# Cannot delete an empty category with identical slug name

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-an-empty-category-with-identical-slug-name/28650>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-an-empty-category-with-identical-slug-name/28650 "2015-05-11T19:10:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![meke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@meke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meke)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-an-empty-category-with-identical-slug-name/28650/10 "2015-05-11T22:05:02Z")

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@Qasem_h, Good thought I could see how that might be a solution, it would be nice to not have to recreate the post though, but that is an option.

@riking:

**Request headers**

```
Host: community.arduboy.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
X-CSRF-Token: z+2Exf2bEus32p8TN6HCrmWXyHllYZO3GX/20E/rVIU=
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://community.arduboy.com/c/development
Cookie: _t=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxXX; _forum_session=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx%3D--6f4733a5aedf5f863823e662be83bd85297e6877; destination_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.arduboy.com%2Fdirectory_items%3Fperiod%3Dweekly%26order%3Dlikes_received%26_%3D1431377306013; __profilin=p%3Dt
Connection: keep-alive

```

**Response headers**

```
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 22:01:39 GMT
Server: nginx
Set-Cookie: _forum_session=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx%3D--d57d08c3217046c999685e78032e72bbb7162f51; path=/; HttpOnly
__profilin=p%3Dt; path=/
__profilin=p%3Dt; path=/
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Request-Id: e01a8c8a-3f68-4432-8824-8d1845a31c78
X-Runtime: 0.012455
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
status: 403 Forbidden
x-content-type-options: nosniff

```

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