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Duplicate Keywords - List #12 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion)
Here is the next installment of my lists of proposed keywords for permanent merger and auto-conversion.
I am posting this for fellow contributors to review first and raise any objections or questions. I will wait at least seven days before changing this post to a "problem" post and asking IMDb staff to make the proposed mergers.
The mergers should be made in the direction of the arrows.
Duplicate Keywords Proposed for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion
american-embassy (55 titles) ---> u.s.-embassy (78 titles)
american-government (120 titles) ---> us-government (21 titles) ---> u.s.-government (132 titles)
american-history (546 titles) ---> us-history (14 titles) ---> u.-s.-history (2 titles) ---> u.s.-history (141 titles)
american-president (356 titles) ---> president-of-the-united-states-of-america (57 titles) ---> united-states-president (15 titles) ---> u.s.-president (1225 titles) ---> us-president (21 titles) ---> u-s-president (2 titles) ---> president-of-the-united-states (104 titles)
american-soldier (382 titles) ---> american-soldiers (5 titles) ---> u.s.-soldier (420 titles)
cheat (329 titles) ---> cheating (1924 titles)
college-girl (449 titles) ---> college-girls (21 titles) ---> female-college-student (36 titles)
co-worker (575 titles) ---> co-workers (12 titles) ---> coworkers (6 titles) ---> coworker (42 titles)
coworker-relationship (153 titles) ---> co-worker-relationship (8 titles) ---> co-worker-co-worker-relationship (559 titles) ---> coworker-coworker-relationship [this keyword does not yet exist]
disaster-movie (256 titles) ---> disaster-film (363 titles)
disturbed-individual (255 titles) ---> disturbed-person (97 titles)
laptop (1296 titles) ---> laptop-computer (713 titles)
listening-to-radio (374 titles) ---> listening-to-the-radio (134 titles) ---> listening-to-a-radio (499 titles)
main-character-dies (546 titles) ---> death-of-main-character (311 titles) ---> death-of-lead-character (7 titles) ---> death-of-protagonist (882 titles)
man-in-underwear (374 titles) ---> men-in-underwear (6 titles) ---> man-wears-underwear (813 titles)
photo (227 titles) ---> photograph (8879 titles)
reading-out-loud (443 titles) ---> reading-aloud (542 titles)
roleplay (49 titles) ---> role-play (162 titles) ---> role-playing (837 titles)
running-for-your-life (215 titles) ---> running-for-one's-life (44 titles)
situation-comedy (286 titles) ---> situational-comedy (40 titles) ---> sit-com (5 titles) ---> sitcom (1978 titles)
strait-jacket (333 titles) ---> straitjacket (83 titles)
teenage (341 titles) ---> teenaged (3 titles) ---> teenager (19119 titles)
u.s.-civil-war (95 titles) ---> american-civil-war (597 titles)
u.s.-politics (217 titles) ---> american-politics (1109 titles)
video-tape (361 titles) ---> videotape (807 titles)
woman-in-bathtub (337 titles) ---> woman-in-a-bathtub (532 titles)
woman-in-underwear (330 titles) ---> women-in-underwear (1 title) ---> woman-wears-underwear (282 titles)
women-fight (333 titles) ---> fighting-women (50 titles) ---> women-fighting (378 titles) ---> woman-fighting-a-woman (15 titles) ---> woman-fights-a-woman (246 titles)
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3 years ago
The American Civil War is the more common name used by sources like Wikipedia and Britannica.
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3 years ago
@Michelle Now that the 7-day comment period on this list has passed, I have changed the post to a "problem" post, and it is ready for action by IMDb staff.
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3 years ago
@Michelle
I wonder if it would be possible to reverse one item in this post?
Can we switch the keyword "u.s.-history" back in favor of "american-history" (for both merger and auto-conversion)?
u.s.-history (700 titles) --> american-history
I have come to realize that "american-history" is a better keyword because it captures the time prior to the formation of the United States government, during both pre-colonial and colonial times. It doesn't make sense to refer to pre-1776 history as "u.s.-history," because the United States of America did not yet exist.
Plus, the keyword "american-history" was much more popular than "u.s.-history" prior to the mergers made in response to this list.
The "u.s.-" prefix is probably best kept solely for true references to the United States of America, particularly references to the federal government.
Is it possible to reverse this keyword merger/auto-conversion?
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2 years ago
@Michelle,
It looks like the following keywords, while merged, were never set up for auto-conversion, and as a result some of them have now been re-created and are being used all over again. Can you please re-merge these keywords and set them up for auto-conversion?
reading-out-loud (1 title) ---> reading-aloud (986 titles)
roleplay (16 titles) ---> role-play (7 titles) ---> role-playing (1057 titles)
running-for-your-life (0 titles) ---> running-for-one's-life (260 titles)
situation-comedy (18 titles) ---> situational-comedy (0 titles) ---> sit-com (0 titles) ---> sitcom (2313 titles)
And by the way, I should point out once again the redundancy of this keyword:
sitcom-comedy (256 titles)
That keyword now appears on the list of "accepted" subgenre keywords, but it should probably be merged into "sitcom" as well. ("sitcom-comedy" is redundant).
Edit: these permanent fixes have now been achieved.
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