Improper genre keywords - "auditing" help needed from the community

Additional genre keywords that have been audited, deleted, and blocked:

best-short-horror-films
children's

children's-program 
children's-programing

children's-programme

children's-programming

children's-series 

childrens-show
children's-television 
childrens'-television
children's-television-show

children's-tv-show 

for-kids

historic

horror-movies

kids-show

kids-television-show

kids-tv

kids-tv-show 

kids-video

movies-short

musica
news-show

reality-television

scienceficton

science-fiction-film 

science-fiction-tv 

short-video

short-video-series

television-talk-show

true-life-story

video-short

@Pencho15​ Thank you for your efforts.

I just got a chance to use two interesting keywords on this episode of "The X-Files."

@keyword_expert​ Historic is ready to go.

@Pencho15​ Awesome, Pencho!  And I just finished "television-talk-show." I will ask for both of them to be deleted and blocked.

@Pencho15​ Thank you. I added several additional Family genre keywords to the list at the top of the post. I have also made a fair amount of progress in "auditing" these keywrods.

Here are some good keywords for use on titles that don't actually fit the Family genre but rather include a children's show within the plot:

watching-a-children's-tv-show

children's-tv-show-as-subject

fictional-children's-tv-show

@Pencho15​ Thank you for that. I will make sure it gets deleted and blocked.

@Pencho15​

That is a good idea. I think "english-history" works well.

Here are some other good keywords for that episode. In fact, all of these could be used:

history-episode (38 titles)

biography-episode (110 titles)

european-history (273 titles)

historical-figure (116 titles)

historical-event (763 titles)

It is done, altought the keyword will be hard to audit. It is included in many Indian and Chinese silent films that don't even have a plot.

@Pencho15​ You are right that the keyword "historical" is hard to audit. I have managed to get the number of titles down from 400  (plus new titles added along the way) down to 320 by picking some of the low-hanging fruit. It will become even harder to audit this keyword as it progresses. 

One thing I have learned for this keyword is it's often as easy as converting "historical" to either "period-piece" or "historical-fiction" (or both).

I found this helpful definition of "period piece":

"a period piece specifically refers to a film, TV series, or miniseries that is set during an earlier time."

So that will often come up for fictional titles that currently have the "historical" keyword.

Some drama-specific similar keywords are "period-drama" and "historical-drama" (although those two keywords are probably synonyms/duplicates). 

I will keep working on the "historical" keyword in my spare time. Thanks for any help you can provide.

@Pencho15 

I have managed to audit the "historical" keyword from where it started (around 400 titles) down to 200 titles.

The auditing will be even more difficult and time-consuming from here.

As you have noted, this keyword was applied to many Chinese films from nearly 100 years ago with no plot summaries, making it pretty difficult to understand the context of each film. And there are even more undefined Indian films from that era with the "historical" keyword.

Fortunately, for the Indian films, I found a website that helps research some of these older films. In many cases, this website has the only plot summaries I can find of these older Indian titles. https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/

@keyword_expert​ What a fantastic page, I'll like for something similar for the Chinese films. There might be in their language but who knows.

@Pencho15​ Good work. 

Here is another one:

children's-television-show

Some relevant keywords I have been using on some of these titles:

family-filmmaking (36 titles)

tv-show-within-a-tv-show (70 titles)

fictional-tv-show (217 titles)

fictional-tv-show-host (1 title)

fictional-children's-tv-show (14 titles)

fictional-children's-tv-show-host (3 titles)

fictional-children's-show-host (2 titles)

children's-show-host (10 titles)

children's-game-show (16 titles

children's-television-show-host (21 titles)

@keyword_expert​ I got to watch an entire YouTube short series and a spoof on some 80s cartoons while auditing, always a chance to discover something new.

@Pencho15​ Thank you! I will add it to the pending list of "to be blocked" keywords here. 

@Bethanny​ Thank you for asking.

For this particular thread, I think the contributors have it covered. Long ago, @bradley_kent convinced me that these kinds of keywords should be "audited" before any type of IMDb staff action, so I have been faithful to that process ever since. The best example is when a genre is expressed in a keyword rather than a genre assigned to that title, which requires adding the correct genre to the title before the keyword is deleted.

Lately, this type of work been been done mainly by myself and @Pencho15.  In the past, @bradley_kent did a lot of auditing and editing of these kinds of keywords, but lately he seems to have moved on to other projects.

Anyway, I would appreciate it if staff could keep the thread open for the contributors to update each other with progress as it is made, and to discuss new genre keywords that we might spot from time to time. If/when the thread becomes too cluttered, we might start up a new thread, but I don't think we're quite ready for that.

@keyword_expert​ No problem! We will keep it as "In progress"

I would gladly return to working on this major keyword/genre problem, but have been discouraged by the staff's blocking of the "new" subgenre keywords.  They can be added, but are blocked from being corrected or deleted.

@bradley_kent​ Fair enough. We all set our own priorities. If you do ever want to help out again, I know I personally would welcome you back. Frankly, you make this type of volunteer work look easy. (It is not easy.) And we can definitely use the help, precisely because it is not easy.