Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5578690-20131117131228/@comment-5578690-20131117135143

RansomTime wrote: Cascading protection protects the page and any pages that are transcluded on that page.

No pages are typically transcluded on a category page, it doesn't (and wasn't written to) protect all pages in that category. This isn't Wikia doing anything different to core MW either way, doesn't work. tried all the possibilities, none work. i'm going to leave at that.