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Standalone names shouldn't be keywords
The keywords guide (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5?ref_=helpms_helpart_inli...#) states that standalone names shouldn't be keywords. However, even most of the examples given in the guide (marilyn-monroe, tony-blair, tom-cruise, albert-einstein) are currently all keywords. Because they probably shouldn't be deleted outright but instead be merged into a more proper keyword (for example a reference-to-keyword), I've listed some standalone names here for contributors who want to try and fix this mess. (if this proves useful, I'll add more.)
For staffers: Is it possible to have a block for the names mentioned below so that a red warning will appear whenever someone tries to enter these as a keyword? That way, these misguided contributors can be pointed toward the guide and create a more suitable keyword.
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolf-hitler (currently attached to 61 titles)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolph-hitler (12)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=albert-einstein (51)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alfred-hitchcock (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alyssa-milano (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack (9)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack-obama (43)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=benito-mussolini (28)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=bill-clinton (39)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=boris-yeltsin (4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=brad-pitt (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=carl-gustaf-emil-mannerheim (19)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=condoleezza-rice (37)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czar-nicholas-ii-of-russia (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czarina-alexandra-of-russia (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=david-lynch (28)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=dick-cheney (15)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=donald-trump (191 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis (134 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis-presley (211 !!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-bush (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-w.-bush (65)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hillary-clinton (63)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitchcock (23)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitler (346 !!!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=james-dean (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=john-lennon (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=josef-stalin (95)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=lenin (52)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=leon-trotsky (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=marilyn-monroe (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mikhail-gorbachev (16)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mussolini (38)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=obama (13)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=ringo-starr (2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=simone-de-beauvoir (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stalin (92)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stanley-kubrick (24)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stephen-king (29)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=steven-spielberg (1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tom-cruise (4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tony-blair (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=terry-gilliam (6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vladimir-lenin (38)
For staffers: Is it possible to have a block for the names mentioned below so that a red warning will appear whenever someone tries to enter these as a keyword? That way, these misguided contributors can be pointed toward the guide and create a more suitable keyword.
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolf-hitler (currently attached to 61 titles)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolph-hitler (12)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=albert-einstein (51)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alfred-hitchcock (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alyssa-milano (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack (9)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack-obama (43)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=benito-mussolini (28)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=bill-clinton (39)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=boris-yeltsin (4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=brad-pitt (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=carl-gustaf-emil-mannerheim (19)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=condoleezza-rice (37)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czar-nicholas-ii-of-russia (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czarina-alexandra-of-russia (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=david-lynch (28)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=dick-cheney (15)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=donald-trump (191 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis (134 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis-presley (211 !!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-bush (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-w.-bush (65)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hillary-clinton (63)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitchcock (23)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitler (346 !!!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=james-dean (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=john-lennon (8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=josef-stalin (95)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=lenin (52)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=leon-trotsky (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=marilyn-monroe (22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mikhail-gorbachev (16)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mussolini (38)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=obama (13)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=ringo-starr (2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=simone-de-beauvoir (7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stalin (92)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stanley-kubrick (24)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stephen-king (29)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=steven-spielberg (1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tom-cruise (4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tony-blair (5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=terry-gilliam (6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vladimir-lenin (38)
Marco
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https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolph-hitler
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=aleksandr-dovzhenko
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alma-reville
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=arseniy-tarkovsky
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=arthur-freed
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=charles-dickens
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=chomsky
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=dovzhenko
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=lars-von-trier
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vsevolod-pudovkin
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=william-shakespeare
Hopefully, this list will only get longer in the future!
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Marco
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A little update since I last did one in May 2020:
These former standalone names are blocked and don't have any titles attached to them:
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=donald-trump
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=william-shakespeare
These former standalone names currently don't have any titles attached to them:
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=adolph-hitler
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=aleksandr-dovzhenko
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alma-reville
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=arseniy-tarkovsky
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=arthur-freed
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack-obama (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=benazir-bhutto (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=bill-clinton (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=charles-dickens
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=chelsea-clinton (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=chomsky
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=clarence-darrow (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=donald-trump (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=dovzhenko
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-bush (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-w.-bush (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=lars-von-trier
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mick-jagger (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=sergei-eisenstein (new to this list)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vsevolod-pudovkin
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=william-shakespeare
(edited)
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Marco
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These standalone names currently DO have 1 or more titles attached to them (last time I checked was in May 2020).
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=albert-einstein (51 > 31 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 24 > 27)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=albert-schweitzer (2 > 2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alfred-hitchcock (7 > 4 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=alyssa-milano (8 > 8 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=andy-warhol (25 > 20)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=barack (9 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=benito-mussolini (28 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 27)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=boris-yeltsin (4 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 >3 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=brad-pitt (5 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=buster-keaton (18 > 18 > 8 ! > 7 > 7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=buzz-aldrin (12 > 8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=carl-gustaf-emil-mannerheim (19 > 7 > 7 > 7 > 7 > 7 > 7 > 7 > 7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=charles-darwin (43 > 43 > 44 > 45 > 19 !!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=colin-powell (2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=condoleezza-rice (37 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 11)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czar-nicholas-ii-of-russia (22 > 20 > 19 > 18 > 18 > 19 > 19 > 19 > 20)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=czarina-alexandra-of-russia (8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=david-bowie (18 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 12)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=david-lynch (28 > 21 > 22 > 22 > 22 > 22 > 22 > 23 > 26)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=denise-lewis (1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=dick-cheney (15 > 7 > 7 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 7 > 7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=eisenstein (9 > 8 > 7 > 7 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elton-john (5 > 5 > 5 > 6 > 6 > 2! > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis (134 ! > 118 ! > 118 ! > 118! > 44!! > 45 > 46 > 46 > 48)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=elvis-presley (211 !! > 169 ! > 171 ! > 172! > 169 > 169 > 170 > 169 > 172)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=ezra-taft-benson (4 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=george-orwell (15 > 4 ! > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 5 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hal-roach (8 > 8 > 7 > 7 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hillary-clinton (63 > 45 > 46 > 46 > 46 > 44 > 44 > 45 > 47)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitchcock (23 > 21 > 17 > 17 > 17 > 16 > 21 > 23 > 23)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=hitler (346 !!! > 341 !!! > 257 ! > 259! > 258 > 258 > 259 > 259 > 103 !!!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=h-l-mencken (1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=james-dean (5 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=jane-austen (64 > 3 !!! > 3 > 3 > 6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=janis-joplin (8 > 7)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=jimi-hendrix (9 > 11)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=jim-morrison (4 > 6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=john-lennon (8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 1! > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=johnny-depp (5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 6 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=josef-stalin (95 > 87 > 86 > 84 > 84 > 84 > 84 > 85 > 83)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=joseph-smith (27 > 27 > 27 > 27 > 7 !!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=karl-marx (23 > 23 > 23 > 23 > 23 > 24 > 24)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=lenin (52 > 49 > 29 ! > 28 > 28 > 29 > 29 > 29 > 34)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=leon-trotsky (7 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=marie-antoinette (25 > 14 !!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=marilyn-monroe (22 > 16 > 16 > 16 > 16 > 17 > 17 > 19 > 22)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=marvin-gaye (3 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=michael-jackson (21 > 22 > 21 > 21 > 17 > 23)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mick-jagger (2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 4 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mikhail-gorbachev (16 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 8 > 11)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mussolini (38 > 32 > 30 > 30 > 30 > 30 > 30 > 30 > 24)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=nancy-reagan (3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=neil-armstrong (22 > 17)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=noam-chomsky (7 > 1! > 1 > 1 > 1 > 6 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=obama (13 > 8 > 9 > 9 > 9 > 9 > 9 > 8 > 11)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=prince-charles (26 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 24 > 21)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=princess-diana (62 > 62 > 62 > 62 > 62 > 47! > 50)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=ringo-starr (2 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=sergei-eisenstein (5 > 3 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=shakespeare (32 > 11 ! > 12 > 13 > 14 > 15 > 21! > 36 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=simone-de-beauvoir (7 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 6 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stalin (92 > 82 > 80 > 80 > 75 > 59 ! > 60 > 61 > 75!)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stanley-kubrick (24 > 13 > 13 > 13 > 13 > 14 > 15 > 14 > 14)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=stephen-king (29 > 27 > 26 > 26 > 26 > 27 > 27 > 9 !! > 15)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=steven-spielberg (1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tarkovsky (14 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 10 > 10 > 10 > 10)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=terry-gilliam (6 > 4 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 5)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=the-beatles (181 > 181 > 181 > 181 > 182 > 184 > 199)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=the-rolling-stones (11 > 11 > 11 > 11 > 13 > 13 > 15)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tom-cruise (4 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=tony-blair (5 > 4 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 6 > 6 > 6)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=trump (74 > 78 > 61! > 61 > 61 > 62 > 76 !)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vladimir-lenin (38 > 15 > 14 > 3 ! > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=vladimir-putin (34 > 35 > 19 !! > 19 > 19 > 15)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=william-jennings-bryan (5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 1 !)
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keyword_expert
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2 years ago
I have included some of the more prevalent keywords from this thread, including "hitler," "the-beatles," "marilyn-monroe," "the-rolling-stones," "lenin," "mussolini," and others, on these lists of duplicate keywords for mass action by IMDb staff. Once these keywords are set up for auto-conversion, they cannot be recreated again in the future, which will solve the problem permanently.
Duplicate Keywords - List #24 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) (real life people keywords)
Duplicate Keywords - List #53 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) (real-life people keywords pt. 2)
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