it sounds like aussielegend also thinks we should use proper english in the credits i don't see anything about this in the manual of style or in the tv specific guidelines at wikiproject television this might be a matter that could be taken there to see if there's a consensus on what should be done i personally think we should go with what the episode credits say using things like jeffrey lieber and j j abrams damon lindelof this way we preserve the information about who worked together and who worked separately since the information is in a table and not in the middle of a sentence i see no reason to correct grammar here and i'm usually really picky about grammar the best example that comes to mind is pirates of the caribbean the curse of the black pearl where the credits list writers as ted elliott terry rossio and stuart beattie and jay wolpert clearly the first two worked together while the last two worked independently of the others i think that information is important and if it were an episode of a tv series should be listed as such in the episode table whenever i type in writers i always go with whatever the episode says of course from what i can remember i've never dealt with an episode from more than two writers before again though there is no statement anywhere in policy that i can find that specifies which format should be used