# Uncategorized shows up in Categories menu and results in 404

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncategorized-shows-up-in-categories-menu-and-results-in-404/31569>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [30 يوليو 2015، 4:28م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncategorized-shows-up-in-categories-menu-and-results-in-404/31569 "2015-07-30T16:28:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [30 يوليو 2015، 11:05م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncategorized-shows-up-in-categories-menu-and-results-in-404/31569/8 "2015-07-30T23:05:26Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I think the best approach is to remove all the “special” uncategorized handling stuff and just have it ship as a regular editable category, do the special suppression via css controlled by a site setting.

I completely agree with this. There is little reason to have Uncategorized behave special. Sure you always need a category to be assigned to a Topic, but if someone removes all categories from their instance, surely an error will occur when they try to create a new topic and can’t assign a category.

By default, Discourse should continue to ship with an Uncategorized category, just make it a regular one though and not special. That way, anyone could technically delete it and just create another category that would be their default or whatever.

I’ve seen a fair share of uncategory logic when I’ve been in and out and I must say, it always felt like walking on pins and needles when you had to alter code that was dealing with Uncategorized.

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