# Topic splitting made a quote show as deleted message in new topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-splitting-made-a-quote-show-as-deleted-message-in-new-topic/132868>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 7, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-splitting-made-a-quote-show-as-deleted-message-in-new-topic/132868 "2019-11-07T19:41:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dan/32/101549_2.png) [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-splitting-made-a-quote-show-as-deleted-message-in-new-topic/132868/8 "2019-11-08T18:02:31Z")

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I had a try at fixing this issue here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8326](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8326)

This is a best-effort fix which tries to replace constructs such as `post:{old post number}, topic:{old topic ID}` using data from `quoted_posts` and `moved_posts`, without knowing if it is indeed a part of the [quote] tag.

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