# Allow editing PM after creating it to make it a warning
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-editing-pm-after-creating-it-to-make-it-a-warning/381142
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** moderation, personal-messages
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-editing-pm-after-creating-it-to-make-it-a-warning/381142 "2025-09-01T11:20:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-editing-pm-after-creating-it-to-make-it-a-warning/381142/1 "2025-09-01T11:20:38Z")
I had a PM exchange with someone today on meta and after the fact would like that PM to be registered as a warning, with user note and indicator on user card and profile for future travellers. I was not sure yet when I started the PM whether a warning was warranted, but as the exchange unfolded it became clear it was warning worthy.
Unfortunately it appears to only be possible to select the tickbox to make a PM a warning when initially creating the PM. When editing the OP you cannot make it a warning.
I’m sure there are cases too when a warning PM is created but later the moderator finds out it should not have been a warning. So the ability to toggle the tickbox when editing would be helpful.
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-editing-pm-after-creating-it-to-make-it-a-warning/381142/2 "2025-09-01T11:25:34Z")
I have had this happen more than once, and wish I had thought to have suggested this change.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-editing-pm-after-creating-it-to-make-it-a-warning/381142/3 "2026-02-26T21:59:11Z")
I see this has come up previously:
> [@Proposal: Undo Official Warning](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposal-undo-official-warning/291226):
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> Hi all, I’d like something like this: [Undo an Official Warning](https://meta.discourse.org/t/undo-an-official-warning/103655) But from the front end. Perhaps the checkbox that is used to designate a PM as a warning, can be exposed to an administrator when they edit the warning PM in question, and it could just be a matter of undoing the check.