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Should this keyword even exist?
Keywords are supposed to be singular, so should a keyword like based-on-real-people even exist? Shouldn't it be merged and redirected to based-on-real-person?
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The based-on-real-people keyword currently has 42 titles assigned to it. Even if this keyword was merged in response to this post, it was apparently not set up for auto-conversion when people try to use it in the future.
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In answer to the question posed by @adrian in the subject heading of this post, I believe it is okay for the keyword based-on-real-people to exist.
based-on-real-people is arguably not a true plural keyword, because it is not a noun in the first place. Rather, it is more like a compound adjective.
In this sense, based-on-real-people is much like the keywords below, all of which have the word "people" in them, and all of which are probably okay.
based-on-real-people (184 titles)
seeing-dead-people (125 titles)
people-watching (11 titles)
jews-as-a-people (14 titles)
sex-in-front-of-people (6 titles)
In short, it can be okay to have a plural word within a keyword (and sometimes even plural nouns are acceptable as keywords, for example keywords like "shoes" and "eyes" and "wings" and "gloves").
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