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tags: user feedback, suggestion, table deletion, protection, user experience
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# Improve Table Deletion Protection

###### Category: Suggestion
###### User: perguth (Mathesar Sponsor)
###### Source: [GitHub Issue #2697](https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/issues/2697)

## Feedback Content
>Problem
>More than once I deleted a table by accident instead of deleting the record as intended.
>
>Proposed solution
>Tables should have a higher protection level. Eg. by "copy and paste the name into this input field" like Github does it when deleting repositories.
>
>Additional context
>The two delete buttons look quite similar and are in about the same spot in the page (different tabs of course). So it's easy to be a bit too fast. And the consequences are much bigger.

## Context (Optional)

## Related GitHub Issue(s)
- [GitHub Issue #2697](https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/issues/2697)

## Actions
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