Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7810843-20130408120930/@comment-10688548-20130408123322

Lord no!

The delete template just puts a flag on the page for it to be deleted by passing admins, or discussed for deletion on larger, consensus-oriented wikis. Since you're presumably an admin yourself, you can actually delete the page: IIRC it's in the drop down list by "Edit".

Category pages are special, though: even if they don't exist, a quasi-page is created and exists as long as at least one page is in the category. So in addition to deleting the page, you must remove the category from each page in the category... a manual and time-consuming process.