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Duplicate Keywords - List #50 (developmental disability keywords) (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion)
Here is the next installment of my lists of proposed keywords for permanent merger and auto-conversion.
IMDb has recently changed its display format for keyword search results. The changes will hamper my ability to post these lists in the familiar format as shown below. For the time being, I am still able to access the old version of the keyword search results by logging out of my IMDb account. In anticipation of losing the old version forever, I hope to post several lists this weekend. So as not to overwhelm anyone, I will double the standard 14-day comment period to 28 days, to allow the community sufficient time to review this list before it is finalized.
I am posting this list for fellow contributors to review first and raise any objections or questions. I will wait at least 28 days before changing this post to a "problem" post and asking IMDb staff to make the proposed changes.
The mergers and auto-conversions should be made in the direction of the arrows.
Duplicate Keywords Proposed for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion
autistic (53 titles) --> autism (733 titles)
autistic-character (9 titles) --> autistic-person (1 title)
developmentally-disabled (8 titles) --> developmentally-challenged (6 titles) --> developmental-disability (29 titles)
developmentally-disabled-person (15 titles) --> person-with-a-developmental-disability (1 title)
learning-difficulties (9 titles) --> learning-disability (61 titles)
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keyword_expert
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MDb staff:
Now that the comment period on this list of keywords has passed, the list is ready for action. I will copy and paste the list below with the numbers of titles removed to facilitate the mergers and auto-conversions.
Duplicate Keywords Proposed for Permanent Merging and Auto-Conversion
autistic --> autism
autistic-character --> autistic-person
developmentally-disabled --> developmentally-challenged --> developmental-disability
developmentally-disabled-person --> person-with-a-developmental-disability
learning-difficulties --> learning-disability
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Michelle
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Hi @keyword_expert -
We deeply appreciate your passion and all the efforts you have made over the last few years to help streamline keyword consistency on the site (it has been an admirable push).
Concerning these outstanding requests, I regret that due to resource constraints we can no longer process these manual requests. When you observe inconsistencies you are welcome to submit the applicable keyword corrections/deletions through our contribution form which will be reviewed and handled directly by our editors; however, going forward within the community our staff will only be able to investigate and take action on instances where there are inappropriate and/or violating keywords observed.
I understand that this isn’t an ideal compromise to the keyword quality issues you are trying to help fix on the site, however, until we have an established mechanism in place for reporting and actioning these bulk keyword clean-ups we are unable to handle them further.
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phillip
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Yes there has been some progress made but another thing that really should be done is figuring out (pretty easy) who is contributing most of these stuff because it's pretty obviously they are just nuts about getting lines. Maybe a max number of keywords on older films could help. The Last of the Mohicans (1992) used to have around 130 keywords now it a contributor added 121 more to it which should raise red flags about quality and motive. This list came from The Charge at Feather River. There was actually no blonde Indian nor was there anything in the story about her being blonde or it mattering. Actually probably 70% of the keywords attached had nothing to do with the story.
or in the case in last of the Mohicans you have all of these subgenres now on top of the bloated genres and the fact that the characters have oily skin apparently and they sweated so the real keywords and plot devices get diluted by excessive line padding.
Now the same person is adding actor combinations. Just type in Niven into the keyword box just as an example and you now get this. Under that mindset you could do it to any actor working with any other actor.
So part of the thing should be not only fixing the redundancy but also figuring out the cause because fixing the symptoms really don't do anything if the cause is still there.
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