Forum:Prevent addition to category

Is there a way to prevent any page from being added to a certain category? Wumbo00 (talk) 22:45, December 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, no. Well, I guess you can try adding that category name to the blacklist - actually, that wouldn't work, because then if a page was already in that category, it wouldn't be possible for anyone to save that page after editing.
 * So, no. -452 19:00, December 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * The answer depends on how you add a page to a category. If it is being added directly (aka ), then you can't prevent it from showing up in the category, but you can add a category via a template (aka  ) and you can control whether the category takes effect based on conditions like page name, a parameter, etc.
 * So the answer is yes, but only if you do it a certain way. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 10 Dec 2012 3:40 PM Pacific