Random System or human denials of keyword deletions that make no sense

@keyword_expert​ Yet, paradoxically... if you *convert* any keyword it often does it instantly without a fuss - despite it essentially being the same as deletion. And that actually seems include 'protected' words.

@Michelle​

Hi Skavau-

The request for this keywords deletions have been resubmitted on your behalf and approved.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ I have more as well... problem is, that's fine and thank you.. but am I going to have to go through this every time a keyword has "history" or "timeframe" or another protected word in the title?

There are a lot of errors on those tags.

Hi Skavau- 

There should not be any more problems as this was more of a system issue than an error while processing, but please do let me know if there are any more problems.

Cheers!

@keyword_expert​ 

The workaround solution is to correct false "timeframe-" keywords to a more applicable "timeframe-" keyword.

I have a correction like this recently that was approved, but when I checked the page the old keyword was still there along with the new one.

@Peter_pbn​ Wow! Same thing happened to a recent correction of mine: both keywords currently appear on the keyword page, about 48 hours after my contribution was "approved."

Contribution #220728-160230-197000 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5610554/keywords

This confirms that "timeframe-" keywords enjoy super-protection. I have never seen anything like this with any other type of keyword.

@Bethanny

@Michelle 
I think it's time for IMDb staff to consider undoing the protections for "timeframe-" keywords. I understand how you wanted to protect these keywords as they were being developed system-wide, but at this point the special protection of these keywords is only resulting in bad data persisting in the system.

Hi @Peter_pbn​ -

Thanks for posting these examples, these Timeframe keywords have now been removed.

Cheers!

Corrected timeframe-21th-century to timeframe-21st-century on one title last week. For a short time the page displayed both versions, but it was updated eventually.

@keyword_expert​ Hi! It actually is not protected anymore, checking on your submission it was not accepted in error, nothing to do with the protection they used to have, I resubmitted on your behalf and approved.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ There must be at least some kind of "protection" on the timeframe keywords -- enough to trigger manual review by staff. Normally, the vast majority of keyword deletions and edits are automatically approved within 5 minutes, without any staff review. It seems that timeframe keywords are still being handled differently. The next time I try to delete one, I will follow up in this thread.