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IMDb Staff: Please permanently ban these keywords

The following keywords, listed in several categories, should be banned. Subjective Sexualization Keywords The following keywords all involve the subjective sexualization of women or girls. Most of them appear to have been created by the same user. They have no place on IMDb and should all be perm

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Duplicate Keywords - List #28 (nudity keywords pt. 2) (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion)

Here is the next installment of my lists of proposed keywords for permanent merger and auto-conversion. I am posting this for fellow contributors to review first and raise any objections or questions. I will wait at least seven days before changing this post to a "problem" post and asking IMDb s

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Keywords - Category?

Hi. I rarely add any keywords other than the "special" ones. With music videos, you need to add the "music-video" keyword. Now there are some "Category" options which are a bit confusing to me. Which one I have to choose with "music-video"? Maybe this info could be added to the "music video" guid

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Keywords Proposed for Merging

I have been compiling lists of keywords that should be merged by IMDb staff. I am now ready to start posting many of these keywords, and I will focus this first list on the least controversial proposals--in other words, the keywords that I expect there will be no disagreement about whether to merge,

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"One's-self" keywords

There are some keywords which include the phrase "one's-self", such as:looking-at-one's-self-in-a-mirror (708 titles)talking-to-one's-self-in-a-mirror (106 titles)talking-to-one's-self (81 titles)There seems to be little justification for this spelling, so isn't "oneself" better?There is a

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superfluous/overboard with keywords

I was looking at the keywords for the movie Asteroid City and came across a whole slew of double ups and superfluous keywords: 1950s, year 1955, timeframe 1950's, Stargazer, Desert, Arizona Desert, fake cactus (spelling mistakes included) and then it has really gone overboard with: female full

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Error message (glitch) when adding keywords - "No category selected. Keywords require a category."

I am getting this error message when trying to add keywords to titles: No category selected.Keywords require a category. I have never seen this error message before. It appears to be a glitch.

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Why? Keywords for TV Series Problem Continues

The Guideline is very clear:Keywords submitted to the TV series page should be relevant to and describe the entire series. Keywords that are specific to a particular episode should be added to that episode only.Yet, keywords are still accepted at the episode level that belong ONLY at the series leve

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Timeframe year keywords

Some contributors add years as keywords as pure numbers (2023) while there is a norm of using the form year-2023 to distinguish them from other things that aren't years. Both forms are apparently accepted in the plot timeframe category of keywords, although the guidelines do not mention single years

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Duplicate Keywords - List #34 (Proposals for Permanent Merger and Auto-Conversion) (physical disability keywords)

Here is the next installment of my lists of proposed keywords for permanent merger and auto-conversion. I am posting this for fellow contributors to review first and raise any objections or questions. I will wait at least 14 days before changing this post to a "problem" post and asking IMDb staff

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A problem with an user who is deleting keywords without reason

Hi i'm using IMDB for some months but Im new on the forum, and I have a problem with a guy who is deleting keywords related to female nudity without no reason The keywords are this: Female-nudity (there was 40700 titles 2 days ago and now its on 40300) Female-rear-nudity( there was 22010 titles 2

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A few random keywords to block and delete ("streaming," "genre," "film-directed-by," "uttar-kumar")

The following keywords should be mass-deleted and blocked from the system. These keywords are similar to the "pay-video" keywords that were previously deleted. These should be deleted as well: streaming (66 titles) video-on-demand (18 titles) pay-per-view (146 titles) paid-viewing

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IMDb Staff: Please block and delete these keywords ("factual," "entertainment," and "bitch" keywords)

Dear IMDb staff: Here are a few more random keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. Poorly Formatted Keywords to Delete and Block factual-entertainment (6 titles) ku-klux-klan-komedy (17 titles) no-female-character (33 titles) no-male-character (

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Picking keywords for similar movies

I wish there was a feature where when you go on the keywords that belong to a movie, you can pick multiple ones you like that will link you to similar movies instead of being only able to click just one.

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Keywords - Are verbs that end in "ing" or in "s" preferred?

A question for the community: When adding keywords describing an action that occurs in the film, are verbs ending in "ing" or in "s" preferred? For example, consider the keywords "woman-vomiting" and "woman-vomits." These two keywords describe the exact same thing. Yet they are two separate keywo

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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 m

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Suggestion: Automatically remove keywords when two-thirds of their votes are "not-relevant"

The specifics on how this works could be up for debate, but currently the only way keywords get removed is via users manually putting them through a removal process. The problem here is that very few people seem to do this and we end up with many releases having a mass of inaccurate or duplicate key

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@Skavau​ Well in that case, it will depend on the specific keyword involved. The current guidelines include a bunch of "accepted values" for subgenre keywords. Most of them are objective, like "nature-documentary," "basketball-sport," "werewolf-ho

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Subgenres should not be types of Keywords

A year ago I posted this thread. In it, I argued that IMDB should transition to an upvote/downvote system of applying keywords for titles. It was mostly disliked and rejected by commentors there for fear that factual keywords would be voted off of profiles (a possibility, albeit under that system an

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Keywords to merge and redirect

It seems there are more than a few keywords for a marriage proposal on bended knee (there is one for bended knees which I have actually never seen!) proposal-on-bended-knee --> marriage-proposal-on-one's-knees --> marriage-proposal-on-knees --> marriage-proposal-on-bended-knee --> m

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IMDb Staff: Please block and delete these keywords

Dear IMDb staff: Here are a few more random keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. All keywords have been fully "audited." Subjective Keywords to Delete and Block best-hindi-film (1 title) box-office-bomb (4 titles) box-office-success (2 titles) campy-ac

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