Question about keywords and more keywords that probably should be merged

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I took the advice of a user to edit titles that have misspelled or duplicate keywords when there are a few titles to edit. However, this doesn't seem to get rid of the keyword. For example, the keyword "walter-reed-hospital" was used once and I changed it to the more frequently used "walter-reed-army-medical-center". However, the keyword "walter-reed-hospital" has not gone away though it now shows 0 titles using it. Will they eventually go away?




Now on to keywords that should probably be merged. These all refer to the same thing:

u.s.-mexico-border
u.s.-mexican-border
us-mexican-border
mexican-american-border 

mexican-border should probably be merged into this group as well, though it is non-specific (Mexico only has two borders and this being a US based site, it probably means the US/Mexico border and not the Mexico/Guatemala border which also has a keyword.)

Also, these are the same:

texas-mexico-border
mexico-texas-border 
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I took the advice of a user to edit titles that have misspelled or duplicate keywords when there are a few titles to edit. However, this doesn't seem to get rid of the keyword
Thanks, yes, this is the right approach.  We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team to fix the issue with them not disappearing completely when there are no instances left in IMDb. 
2018-01-18T03:39:19+00:00
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That's an okay approach if an alternate or misspelled keyword has a few entries. If you look at the keywords I listed, this would be a massive effort to individually change hundreds of titles. There has to be a better way for keyword merging than to post it here and hope it gets attention.
2018-01-22T16:20:13+00:00
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It looks like keywords are now being deleted when the number of titles on them reaches zero. Thank you.
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I went ahead and changed all of the u.s.-mexican-border, us-mexican-border and mexico-united-states-border into u.s.-mexico-border.

This now leaves three keywords with large numbers of titles associated with them. u.s.-mexico-border (currently 154 but soon to have more), mexican-american-border (139 titles) and mexican-border (196 titles) that are probably easier to handle by having a staff member merge them.
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