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[edit] Screenwriting credit

Self-nom. An article on the convoluted process by the Writers Guild of America which determines who "wrote" a film. Comprehensive article and bibliography. Was on peer review here a couple months back. And, no, there's no picture. I don't know how anyone would illustrate it, short of a screen capture of the relevant title cards. PedanticallySpeaking 18:16, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. From the content, this is FA material to me (although some footnotes to indicate the section/paragraph some figures were found in would be fitting). However, the title is innapropriate unless the current article is expanded to cover screenwriting credit attribution processes in other countries. I'm not usually one to complain about Wikipedia being too US-centered, but let's not exaggerate either; screenwriting credit is too generic a title for the current article. Phils 19:23, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree, this article is good but it only covers the WGA, so it should be named in such a way that people know that the article only talks about the credit as ruled on by the WGA. For a picture you may want to use the WGA logo or the cover of a screenplay--nixie 03:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comments. A good picture would be a screen capture of the title credits for a movie mentioned in the article that had gone through WGA arbitration—especially if it was a complicated one with a couple of writing teams. You also don't mention the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym that gets used when writers want to disassociate themselves from a film. And what about Harlan Ellison's fight over The Terminator? BlankVerse ∅ 09:54, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I thought Alan Smithee was just for directors who wanted to remove their name. PedanticallySpeaking 17:17, May 10, 2005 (UTC)