Duplicate Keywords - List #42 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) ("based-on-" keywords)

@rootsmusic​ 

A novel and a book are not the same thing. A book can have many different forms, one of which is a novel. Other types include biographies, anthologies, memoirs, and self-help books. Given that "novel" and "book" are not the same thing, keywords with these words are not duplicates and should not be merged into each other.

I would also not recommend adding "young-adult-novel" to a title based on a young adult novel. The keyword "young-adult-novel" should be reserved for titles where a young adult novel is a plot element. A good example is the title Young Adult (2011). In fact, I have just added "young-adult-novel" to that title. 

You do raise a good point about "inspired-by-." Seems like several of the "inspired-by-actual-events" type keywords should be merged into "loosely-based-on-a-true-story." I will adjust the list accordingly:

inspired-by-true-events (294 titles)  -->   inspired-by-real-events (29 titles)  -->   inspired-by-actual-events (14 titles)  -->  inspired-by-a-true-incident (2 titles)  -->  loosely-based-on-a-true-story (149 titles)

Ok, I agree that "book" is a nondescript keyword about the contents.  But I interpret keywords using "literary" as referring to classics and not to novels.  So those keywords shouldn't be merged with based-on-novel-or-book.

P.S. I suggest adding loosely-based-on-historical-events (43 titles) and inspired-by-a-historical-event (3 titles) .

@rootsmusic​

When in doubt, I consult the dictionary. Here, words like "literary" and "literature" usually refer to classics, but technically they could refer to pretty much anything published in written form. 

lit·er·ar·y 
1. pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, esp. those classed as literature: literary history.

lit·er·a·ture 
1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
2. the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.: the literature of England.
3. the writings dealing with a particular subject: the literature of ornithology.

Descriptions like inspired by are sometimes written on screen, in which case I think it makes sense to use that form in a keyword.

Peter wrote:

Descriptions like inspired by are sometimes written on screen, in which case I think it makes sense to use that form in a keyword.

@keyword_expert, I agree with Peter that this idea's direction of the arrows should be merging unpopular keywords into ever more popular ones.  I've also edited my original comment to separate books from novels in my keywords under "I suggest:"

P.S. I think fiction-based-on-facts is explicitly fictionalized, but based-on-fact isn't describing fiction.

@bradley_kent​ If someone has a problem with a title being described as "inspired by" a true story rather than "loosely based on" a true story, they can just delete the keyword.