Declined contributions (Writing credits for El mariachi, Verbena trágica)

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Declined as "unable to verify". Attempting to clarify Carlos Gallardo's role in the writing process. IMDb simply lists him as "writer" which is confusing. Robert Rodriguez wrote the screenplay in English by himself, and Gallardo assisted him in translating the dialogue into Spanish. Gallardo was uncredited, but the source for this comes from Rodriguez's 1996 memoir, Rebel Without a Crew (on page 216, in an annotation to the screenplay which is included as an appendix). I included a citation and attempted to upload evidence (a screenshot of an online PDF of the book), but the upload didn't appear to have worked.

(The full quote from the book: "Most of the dialogue was written in English. I write faster in English and knew that Carlos and I could translate it to colloquial Spanish in preproduction.")

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Declined as "does not meet contribution guidelines". This time trying to correct IMDb's writing credits for the 1938 Spanish-language film Verbena trágica. On IMDb the credits are simply "Jean Smart...screenplay" and "Miguel de Zárraga...writer", which does not accurately translate the roles as described by the film's credits. The source I used for this one was the film's entry in the AFI catalog of feature films, which transcribes the writing credits exactly as they appear onscreen. The first writing credit is for Jean Smart. It reads: "Argumento original y adaptación cinematográfica", which translates to "original story and film adaptation". The following credit reads: "Versión española de Miguel de Zárraga", which obviously translates to "Spanish version". While the change to Jean Smart's credit was accepted, the change to Miguel de Zárraga's credit was not.