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Duplicate Keywords - List #2 (Proposal for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion)
Here is the second installment in my list of duplicate keywords proposed for permanent merging and auto-conversion.
As with the first list, I propose that the IMDb community be allowed one week to review and comment on this list before I formally submit it to IMDb staff for action.
Every duplicate keyword (or combination of multiple keywords) on this list has at least 50 titles.
The mergers should be made in the direction of the arrows.
Duplicate Keywords Proposed for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion
car-driving (416 titles) ---> driving-car (62 titles) ---> driving-a-car (644 titles)
cellphone (122 titles) ---> cellular-telephone (60 titles) ---> cell-phone (5769 titles)
clay-animation (182 titles) ---> claymation (243 titles)
colour-in-episode-title (540 titles) ---> color-in-episode-title (817 titles)
death-by-fall (8 titles) ---> death-by-falling (124 titles) ---> death-from-a-fall (12 titles) ---> fall-to-death (296 titles) ---> falling-to-one's-death (89 titles) ---> falling-to-death (785 titles)
ex-football-player (69 titles) ---> former-football-player (68 titles)
eye-witness (235 titles) ---> eyewitness (129 titles)
former-lover (110 titles) ---> former-lovers (41 titles) ---> ex-lover (251 titles)
frameup (146 titles) ---> frame-up (1897 titles)
imposter (430 titles) ---> impostor (1165 titles)
loss-of-memory (140 titles) ---> memory-loss (606 titles)
make-up (439 titles) ---> makeup (624 titles)
racial-relations (71 titles) ---> race-relations (901 titles)
reflection-in-mirror (65 titles) ---> reflection-in-a-mirror (210 titles)
school-teacher (664 titles) ---> schoolteacher (965 titles)
secret-passage (487 titles) ---> secret-passageway (160 titles)
southern-u.s. (317 titles) ---> southern-united-states (51 titles)
suicide-thoughts (72 titles) ---> suicidal-thought (24 titles) ---> suicidal-thoughts (272 titles)
switching-bodies (76 titles) ---> switch-bodies (11 titles) ---> body-switching (138 titles)
teen-prostitute (61 titles) ---> teenage-prostitute (110 titles)
usa (2418 titles) ---> u.s.a. (15 titles) ---> united-states (619 titles) ---> united-states-of-america (1055 titles)
western-u.s. (52 titles) ---> western-united-states (25 titles)
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keyword_expert
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3 years ago
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bradley_kent
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3 years ago
Most of these are quite good, with a couple exceptions:
former-footbll-player should be changed to ex-football-player
(I think there was a previous post on this, with "ex-" being the preferred antecedent for such keywords. Also, look at your ex-lover preference.)
There has also been previous discussion about acronyms, with the preference being for the acronym followed by its definition for those who may not know what the acronym stands for. Some examples from that previous discussion made preferred keywords like fbi-federal-bureau-of-investigation, cia-central-intelligence-agency, etc. This allows for the same searching, whether using fbi or fedreal-bureau-of-investigation, cia or central-intelligence-agency, etc. Once this has been established, then the acronym, itself, can be used in other keywords, i.e. fbi-agent, cia-director, reference-to-the-fbi, reference-to-the-cia, etc. While the use of usa as an acronym is probably known by close to everyone, for consistency's sake, that keyword should probably be usa-united-states-of-america, although, in this case, usa may suffice.
western-united-states? western-usa? This may need defining. To some of my New York "Go West, Young Man" friends, the west begins in Ohio!
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bradley_kent
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@Michelle
IMDb may stand for the Internet Movie Database, but I’ve always felt like it also stands for the International Movie Database. With users all over the globe, acronyms should be clearly understandable.
Please, merge “fbi” into “fbi-federal-bureau-of-investigation” and “cia” into “cia-central-intelligence-agency.” This has no adverse effect on searches. In fact, it may well improve them.
Look at this:
cia (46 titles)
cia-central-intelligence-agency (891 titles)
fbi (314 titles)
fbi-federal-bureau-of-investigation (1437 titles)
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