Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32704847-20200504234907/@comment-168424-20200505002357

I'm not sure how empty category pages are any worse than empty non-category pages. Most users won't be directed to a category page that has no members unless it is explicitly linked to, which is rare.

Most of the problems you describe happen if there is no guidance for categories or enforcement of how they are used. On a wiki with a decently thought out category tree, this is almost never a problem.

I do agree that the way MediaWiki adds members to categories is awkward and hard to administrate, but it has very little to do with category description pages vs the handling of actual categories.