# האם ניתן ליצור תת-קטגוריות עם אותו שם כמו אלה שנמצאות תחת קטגוריה אחרת?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [16 במרץ, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772 "2014-03-16T01:41:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [16 במרץ, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/1 "2014-03-16T01:41:51Z")
Continuing the discussion from [How should subcategory show its parent category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-subcategory-show-its-parent-category/11075/16):
> [@mcwumbly](#):
>
> I would like to have a simple categorization system like:
>
> - product a
> - feature
> - bug
> - support
>
> - product b
> - feature
> - bug
> - support
It seems like this isn’t possible right now. Should it be?
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### Author:  [@RRManzke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RRManzke)
#### Post date: [16 במרץ, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/2 "2014-03-16T15:35:18Z")
I have same problem. I believe that in the future an implementation based on pre-defined labels (product a, product b, bug, feature, etc) will be more efficient. thus creating a topic, you select the desired tags:
[product a] [bug]
or
[product b] [feature]
anyway, there should be a technical reason to use categories rather than labels. 😄
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [16 במרץ, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/3 "2014-03-16T20:23:52Z")
The [tag vs categories debate](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shouldnt-you-be-able-to-tag-with-multiple-categories/256) will probably go on until someone writes a plugin.
But I’m just asking for a tweak that fits into the current category/subcategory system.
Category name uniqueness should probably only be enforced among siblings.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [16 במרץ, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/4 "2014-03-16T23:20:18Z")
I think this should be allowed, but will require a bunch of backend work to support it.
Additionally, the UI would be a bit problematic cause when you see `bug` you would not know what parent category it belongs to.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [16 במרץ, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/5 "2014-03-16T23:28:16Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> Additionally, the UI would be a bit problematic cause when you see bug you would not know what parent category it belongs to.
See the [latest proposal here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-subcategory-show-its-parent-category/11075/18) regarding that issue:
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### Author:  [@Aselox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aselox)
#### Post date: [3 באפריל, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/6 "2014-04-03T14:59:37Z")
Is anyone working on this feature? For me it’s really important as I have the same use case as OP
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [4 באפריל, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/7 "2014-04-04T00:32:48Z")
no one is working on this now, but we are open to a PR in this area
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [18 ביוני, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/8 "2014-06-18T12:57:36Z")
so is this possible now?
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Probably related to the changes we made to allow subcategories with the same name.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 ביוני, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/9 "2014-06-18T20:11:14Z")
Yes this is possible for subcategories now.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 בדצמבר, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-you-be-able-to-create-subcategories-with-the-same-name-as-ones-under-another-category/13772/10 "2025-12-04T11:09:28Z")