Category talk:Dead categories
Now what?
So do we want to delete these categories? Are we keeping them for any other purposes? They can be redirected where appropriate if you want. --Mwn3d 18:37, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
- I invented {{dead category}} because I wanted a parking lot for pages like Category:Bash or Category:Less Than 5 Examples. These abandoned categories have no members, but their pages still exist.
- The problem with redirected categories is that they seem not to move their pages. For example, if someone redirects Category:Iterative loops to Category:Iteration, then all the pages in Iterative loops stay in Iterative loops, not Iteration. There is no problem with redirecting empty categories; now that Category:Iterative loops is empty, it can again be a redirect. --Kernigh 03:47, 10 September 2011 (UTC)