Good comment. I can code, and I am knowledgeable about computing in general terms, but I am not a computer scientist as I haven't benefitted from the rigour of formal training. (I am a lawyer, fwiw).
At what point do I get to call myself a computer scientist? I dropped out of college halfway through.
I think it's fair to call yourself a computer scientist if you do computer science. If I walk dogs I'm a dog walker right?
If you write papers that is.
Doing cs is not coding just to clarify.
There's no real fixed meaning to computer scientist, so you can call yourself one if you like. I considered myself one when I was doing computer science research for my PhD, but I don't consider myself one now that I'm working as a software engineer.