticed it

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND the error is back in there

Edit: but in cases where rating description is only one sentence. So not a biggie.