# Should you be able to create subcategories with the same name as ones under another category?

**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:** [2014 年 3 月 16 日午前 1:41 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")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2014 年 3 月 16 日午後 11:20 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")

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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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