Quoting kdh1949:

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Richard//Rosson [Richard Rosson (Rubber Ritchie)]

That'd be lovely, of course, but the problem with that is that he's never actually credited as "Richard Rosson". We can hardly sustain something as a "common" name which is never ever used... "Never ever used" just doesn't equal "most-credited form"... As long as this 'Harry Potter' credit is his only credit in the database, I don't see how we can "invent" a different common name. I have used this solution before in similar cases, with the significant difference that it was one odball credit among various "normal" ones: if the nickname-less name variant actually is the common name, then we can use it, and put the actual on-screen credit in the "credited as" field. That's great, but it just doesn't work if it's the man's only credit...

IMHO, the rule is clear: this seems to be exactly the situation it was meant to address. I can't say that I really understand why this section of the rules was written this way - I'd have expected something that somehow retained how the credit actually looks on-screen - but whether or not I happen to grasp the reasoning behind the rule really doesn't matter at all: it still offers a very accurate description of this particular situation, and tells us very specifically how to deal with it. Try as I might, I really don't see how we could arrive at a different outcome.

Quoting T!M:

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IMHO, the rule is clear: this seems to be exactly the situation it was meant to address. I can't say that I really understand why this section of the rules was written this way - I'd have expected something that somehow retained how the credit actually looks on-screen - but whether or not I happen to grasp the reasoning behind the rule really doesn't matter at all: it still offers a very accurate description of this particular situation, and tells us very specifically how to deal with it. Try as I might, I really don't see how we could arrive at a different outcome.

Ok.  If this is the only credit for this person, I agree that we don't need the "credited as.  But it's not clear to me which rule you are talking about:

This one:

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For any film with standard credits, take the actor information from the end credits only, with names and roles listed exactly as they are in the credits and in exactly the same order credited.

which would be Richard//Rosson (Rubber Ritchie)

or this one?

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If an actor's credited name includes a nickname, highlighted by ", ’ or ( ), list it in the middle name field. For example John "JS" Smith, John ‘JS’ Smith or John (JS) Smith

which would be Richard/(Rubber Ritchie)/Rosson?

Quoting T!M:

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The latter - which, as pointed out by others earlier, is a very specific clarification for a few very specific examples to which the general rule doesn't apply. You really can't separate these two statements, though: they belong together. First there's a general rule, and then there are some clarifications/exceptions. One of these happens to describe this particular credit in detail, and explains how we should deal with it for DVD Profiler purposes.

Thanks for the clarification. Before I proposed Richard//Rosson (Rubber Ritchie), I did say I thought Unicus was right the way he interpreted the rule, Richard/(Rubber Ritchie)/Rosson.

One observation: This unique situation is complicated because the examples with nicknames don't include the possibility of the nickname coming after the name as John Smith (JS)  -- probably because no one had ever seen it before.

Quoting T!M:

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I've seen quite a few of these already. I don't know of an easy way to search through my local database for more examples...

If you have the Database Query plugin you can search for them easily enough. Just load the Cast/Crew data then do a query for the name field & Query Paramaters set to last name field with any of the relevant characters, ', (, etc...

Edit: Seems you can't search for " with that though.

Quoting Unicus69:

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Now I just hope the screeners agree with the majority. 

Looks like they did, showing as approved.

Quoting T!M:

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Quoting kdh1949:

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probably because no one had ever seen it before.

Oh, but it's really not that rare: I've seen quite a few of these already. I don't know of an easy way to search through my local database for more examples, but the last one I remember offhand was editor Guy Picotte "Pico". As of yet, Guy Picotte still is the common name for that one, though: three titles for both variants, but we have a tiebreaker in the fact that there are a few more profiles for the nickname-less variant. So for now, that'll do, but if the balance shifts...

That doesn't mean that the people who wrote the rule had seen it.  The examples don't include one where the nickname follows the name, just where the nickname is in the middle.