MobyGames News Today we enforced a modification of policy that
previously allowed credits for compilations. As of right now, we
no longer accept credits for compilations unless the credits
being entered are specific additions for that compilation only.
All extraneous credits for compilations have been deleted as of
today.  Why this change in policy? Because allowing redundant
credits for compilations was "polluting" the database. For
example, let's take the example of programmer X, who worked on
Pool of Radiance. Pool of Radiance was originally published by
SSI. But in the late 1990s, Interplay began distributing Pool of
Radiance. Because full credits were re-entered for that
Interplay compilation, the database now reflected that
programmer X had previously worked for SSI and Interplay, when
that simply wasn't true. Multiply that for the number of
compilations in the database (over 80 and counting), and you can
see how bad the problem would get.  Although we wanted to do
this a while ago, we procrastinated an