# Make it more obvious in a split-off topic that it was split off

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-obvious-in-a-split-off-topic-that-it-was-split-off/139937>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-obvious-in-a-split-off-topic-that-it-was-split-off/139937 "2020-01-28T13:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![native-api](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@native-api](https://meta.discourse.org/u/native-api)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-obvious-in-a-split-off-topic-that-it-was-split-off/139937/1 "2020-01-28T13:41:34Z")

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Presently, if I split some messages into a new topic, all they have is a regular link to the old topic under the first split post. It’s not obvious at all from the UI that these message(s) where split from somehwere else.

Practice has shown that such messages often have implicit references to the previous ones in the old topic – e.g. “I have a similar problem”, “mentioned above” and such.

This has proven to lead to misunderstandings and confusion about what the post author means – requiring me to manually edit the post to include explicit references to the old topic – which is tedious, laborous and unnecessary work.

I’m hereby suggesting to insert a banner before the first split post that it was split off from there and there – the same as the banner that is inserted into the old topic. This would make any possible references in the post(s) clear and require no further work or clarifications.

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See [a reply below](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-obvious-in-a-split-off-topic-that-it-was-split-off/139937/5) for a suggested example look.

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