# Hiding/deleting topic "about the xxx category"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-deleting-topic-about-the-xxx-category/72530>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [October 21, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-deleting-topic-about-the-xxx-category/72530 "2017-10-21T11:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-deleting-topic-about-the-xxx-category/72530/9 "2017-10-21T15:38:35Z")

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So if I understand both of you correctly, you’d be happy if there was an error message that said something like:

> Cannot delete “about this category” topics. X other [topics/posts] deleted.

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