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Keyword needs merging

"Wild-life"https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=wild-life&ref_=fn_al_kw_2needs merging with, and re-routing to:"Wildlife"https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=wildlife&ref_=fn_al_kw_1 Cheers!

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Keyword trash-movie

Is there a particular criteria for this, or is it just folks bad-mouthing films they don't like? Should it be eliminated?

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A few vague keywords that are ready to be merged and/or blocked (trump, roosevelt, washington, vancouver)

@Michelle I have "audited" the following four vague keywords, and they are now ready to to be merged and/or blocked. Each of these keywords are slightly different, so I will explain them one by one. 1. trump a. merge trump --> reference-to-donald-trump b. block trump The "trump" keyword is vague bec

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The keyword “life-story” = the Biography genre, just as the keyword “love-story” = the Romance genre

Why have these genre (and a few keyword) corrections, deletions and additions not been processed? 250731-185204-423000Track Contribution2025-07-31 18:52:04 Untitled Romantic Drama (????)Genres - 1 item added 250731-184958-662000Track Contribution2025-07-31 18:49:58 Raayani Kadhale (2025)Keywords - 1

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A few more subjective keywords that should be blocked

@Michelle Here are a few more subjective keywords that should be blocked per IMDb's keyword guidelines. bad (20 titles) bad-movie (30 titles) terrible (6 titles) awful (3 titles) good (19 titles) * scary (0 titles) scary-movie (3 titles) very-scary-movie (1 title) ** cute (256 titles) ** vibrant (10

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Keyword addition declined

#250806-133553-096000 Declined with reason "Does not meet contribution guidelines", but it does meet contribution guidelines.

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ATS: For TV Episodes with a Keyword, incorrectly includes all episodes of any SERIES that has the keyword.

GOOD: This refined Keyword Search correctly produces three results for TV episodes with the specified keyword. http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=obnoxious&mode=simple&title_type=tvEpisode GOOD: This Keyword Search correctly produces one result for a TV series where the same keyword is reco

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Spam & Useless Keywords that Should be Banned

I previously raised most of these keywords in an earlier "question" post. The consensus appears to be that these keywords should be banned. Accordingly, I propose that the following keywords should be deleted from the IMDb system and permabanned: Useless/Spam Keywords - Please Delete and Ban availab

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Keyword "Police-Officer" and Gender-Versions: multiple keywords with same meaning, hundreds of combinations

Data-Analysis: Main-Keyword: gender-neutral-versions: police-officer (6881 titles) police-officers (0) female-versions: female-police-officer (327 titles) female-police-officers (0) male-versions: male-police-officer (50 titles) male-police-officers (0) These are today's correct definitions and gend

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IMDb Staff: Some Keywords odds and ends

Dear IMDb staff, I have a few keyword items for your consideration. 1. Can you please delete and block this keyword from future use? raf (80 titles) The keyword "raf" is inherently vague, since it can mean either royal-air-force (177 titles) or red-army-faction (37 titles). I have fully audited the

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IMDb Staff: Please delete and block these keywords

Dear IMDb Staff: Here are a few more random keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. Subjective Keywords to Delete and Block The following two keywords may not appear at first glance to be subjective, but take a look at how they have been used. The first keyword has mostly been u

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Redundant/illogical keywords to be merged with existing correct keywords.

I am offering a few suggestions about merging two or more keywords together to avoid repetition and redundancy and also giving my reasons. #1. The keywords "bare-breasts" and "breasts" should be merged into simply "breasts" and "bare-breasts" be made entirely redundant. Reason: "Bare" breasts are no

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keywords

Sometimes there is this keyword in a movie : "Full frontal nudity", and sometimes : "Explicit nudity". What's the difference?

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What does the keyword "title-in-title" mean?

I'm baffled. 197 films have this keyword, including "Queen of the South", "Basic Instinct", "The Princess Bride". Is this supposed to mean the title is spoken during the film, or what? Should this be changed?

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What does this keyword mean?

reference-to-ali-metallian-ghaemi Is this some sore of research organization, a person, or what? Internet search shows that there are researchers with Ali Ghaemi as their names and that there is also some association with a CD called "The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation" by an artist called Kataklysm

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Why neo-noir is not a subgenre keyword?

By all logical means neo-noir is a subgenre, however respective keyword is indexed as "plot-detail".

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Keywords "cigarette" and "cigarette-smoking"

Someone is deleting the keyword cigarette and replacing it with cigarette-smoking again. It just happened to my submission of cigarette to The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (1962) only hours after it was accepted. The film has cigarettes in it, but no smoking. Not that there is any reason to delete the

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Three existing keywords declined for not meeting guidelines

I had three keywords in three different submissions declined with the reason "Does not meet contribution guidelines", despite the fact they are existing keywords (and I realize a couple may be controversial but they do exist.) First, in submission 210404-151050-738000, the keyword war was declined d

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Here's a proper name keyword curiosity

Try to submit "johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-character" as a keyword, and it is rejected and automatically changed to "johann-wolfgang-von-goecharacter." What is happening, and how does one get around this? Try with the title Goethe! (2010).

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References to films as keywords

In the Keywords submission guide at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5#, there is a guideline which I believe is incorrect, or at least misguided: Unacceptable keywords ... Repeating the title - For example adding shawshank-redemption as a keyword to the titl

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