# "Make Private Message" on category description topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [9월 30, 2017, 3:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082 "2017-09-30T03:36:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@WhatllB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WhatllB)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2017, 3:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082/1 "2017-09-30T03:36:55Z")
**The bad choice:**
I was experimenting on a category’s description topic, and tried “Make Private Message” on it.
**Tried to revert/fix**
Then I chose “Make Public Topic”.
The category showed the right description in the category list, but the category description topic no longer appeared inside the category.
Then I found the topic in the Uncategorized category, but changing the category (via full edit or name edit) never changed it out of Uncategorized.
**My real fix:**
I traced through the github, and found that convert\_to\_private\_message changes the topic.archetype and nils the topic.category\_id. In this stubborn category description topic, sql showed archetype ‘regular’ and category\_id of null. _Something_ was preventing a change to the category\_id. I changed that topic record to the right category\_id, and everything looks good again. The category description is correct, and the category description topic is back and public in the right category.
**Feedback**
I’m 2 days into my first ever Discourse install, which may explain how I goofed it up making strange UI choices. Discourse is really great, and I thought it might be helpful to share the only strange experience I’ve had so far.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2017, 8:41오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082/2 "2017-09-30T08:41:24Z")
Yeah we probably want to hard disable the option to convert a category description to a PM
#pr-welcome
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [10월 2, 2017, 8:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082/3 "2017-10-02T08:05:23Z")
This is now fixed thanks to
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5216](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5216)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [10월 2, 2017, 8:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-message-on-category-description-topic/71082/4 "2017-10-02T08:05:26Z")