You mean because the cast and crew "Credited As" feature works so well?     

No thanks.

Unlike cast or crew, I don't really care about how many movies I have that were made by a certain studio.

Let's just say, I'd never use it.  If that was so important to me, I would normalize them locally.

Maybe someone could come up with a plugin? I wouldn't know how to do it, but I''m sure it would be possible to make a local plugin that would "collect" whatever studios you'd like to locally be shown under one common name. This wouldn't affect contributions at all as the studios field would not change.

Quoting hal9g:

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Unlike cast or crew, I don't really care about how many movies I have that were made by a certain studio.

I, on the other hand, care more about the studio than I do about cast and crew...especially crew...but I don't need a 'credited as' system.

As long as the rules tell us - as they do now - that we're to enter "correct" studio names regardless of what's seen on-screen, I can do perfectly without a "credited as" system for studios. I can see how it could be useful for a few studio buffs, though.

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Quoting hal9g:

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Unlike cast or crew, I don't really care about how many movies I have that were made by a certain studio.

I, on the other hand, care more about the studio than I do about cast and crew...especially crew...but I don't need a 'credited as' system.

Interesting.

I would never make a decision to purchase or watch a movie, based on what studio(s) were involved.

Different strokes! 

Maybe what we could have is a way of creating a "parent profile" for studios.
So you could create a studio called "Paramount" and add all the variations of Paramount Pictures as children to it.
Then, when you filter, you simply select the "parent" studio and all the children are filtered as well.

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As long as the rules tell us - as they do now - that we're to enter "correct" studio names regardless of what's seen on-screen, I can do perfectly without a "credited as" system for studios. I can see how it could be useful for a few studio buffs, though.

The rules don't say anything of the kind.  Nowhere in the rules do they say you can enter what you believe is the 'correct' name regardless of what is seen on screen.  There is nothing in the rules that allow you to change a film credit of 'Touchstone Films' to 'Touchstone Pictures'.

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What about the new publisher field? I've got a pending update where a user is adding "Paramount Home Entertainment" as publisher without any documentation, and the only info I can find on the cover is a copyright for the DVD that states "Paramount Pictures" and a web address www.paramount.com/homevideo
It's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider if anyone knows it.

Paramount likes to be different.  They have never put their distribution/production name on their DVDs...at least none that I have seen. 

For some odd reason, they prefer to use the web address.  It used to be 'www.paramount.com/homevideo', and is now 'www.paramount.com/homeentertainment'.  Obviously, those are not the names of the companies.  The correct names were/are 'Paramount Home Video' and 'Paramount Home Entertainment'.  This, for me, is what the 'correct name for studios' clause is about.  Entering the 'correct' name, rather than the web address.

For 'Tomb Raider', the correct name is 'Paramount Home Video'.  Please note that this is simply my opinion based on the way the rule is worded.  Your mileage may vary.