Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-34201470-20180425145932/@comment-35295812-20180425235029

Fandyllic wrote: There definitely seems to be a confusion here between a category and the category page itself.

You can see what's in a category page if you try to edit it. For example, if you try to edit w:c:streetsharks:Category:Upcoming (this is a category page), you'll see that it has the text "Upcoming." in it. It also is part of two categories, Movies and Characters which also count as content.

If you have the ability to delete pages, you should see a "Delete" item in the Edit drop menu of the category page and you can delete the category page. Note: Removing the contents of a page is not the same as deleting it.

The way categories work in Fandom wikis (and MediaWiki wikis in general) is that if you add any page to a category, that category exists by definition, but the category page will not exist until you edit the category page and put something in it. So if you create category page, but delete all the members of the category by removing whatever adds it to the category, the category page will still exist until you delete it as well.

Does that make sense? Nope.