I had the exact same situation for Batman Forever today. I also contributed it as Make-up Artist, but believe it should be Make-Up effects.  So I'm curious as to the result of this poll.

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The same goes for Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Phil Tippett and Stuart Freeborn both credited for "Make-up and Creature Design".

The way I see that credit is to break it up: that becomes "Make-up Design" & "Creature Design".
Someone who "Designs" is a "Designer", so they fall in to the catagory of "Make-up Designer" and "Creature Designer".
"Creature Designer" has an exact credit, whereas "Make-up Designer" falls in to "Make-up Artist" (in the Credited As column of the Credits rules page).
I fail to see how that could be read as "Make-up Effects", as there is really no mention of effects at all in the credit 
Quoting cvermeylen:

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For Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Stuart Freeborn is credited for "Make-up and Special Creature Design".

This ends up as "Make-up Designer" and "Special Creature Designer". The only debate I see here is whether the word "Special" in the credit means that they can't be assigned the "Creature Designer" role, as there are no variants specified in the Credited As column of the Credits rules page  .
"Special" could either infer a superior aspect to the credit (He designed all the uber special creatures), or an inferior aspect (he just designed some special cases). If there were no other credited "Creature Designer" then I would not object to the role being assigned to them. If there were another "Creature Designer" credited, then it would be hard to assess, which normally means do not assign the role to them (if in doubt, leave them out).

Only if he would have been credited as "Special Make-up and Creature Design" he could have been entered as Make-up Effects, but as it says "Make-up and Special Creature Design" he should be entered as Make-up Artist. The word "Special" in the role descriptions is just an abbreviation for "Special Effects" and could either be ignored or used to enter a particular crew member with the appropriate role.

While "Make-up" is listed in the crew table, "Special Creature Design" is not. Additionally, it is not clear from the rules what to do with two crew roles combined with "and". The rules should allow functional equivalents and role name variants.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Quoting RHo:

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While "Make-up" is listed in the crew table, "Special Creature Design" is not. Additionally, it is not clear from the rules what to do with two crew roles combined with "and". The rules should allow functional equivalents and role name variants.

True but CreatUre Design IS. So the question comes down to what does Lucas mean by SPECIAL Creature Design. It is certainly not a part of the make-up Department. But it MIGHT be a Contrutable piece of Creature design.

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Strictly following the rules "Special Creature Design" is not contributable because it is not listed exactly like this in the crew table. Remember: the rules do not allow role name variants yet.

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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Special Creature Design is still Creature Design. Every 'Creature' (baby, creature name, ...) designer who has a movie credit, get this credit in dvd profiler, otherwise there is nothing much left to credit in this field.

The rules:

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For each category, include only those people credited with the roles listed in the "Role" and "Credited As" columns. If someone is not credited with one of these roles (or direct translations of these roles), do not include them in the Crew section.

"Special Creature Design" is not listed, neither in the "Role" column nor in the "Credited As" column.
We really need a rule change to include name variants and functional equivalents.

If I recall correctly the people who created Predator and/or Alien aren't exactly credited with a Creature Design credit.

It reads something like:
Predator created by...
Alien designed by...

Or on some sci-fi films I think I recall seeing credits where it reads something like.

(Specific Alien name here) Makeup created by....
(Specific Alien name here) Makeup Effects by.....

So I agree with RHo on this, the rules needs to be updated because as written currently none of these would really be allowed to be contributed at this time.

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