Why is “western-music” being deleted as a keyword?

I figured this matter boiled down to disambiguation concerns.

No, it has developed into the term “country-western-music,” which may be the best keyword.  Instead of deleting “western-music,” can IMDb make a mass change to “country-western-music”?

@bradley_kent​ 

The music industry of the mid-20th century grouped the two genres together under the banner of country and western music, later amalgamated into the modern name, country music.

I don't think they are accepting merge requests currently. If you do pursue it, you may have to do some auditing. For example, does the keyword refer to country and western music or to music of European origin in this title?

20th Century Greats

I realize that mergers of keywords are apparently not currently being accepted, BUT I am trying to get the staff to decide their preference.  (By the way, I did not say that “western-music” is currently a subgenre, but "even possibly a yet unacknowledged Music subgenre.”)

There’s an argument for “country-music” since that is the Grammy Awards category.

I still tend to think that “country-western-music” best represents this kind of music.

(When it comes to definitions, Wikipedia wins over Britannica since IMDb has often stated that American -- meaning the U.S. -- spellings are preferred at IMDb over British ones. IMDb may be physically located in England, BUT its ownership and most usage apparently reside in the U.S. Amazon owns IMDb.)  

Just looking for some objective leadership and decisiveness from the staff.

Hi @bradley_kent​ -

I'm just circling back here to see if there is still any outstanding issues with adding these music keywords to the site?  I'm not an expert in this genre of music, though my understanding is that Western music is a form of country music.

What about American country music?

Hi @jeorj_euler​ -

I cannot attest to being an expert here, though my understanding is that American country and Western references the same type of music.  If this is the case, we would prefer to use to most common term to reference the music type.