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The “romantic-comedy” and “romcom" and "rom com" keywords should be deleted, with Romance and Comedy as genres instead.

The guideline: Repeating genres: For example, we have the genres Romance and Drama so you can submit these as genres to the title rather than submitting the keyword romantic-drama. Does not the same apply to Romantic Comedies? Why is this an exception, if it is? With advance title search, one can also get a list of Romantic Comedies, as well as Romantic Dramas, or both. If a title has both Romance and Comedy as genres, is it not, logically, a Romantic Comedy? Recent example of this nonsense, although there have been many such examples in previous submissions: 250902-215721-392000 Track Contribution 2025-09-02 21:57:21 Not Another Teen Movie (2001) Keywords - 167 items corrected, 27 items deleted Genres - 1 item added

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29 days ago

Hi bradley_kent- Thank you for posting the submission reference number! Further reviewing, I can see that this was already approved. If the titles have these genres, yes it will also apply not duplicating them on the keywords just as the example of romantic-drama. Cheers!

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This seems like one hand at IMDb not knowing what the other is doing. Romantic comedy was included as an Interest. It requires the romantic-comedy subgenre keyword and the Romance genre. The examples given for romantic-comedy in the keyword guidelines, When Harry Met Sally and While You Were Sleeping, both have Romance and Comedy as genres.

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The "interest” should refer to the genres, NOT the unnecessary and duplicitous subgenre keyword, which just combines two genres. Re Advance Title Search, there are currently 270,582 rifles with both Comedy and Romance as genres. That’s quite an “interest."

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IMDb has the organizational outline for excellent genre/subgenre, and series/episode keyword distinctions, BUT that outline is NOT being followed since accurate corrections and additions are not being accepted. GUIDELINE: Repeating genres: For example, we have the genres Romance and Drama so you can submit these as genres to the title rather than submitting the keyword romantic-drama. The “romantic-comedy” subgenre keyword should be deleted in favor of a title having both Romance and Comedy as genres. Any keyword that combines two genres should be deleted in favor of recording those two genres AS genres, I.e, “crime-drama” should be deleted in favor of Crime ad Drama as genres. (Warning: Don’t do a “scorched earth” delete since these titles should be audited to make sure that they have the correct genres.) A keyword that combines two genres is an unnecessary duplication. Any keyword that has a genre as a addendum (the last word in the keyword being a genre) should automatically be a subgenre. It is illogical to have a subgenre WITHOUT also having that genre, GUIDELINE: Episode-specific keywords submitted to the TV series page: 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.Episode-specific keywords submitted to the TV series page: 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. I have submitted over 800 contributions that delete Incorrect Subgeres at the episode level and add correct genes at the series level, but they are not being honored. All I am asking is for logical consistency. I hope that is possible. What is there to do to get my contributions accepted? Am I being barred from making genre contributions? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/the-genresubgenre-situation/68ccd8b1d6b94e4d33e7a5b4 Title : The genre/subgenre situation

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It's too much for the Staff to vet, lol. They should just make it so your edits are automatically accepted; and every month take a 5% sample to be reviewed by staff to ensure that you're doing everything okay.

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So... why are you not honoring the deletiion of subgenres at the episode level that already exist at the series level?