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'Turkish Tram Conductor Blues' songwriting credit

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At the moment, the songwriting credit for 'Turkish Tram Conductor Blues' is written on the article as such:

"Wood, erroneously credited to Bevan"

While it is true that Roy Wood is the real songwriter and that Bev Bevan didn't write it, the songwriting credit was not erroneously given to Bev Bevan - the reference next to the credit outright states that "Bev was originally credited as the writer to compensate him for the promotional duties he undertook on behalf of the group..." - in other words, while a different person was originally credited for writing the song instead of the actual songwriter, the credit was deliberately given to him so it technically wasn't a mistake (kind of similar with The Monkees' 'No Time', which was written by the group but they gave the credit to their engineer to thank him for his work on the album). I think the article should be edited to clarify this.