# Can't create new tag when splitting posts into a new topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-tag-when-splitting-posts-into-a-new-topic/154845>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** tags\
**Created:** [June 15, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-tag-when-splitting-posts-into-a-new-topic/154845 "2020-06-15T02:16:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-tag-when-splitting-posts-into-a-new-topic/154845/2 "2020-06-15T03:00:01Z")

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I don’t think that ever worked, so changing this to feature. Creating a new tag isn’t really the goal of splitting posts out of a topic.

Create the tag, then split.

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