How can I prevent 'Various Artists' albums being broken up in library?

Sorry, maybe this is a basic question. I'm new to using itunes. Lots of my music very non-mainstream, so iTunes can't find the tag info. So I have started to fill in missing tags myself, which is fine. But for albums with various artists, I thought I could prevent iTunes from splitting them up if I filled in "various artists" for "artist" and the individual artist for "album artist". Unfortunately, I find this is not the case. These albums still wind up being split up when I import them into the library. Is the only way to get them to display together to list various artist for both "artist" and "album artist"????

Set the Albums as "Compilation" in the Get Info field for the various tracks. To select multiple items such as all the songs in an album, click on the first track in the list hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight the selection. Right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, you'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, choose yes. Down in the left hand corner of the info box change Compilation to yes.
If you want to see your Compilations in the iTunes Browser Window go to Edit>Preferences>General and check the box "group compilations when browsing". To turn on Browsing go to View>Show Browser or click on the browser "eye" icon in the bottom right of your iTunes window. Compilations will appear in the Artist box.

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