# The Yearly Review plugin keeps creating new topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-yearly-review-plugin-keeps-creating-new-topics/250716>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** yearly-review\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-yearly-review-plugin-keeps-creating-new-topics/250716 "2023-01-04T15:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-yearly-review-plugin-keeps-creating-new-topics/250716/1 "2023-01-04T15:35:08Z")

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Hi!

A yearly review was created on my forum. The topic was renamed, and because the yearly review plugin checks for identical title names to know if it has to create a new yearly review, it created another one 24 hours after.

I deleted the new one, renamed the first one with the default title.

But the plugin still creates new topics after 24 hours.

Here’s what [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) returns:

```sql
SELECT created_at, title, fancy_title
FROM topics
WHERE title like '%2022%année en cours de révision%'
AND deleted_at IS NULL
ORDER BY created_at DESC

```

| created\_at | title | fancy\_title |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023-01-04T14:52:19.345Z | `2022 : l&#x27;année en cours de révision` | `2022 : l&amp;rsquo;année en cours de révision` |
| 2023-01-01T10:09:20.503Z | `2022 : l&#x27;année en cours de révision` | `2022 : l&amp;rsquo;année en cours de révision` |

ℹ it actually created new ones 3 times, maybe because of a difference between a quote and a fancy quote\[1\] in the title so I had to, hence the 3 days date difference and the only 2 results, but I’d like to keep only the first created one.

Any idea why the plugin continues to create topics despite having an existing one with the default title, and how to stop it from doing so? What if I disable it and re-enable it at the end of 2023? Will it create a topic 24h after I re-enable it?  
Plus, that would not be the most elegant solution, so I’d like to know where exactly the issue comes from 🤔

I’ll disable the plugin for the next days/weeks until the issue is identified and the new yearly reviews creations are prevented.

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1. See the anecdote here: [A few questions about the yearly review plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-questions-about-the-yearly-review-plugin/250571)

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