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Why is "TV Mini-series" an allowed keyword?

Miniseries is already a property in itself. Yet 44,000 "TV miniseries" are tagged as "TV mini-series".

Am I missing something?

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Skavau: tv-mini-series is not only an allowed keyword, it is a special keyword as indicated at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5# :

tv-mini-series Affects the display of a title; it will say 'TV miniseries' instead of 'TV series' at the top of the page.

Without the keyword tv-mini-series, the IMDb software would have no way of recognizing which titles are TV miniseries. If that keyword were deleted from a title, the software would classify the title as a regular TV series, not a miniseries.

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@gromit82​ Oh, I didn't know that is how miniseries were determined. I thought people just edited the type elsewhere.

Fair enough.