If you have a crew member credited with a slightly different role from what is in the allowed list of credits can they be entered or must the role 100% match the allowed credits list

some examples of partially matching/spelling credits
Editor
Production Design
Art Direction
Recording
Re-recording Engineer 
Re-recordist
Rerecorded By
Screen Play By
Designer
Costumes Designed By
Costumer
Special Effects Photography
and I'm sure there are many others

Just to make it clear i am not talking about credits that have a significant extra word "Sound Effects Editor" i am talking about credits that have a slightly different spelling or a word less than what is in the allowed list

IMO it is simply impossible and unfeasible for the rules to cover literally every single accepted crew role. I think we can safely assume that credits like "Production Design" are allowed as long as "Production Designer" is.

I always enter credits that with every practical interpretation means the same thing such as these.

I think the rules should be amended accordingly, so that people are not reading them too exclusively - so that rules allow inclusion of crew-role variants that obviously mean the same thing.

Either we create a constantly expanding database of every possible acceptable crew role variation, or we simply have to trust the users to interpret correctly those innumerable variations - most likely wrong interpretations will get caught in the voting process anyway (unless new contribution, of course). I recommend the latter.

As long as I'm confident that the credit is for the person we're after, I include them. There are simply too many variations to list all of them in the rules.

I don't see anybody not putting in credits for

"Production Designed by" (Production Designer)
"Costumes Designed by" (Costume Designer)


And there are not any examples for

Creature Designer, but people are entering variations for that

Song Writer, Theme Writer, Original Characters by, Created by (although all but dead) same thing 

So yes, I can see and accept certain "partial credits"  as long as they fit into the categories that are available.

Charlie

All these IMO legit spelling variants show that the wording of rules should be changed to allow them.

Designer (in reference to what?) UK credit for Production Designer

Special Effects Photography (no) find this one interesting as 2 of you have now said no to this, is there a difference between this credit and Special Photographic Effects

Agree with Charlie.

"Designer" is indeed a credit used in the UK for Production Designer.

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for the list

Re-recordist (yes)

I don't think that a re-recordits do the same job of a re-recording mixer, should be more something like recordist.

It's a separate credit.

Again, I think it is one of those credits depending on the age of the movie as to how it should be credited.  Sound Re-recordist is an allowed credit.