So I'm doing an Italian film called "The Card Player" from Dario Argento and in the opening credits I just came across a new writing credit. The credit is "Dialogue by".

Existing profile has screenwriter for them, but also for the next 2 "story by", then writer where screen says screenwriter. Methinks it's old imdb data (now fixed on imdb) but still not sure what to do with the dialogie credits, which of course are different people than the story by/screenwriter credits (if the same, I'd ignore or make a local role for dialogue).

I'm leaning toward local only, custom dialogue role but want to see what others feel, or if I missed something in rules that covers this. I know dialogue isn't full writing credit, but it's gotta be worth at least half!

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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Since it isn't in the crew chart... I would do it as local only like you described.

^This

Yeah, there are any number of older films where you see an "Additional Dialog" credit.  We've been consistently dropping that credit for years now.  I will say that, if the only writing credit I saw was a generic "Dialog By", then I would give that a screenplay credit.