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Saturday, March 19th, 2022 1:26 AM

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Please delete and then ban the "history-documentary" keyword for all titles...

that already have History and Documentary as genres.

This conversation has been merged. Please refer the main conversation:

Please delete and then ban the "biographical-documentary" keyword for all titles...

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3 years ago

IMDb Staff:

I am not sure why Mr. Kent is not not disclosing the full context here, since it has been pointed out to him many times over the past couple weeks, but it must be noted that the keyword "history-documentary" is on the new list of "accepted" subgenre keywords.

Therefore, I doubt staff will want to delete this keyword from any title to which it is relevant without further discussion about the subgenre keywords in general.

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3 years ago

I agree with Bradley's request but would like to amplify it to state that "history-documentary" also should be removed from the list of accepted subgenre keywords at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5#special.

Elsewhere on the same page, it says:

Unacceptable keywords

... Repeating genres - For example, we have the genres Romance and Drama so you can submit these as genres to the title rather than submitting the keyword romantic-drama.

By the same token, we have the genres History and Documentary so they ought to be submitted as genres to a title rather than encouraging the use of a keyword history-documentary.