Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-30269588-20190830191522/@comment-168424-20190903181603

Again, the above applies to the Category description page not a category as an entity that shows up in Special:Categories which is the definitive list of categories. If a page is part of a category, the category exists (and shows up in the special page list just mentioned), but does not have a description page by default.


 * Example of Category description page that exists and has pages in its category: Category:Admin Forum
 * Example of Category description page that exists, but has content you can't see and has pages in its category: Category:Admin tools
 * Example of Category description page that doesn't exist and has pages in its category: Category:Alien
 * Example of Category description page that doesn't exist and doesn't have pages in its category: Category:Phantom category

I know this is complicated, but I don't want mis-information getting propagated, otherwise it makes it harder to explain in the future.