This must have come up before, but I can't find it, so...

If the sole on-screen writing credit is "Screenplay By", with no form of original material credited, then then how do we list that? Is it "Writer" or "Screenwriter"?

I'm asking because I have it listed as "Screenwriter" and there's now a contribution coming up proposing to change it to "Writer", while the contributor writes: "As this is an original screenplay, the credit should be Writer, not Screenwriter".

I'd vote no based on the crew chart. Doesn't make any exceptions whether it's the sole on-screen writing credit or not. Screenplay = Screenwriter.

Looking good. 

Still, with the crew credits table in the contribution rules being so black and white on the matter, it's baffling to me that - as of yet - 25% of the voters in this poll pick the wrong answer anyway. Worse: the pending contribution that prompted this thread still has two "yes"-votes (supporting the incorrect change to "writer") as well.

Quoting AiAustria:

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It's new to me, that there are wrong answers in votings 

"Wrong" in regards to the contribution rules, which, as others have noted, really don't leave any room for a different interpretation.

Quoting AiAustria:

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If there is no room, then the poll is useless.

Quite the contrary. In my humble opinion - and, from the various posts above, not just mine - there's no wiggle room here, no. Still this thread, including the poll results and the various responses, certainly *is* useful to me, for multiple reasons:

- they took away any doubt that I may have had;
- they serve as a longer explanation for my no-vote to the contributor who's trying to make that change;
- they also serve to convince the other voters and ultimately the screeners, to make the "right" decision.

So yeah, it's very useful to me, and that's exactly why I asked - despite already knowing what the correct answer was.