What is your minimal requirement for someone to call themselves guitarist?
What is your minimal level that begginer guitar player has to cross to call themselves guitarist?
What is your minimal level that begginer guitar player has to cross to call themselves guitarist?
I can't remember who wrote it, but there's a short essay by a Japanese noise rock artist (maybe Agata from Melt Banana?) on 'How to be a guitarist' and it basically says 'Get a guitar. Tune it if you like but this isn't necessary.' So, yeah: that's about where I'm at on the question.
Don't really think there's a minimum - sure maybe you ought to have picked up a guitar but there's no minimum proficiency for creative arts.
Answer is probably different if you're trying to hire a guitarist for something or if you're trying to decide whether some random person is a guitarist.
Anyone can call themselves a guitarist but there are only half a dozen Certified Guitar Players.
I started playing when I was 10 years old in 1966. I have been a guitarist the entire time. I am slightly better now, though.
Trying to define this or answer this question is an exercise in futility.
If you feel comfortable calling yourself a guitarist, poof-- you are one, regardless of what anyone else says. I wish I'd deeply bought into this decades sooner. Comparisons are odious. Rock on.