Duplicate Keywords - List #33 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) (one-word keywords pt. 2)

@scgary66​ 

I'm not sure how some users feel about the 'soccer' keyword, as most fans of the sport globally call it football; the 'soccer-football' keyword was created as a compromise.

The question here, though, is whether to merge these duplicate keywords into "soccer" or something else. Since the keyword "soccer" is 30+ more times popular than "soccer-football," it seems that the community has spoken in favor of "soccer" as the preferred keyword. Plus, "soccer" is not ambiguous; it's the keyword "football" that could be construed as ambiguous.

As for 'deceiver', I think revising to 'deception' is more appropriate. 

But "deceiver" is referring to a person rather than the act of deceiving. A "deceiver" is someone who deceives. Seems like "liar" is a duplicate for that.

@scgary66​ p.s. There is also this keyword, which I am proposing to leave alone:

american-football (1941 titles)

@keyword_expert​ Yes, of course. But one could also make the argument that site users are entering 'football' when they mean 'soccer' (and I suspect a lot of them would be hostile to the latter), and that the community has "spoken for" the more vague keyword, which is not ideal. Besides, searching for the keyword 'football' won't turn up the titles under 'soccer', so the solution ought to accommodate that problem.

@scgary66​ I agree the vagueness of the keyword "football" is a problem, but I don't see how to solve that problem in the context of one of my simple lists of proposed mass mergers and auto-conversions.

You had a good idea about how the system could and should suggest different terms when people try to enter the keyword "football," but that would require changes to the system itself (again, beyond the scope of this thread). It's a good idea, and perhaps it could be proposed in a new thread.

@bradley_kent​ 

"life" is not the greatest keyword, and I don't recall ever using it, but one basic dictionary definition is "a living being," and a more detailed definition is "the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally."

Edit: I suspect that most people are using this keyword with this definition in mind: "the general or universal condition of human existence." 

In answer to your final question, there is probably not "life" in every title. A documentary about another planet, an animated title with only robots as characters, an experimental film that only shows psychedelic images -- all of those titles (and more) arguably don't have "life."