# "Title is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive" - why?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/title-is-invalid-try-to-be-a-little-more-descriptive-why/28911
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 17, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/title-is-invalid-try-to-be-a-little-more-descriptive-why/28911 "2015-05-17T09:54:32Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/title-is-invalid-try-to-be-a-little-more-descriptive-why/28911/6 "2015-05-17T20:30:03Z")

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It is because a phrase with a lot of periods in between is considered a word, and a “too long” word. This has come up a few times @eviltrout and that regex should be changed to consider a period a “space” for the purposes of that check.

The goal is to block topics that have a title of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but the check needs to be a bit smarter about what it considers to be word breaks.

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