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In the meantine however (and that was my reason to post here), am I to understand from those replies that the consensus is to give the lesser of two credits when the actual credit cannot be entered and falls between two existing credits?

No. If it cannot be entered, it cannot be entered.

So, let me see if I got it right:
Imagine a megalomaniac director/producer (some are, I am told) who decides to credit himself as, say, "Supreme Ruler of the Movie Set", and this is how his name appears in the film credits (not as director, not as producer). You are telling me that the profile should have a blank field for director, a blank field for producer, and that the name of that director/producer should not appear in the profile?

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So, let me see if I got it right:
Imagine a megalomaniac director/producer (some are, I am told) who decides to credit himself as, say, "Supreme Ruler of the Movie Set", and this is how his name appears in the film credits (not as director, not as producer). You are telling me that the profile should have a blank field for director, a blank field for producer, and that the name of that director/producer should not appear in the profile?

Without some kind of contributable custom credits, which btw has been requested many times, this is the way it has to be done for the online. What you do locally is entirely up to you of course.

I seldomly do any crew update.. but going by the rules if the credit is not in the chart then it cannot be added to the online database.

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Group names of crew members together within each role available and list in exactly the same order credited. The table below gives each of the crew roles available within DVD Profiler. For each category, include only those people credited with the roles listed in the "Role" and "Credited As" columns. If someone is not credited with one of these roles (or direct translations of these roles), do not include them in the Crew section.

As the rule stands today... I don't see how anyone can add anything at all that isn't in the chart. Even if it means there will be no Director or no Producer or what have you in the profile.

Of course locally you can have whatever you want. But it can't be uploaded to the online if it isn't in the chart or a direct translation (for foreign movies).