# Allowing some topics titles to be duplicated
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-topics-titles-to-be-duplicated/98228
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [27 בספטמבר, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-topics-titles-to-be-duplicated/98228 "2018-09-27T17:04:08Z")
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### Author:  [@wreality](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wreality)
#### Post date: [27 בספטמבר, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-topics-titles-to-be-duplicated/98228/1 "2018-09-27T17:04:08Z")
This may be completely 100% niche and therefore not appropriate for a potential feature, but I thought I’d throw it out there and see.
The site setting to disallow duplicate topic titles is _great_, but we have a few topic titles that are likely and 100% ok to be duplicated. The example for us is requesting a training session for a tool (we run a makerspace). Users have started having to use topics like “Laser checkout request 2” etc in order to post their request.
I’ve disabled the site setting for now, but I like that it incentivizes descriptive topics (and prevents a bunch of topics that simply say “Help” or the like from cropping up.)
For now we’ll actively moderate and re-title topics if they’re not descriptive, but I thought I’d throw it out there to see if a) there’s an option I’m missing that would help or b) its a problem worth solving.
We could use a long running thread and just ask users to reply to it, so I suppose that would be an option too, but I’d rather not force users to go back and untrack the topic to not be notified of future replies on it.
From a UI standpoint, I don’t exactly have a suggestion for how it would work. A “whitelist” of duplicatable topic titles could easily get out of hand.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [27 בספטמבר, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-topics-titles-to-be-duplicated/98228/2 "2018-09-27T17:06:35Z")
> [@wreality](#):
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> The example for us is requesting a training session for a tool (we run a makerspace). Users have started having to use topics like “Laser checkout request 2” etc in order to post their request.
Why not have a single checkout topic, and people reply to it as they check out the laser? Or have a laser category and people create new topics there using their name or the date in the topic title?
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### Author:  [@wreality](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wreality)
#### Post date: [27 בספטמבר, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-topics-titles-to-be-duplicated/98228/3 "2018-09-27T17:09:27Z")
Its an idea, and that’s probably why we haven’t run into it before (we usually retitle topics once a session is scheduled with the date and time). In fact, this is probably the best option and why we haven’t seen this issue before. 🙂