I'm sure that much of this has to do with some members who assume rather than verify.

Someone is looking through his or her wishlist (or otherwise not directly from within the movie credits) and they notice three names in a row that are have the same role individually listed next to them. This is how all of them looked in the "old style" before dividers were incorporated into to DVDP. This person then assumes that these are three names that have simply not yet been adjusted for the database. Therefore, the person puts them under a divider and submits instead of checking or being able to check the DVD credits. Meanwhile, there are voters who are looking at the pending changes and both seeing and assuming the same thing: there were three in the old style but now they are grouped into a divider as one; this must be correct; "Yes Vote." All of this is actually true without the need to check 99.99% of the time. In both cases, they are "only trying to help." They aren't trying to be malicious or anything of that nature by messing up one piece of data.

However, there is that 0.01% that are like this example where the roles are actually listed individually on the DVD credits.


While there are some pieces of data that you do not need the DVD to verify (BY since it's listed in a topic here; or MC, run time, and video formats which may be found on the back cover scan), what this topic basically proves to me is that although in a huge majority of situations the grouping via a divider is the correct choice, it can no longer be assumed to be the correct choice and always needs to be checked directly on the DVD to be sure.

I have seen the individual roles like this quite a bit in my collection as well. Of course Katatonia and I have a lot of titles in common. 

Quoting CharlieM:

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I never change to groups, unless I verify on the disc.

Same here. Unfortunately, most people just assume... And then there are those - as still evidenced by the current votes on bbbbb's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' contribution - that are completely convinced that even these individual credits warrant the use of divider. 

OK, so my guesstimations were way off. If anything, it makes my point more valid

Individual as the roles are repeated in the credits.

Donnie

Quoting T!M:

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I never change to groups, unless I verify on the disc.

Same here. Unfortunately, most people just assume... And then there are those [...] that are completely convinced that even these individual credits warrant the use of divider.

Charming example:

That should have been an obvious one...unless it is in a non-native english speaking country.

Wouldn't that be "Himselves"?