# Change ownership of a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919 "2014-02-20T21:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919/1 "2014-02-20T21:26:45Z")

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It’s kinda annoying that you can’t change the ownership of the auto-seeded category definition topics for Meta or Lounge.

Can you either:

- Use `site_contact_username` as the topic creator
- Provide a mechanism for an admin to change ownership of a post

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