Misuse of the Adult genre

@bradley_kent​ Are you referring to https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/consternating-contradictions-when-it-comes-to-imdbs-acceptance-or-rejection-of-other-genres-for-western-titles/63dfc9466cf9c9747c4d4a77 or another thread?  

Yes.  That’s it.

@bradley_kent​ Thanks for confirming.  I do see staff replies on that thread, but in any case I have flagged it as it should perhaps have had one more response.  

Personally I am not convinced that over-dosing a huge number of movies with Drama is the right answer, especially when genres are no longer sorted by importance and so Drama would appear before Western.  If anything, we have over-accepted Drama not under-accepted it. 

This is NOT a question of over-acceptance or under-acceptance, but of ACCURATE acceptance. At present, there is no logic, no consistency when it comes to genre acceptance or rejection. Instead, there is a “mishmash” of acceptance or rejection that has no predictable, discernible pattern.

How can Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) have both Drama and Western as genres, BUT Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) does not?  How can The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) have both genres, BUT The Undefeated (1969) does not?  How can one Charles Starrett b-western have both genres, but another, with a similar storyline and repetitive style and duplicate production elements, does not?  How can one title have both genres, while a remake that is almost a shot-by-shot recreation, does not?  (There are MANY other specific examples of this problem on my posts on this thread.)

As to the alphabetical listing of genres (which I think assists research), many Westerns also have Action, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical and War as genres, all which precede the word “Western.”  

My main concern is that genres, like keywords, like cast and crew credits, like almost ALL content on IMDb (with the exception of reviews and other platforms for “opinion”) should be an objective reporting of reality, of the facts, without subjectivity and personal viewpoints.  Content should be information, not editorial.

IF it takes two, three, four, five, six, etc. genres to accurately report the genres of a title, so be it.  But, how is it possible for a title to JUST be a Western, WITHOUT also being a Drama or Comedy or both?  To JUST be a Western, as a character in a Western might say,  is "darn near impossible."