When it comes to the writers of TV shows and movies, I don’t feel that it’s appropriate that the writer of the source material like books and comics be given a writer’s credit for the TV show or movie (unless of course they did actually write the screenplay). If there should be a credit given on here, it should be under another heading such as Original Source Writer or something like it. It skews the stats a fair bit where I have people like Jack Kirby and the like as having written a recent film based on their work when they been long since passed away.
I don’t think it’s an issue of proper crediting per se, on the tv/movie page the credit is given with the credit-type in between brackets.
It would just be great if novel/book/comic/other original content type credits would be filtered out of the stats. Or be it’s separate stats.
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This sounds like a discussion that should be directed to TMDB. Trakt just pulls data that is entered into TMDB so if the error is caused by their users entering data in an unsatisfactory way, Trakt cannot try to make assumptions to engineer around and catch that less precise user data.
It’s done right on TMDb. There are separate credits (crew jobs) for something like Novel, Comic Book Writer etc. But also Teleplay, Screenplay etc. If they are added like that, the teleplay, screenplay, novel whatever appears on Trakt like I said.
I’m just assuming they also appear in the most watched writer stats. Because that’s what OP is complaining about. I think (s)he would bother to check that before “complaining” 
This could be worth considering for the stats page calculations. IIRC the first iteration of that page when it debuted only counted credits as “writer” so it wasn’t counting screenplay, story, etc which was obviously missing a lot of credits that should be included. It is currently counting all contributors in the writing categories.
Maybe the stats page calc should ignore writing credits for source materials (characters, book, novel, comic book, etc)? Currently my stats page is a lot of writers who never touched a screenplay (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie). I think either approach is a valid one.
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Maybe I didn’t write my suggestion the right way, or use the proper terminology, but essentially what I want is to not have those who did not write a screenplay or a teleplay included in the top writer stats calculations. Its inaccurate.
Who really cares anyway just turn it off before the credits come (on ene of film ) there you go
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