Nice idea 

I'm undecided on this one.

One one hand it may save some time. On the other hand it might mislead some people into entering the wrong information; "If it says that Joe Schmoe is an editor, then I guess he is..."

Defaults are tricky... 

This could be done by retooling the Credit Lookup Tool . for example if you look up Stanley Kubrick you get this result:
"stanley kubrick" is credited in the following 96 titles (754 profiles):

But it could read as follows - "stanley kubrick" is credited (Director/, screenplay,/produced) in the following 96 titles (754 profiles):
Then maybe each of the branches of Director, Screenplay, Producer could be link'd down even further in the master data base ..

Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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I am with Gunnar but perhaps for slightly different resaon. I also see it as giving people a reason to pay less attention the Credits and thus we could wind up with some bad data.

Suppose in your example, Draxen that Angelo Badalamenti was actually credited as Sound Editor instead of his usual Music Composer but you just followed your default....whoopsie.

Skip

Yes, I considered about this myself, before making the feature request... I guess the use of word "suggesting" is very misleading actually.

But Skip/Gunnar: Maybe I'm an optimist after all, despite everything  , but... I personally don't believe we would end up in trouble with contributors blindly accepting the default crew role the program has selected. I do trust that the people who actually do the crew contributions by diligently checking the actual credits one by one, take these things "seriously" enough not to rush Enter-Enter-doubletaps after assigning role.

But of course you might be right. We never know if we don't try - and whether this adaptation is worth the risk, is of course another matter altogether... If users get too used to finding out that the default selection is correct 90% of the time or thereabouts, even the best contributors might get lulled to neglect the doublechecks. That, admittedly, is a possibility but I doubt it really would happen.

Everytime the default selection was right, you could enter every crew member without having to use mouse, just with keyboard shortcuts and accepting default 'OK's with [Enter] - which would be nice and quick... that's why I suggested this in the first place.