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bradley_kent

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Instead of asking the administration to do this, why not do it yourself -- and do an audit while you are at it.  I did this one, and it didn't take much time at all.  A blanket, "scorched earth" merger would have made things even worse.  Of the 53 titles with the incorrect "wild-life" keyword, 49 were converted to "wildlife." The other four needed deleting since three referred to a subjective judgment that a character's life is wild, while one was for an episode of a TV series that has "wildlife" as a keyword at the series level.

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Rida

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5 years ago

Thanks for your message.
Please proceed and submit corrections to these keywords. You can do so by using the 'edit' function located at the bottom of each title page.
Thank you for keeping our data accurate and updated.

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bradley_kent

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5 years ago

Done before I made my comment.

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adrian

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Except this won't keep the keyword from coming back which an employee actually could do.

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keyword_expert

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@adrian​ 

Except this won't keep the keyword from coming back which an employee actually could do.

And indeed, "wild-life" is back as a keyword. Fortunately, it currently only applies to 3 titles. That relatively low number may be the results of contributor edits over the past couple of years. 

When an improper keyword has been applied to 50+ titles, it makes very little sense for contributors to spend their time manually deleting each instance of the keyword.  Instead, once it is determined what should happen with the keyword, IMDb staff can mass-delete the keyword and either block it or establish it for auto-conversion to a more appropriate keyword, depending on the circumstances. As Adrian points out, only IMDb staff have the power to do these things.

Here, it would have made more sense to block "wild-life" rather than auto-convert it to "wildlife," because as Mr. Kent points out, "wild-life" does not mean "wildlife" 100% of the time.

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