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Duplicate Keywords - List #4 (Proposal for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion)

Here is the fourth installment in my list of duplicate keywords proposed for permanent merging and auto-conversion.

As with my prior lists, 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

book-seller (53 titles)   ---> bookseller (19 titles)


book-shelf (55 titles)  ---> bookshelf (107 titles)


book-store (114 titles)  ---> bookstore (611 titles)


books (130 titles)  ---> book (4118 titles)


break-up (1648 titles)  ---> breakup (994 titles)


burnt-body (198 titles)  ---> burned-body (133 titles)


burnt-corpse (89 titles)  ---> burned-corpse (10 titles)


burnt-face (296 titles)  ---> burned-face (44 titles)


burnt-hand (104 titles)  ---> burned-hand (70 titles)


cars (136 titles) ---> car (6663 titles)


characters (131 titles)  ---> character (329 titles)


curtains (52 titles)  ---> curtain (241 titles)


drug-store (66 titles)  ---> drugstore (276 titles)


face-wound (55 titles)  ---> facial-wound (43 titles)

jewellery (58 titles)  ---> jewelry (812 titles)


labour (68 titles)  ---> labor (265 titles)


man-crying (358 titles)  ---> crying-man (1381 titles)


rocks (54 titles)  ---> rock (1178 titles)


school-child (88 titles)  ---> schoolchild (12 titles)

school-girl-costume (68 titles)  --->  schoolgirl-costume (192 titles)


ship-building (55 titles)  ---> shipbuilding (30 titles)


spit-in-face (74 titles)  ---> spitting-in-face (44 titles)   ---> spit-in-the-face (324 titles)   ---> spit-in-someone's-face (9 titles)   ---> spitting-into-someone's-face (18 titles)   ---> spitting-in-someone's-face (135 titles)


swimming-suit (18 titles)  ---> swim-suit (29 titles)   ---> swimsuit (920 titles)


tools (114 titles)  ---> tool (124 titles)


trees (206 titles) ---> tree (1963 titles)


woman-crying (298 titles)  ---> crying-woman (2080 titles)

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4 years ago

Hi keyword_expert -

Just following up on these older requests, the keywords updates have been made.

Cheers!

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4 years ago

Just wondering ... what is the keyword "character" or "characters" supposed to mean? Is there some specialized use of the word that I'm not picking up on?

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@gromit82 

I was wondering the same thing. I was a bit reluctant to even recommend keeping the "character" / "characters" keywords because they are so vague as to be practically useless. But at least for now they should be merged/consolidated.

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@gromit82 

p.s. I looked into it a little further, and I fail to perceive any value in both the "character" and "characters" keywords. Perhaps they should simply be deleted. 

A substantial portion of the "character" keywords were added to titles featuring female professional wrestling, as this keyword search shows

Also, many of those titles also have the keyword "development," perhaps as in "character development?"

As for the other instances of "character" and "characters," these seem to be random instances of people adding these keywords because they couldn't think of anything better. 

Unless someone can come up with a good reason to keep these two keywords, I will probably recommend they simply be deleted and blocked from the system for the future. 

And if someone makes a case for keeping "character," then at a minimum "characters" should be merged into "character."

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@gromit82 

I have posted a new thread that, in part, focuses on the "character" keywords. I recommend the deletion of these keywords.

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@gromit82​ I tried to mark your answer as the "Accepted Answer," but for some reason the sprinklr system will not allow me to do this. So I had to "accept" my own answer instead. 

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4 years ago

@Michelle 

I just realized that I apparently never referred this keyword list to IMDb staff. It does look like some of the keyword mergers have already been taken care of.

I have now converted this post from an "idea" post to a "problem" post. Below I will paste the keywords that still need to be merged.

book-seller (53 titles)   ---> bookseller (19 titles)


book-shelf (55 titles)  ---> bookshelf (107 titles)


book-store (114 titles)  ---> bookstore (611 titles)


books (130 titles)  ---> book (4118 titles)

cars (136 titles) ---> car (6663 titles)


curtains (52 titles)  ---> curtain (241 titles)


drug-store (66 titles)  ---> drugstore (276 titles)


face-wound (55 titles)  ---> facial-wound (43 titles)

jewellery (58 titles)  ---> jewelry (812 titles)


labour (68 titles)  ---> labor (265 titles)


man-crying (358 titles)  ---> crying-man (1381 titles)


rocks (54 titles)  ---> rock (1178 titles)


school-child (88 titles)  ---> schoolchild (12 titles)

school-girl-costume (68 titles)  --->  schoolgirl-costume (192 titles)


ship-building (55 titles)  ---> shipbuilding (30 titles)


swimming-suit (18 titles)  ---> swim-suit (29 titles)   ---> swimsuit (920 titles)


trees (206 titles) ---> tree (1963 titles)


woman-crying (298 titles)  ---> crying-woman (2080 titles)

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4 years ago

Shouldn't the "bathing suit" keywords all be changed to "swimsuit"?