User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: August 16, 2011/@comment-4053809-20110817174436/@comment-1401334-20110817182306

 'this is really helpful information that is more actionable than simply saying "I don't like this change."' 

If "I don't like this change" is the only meaning you got out of our comments, then your "we hear you" response really does show how little attention has been given to our objections. Perhaps I should refresh your memory with the 'helpful information' in comments:
 * "With making nonexistant categories as if they exists, there's no proper way to users to learn that they should connect categories with each other, so you are effectively condemning it to the extinction, since unconnected categories does not allow a complete navigation... Maybe some wikis may benefit from that, but big wikis not, so you shouldn't force those features on all wikis as if all were the same."
 * "As for the "it's for the readers" argument; catering to readers is all nice and well, but ultimately you don't help them if you make maintenance increasingly harder for the editors... you're missing the point that on established wikis, red-linked categories do not need to be created at least half of the time - the rest of the time, they serve as an easily visible indicator that the one who put it there got the category name wrong and that it needs to be corrected. "
 * "See this forum thread, which was created just today. People expect the page to exist if the link is blue. The blue links will tend to lead new users to not create categories at all - as they think they already exist. If putting a page in the category makes it exist, is there any need to put text on it? Not in the eyes of the average editor."
 * "The inexperienced editors are the ones most likely to make non-existent or miss-spelled categories, so they are the ones who most need the visual feedback on when a category they linked does not exist."
 * "What ends up happening is editors create a large amount of pages with a wide-spread category setup... but never realizes the categories need to be 'created' and added to the category tree. Other users click categories to 'read more' (remember the details bar and how important that was at the time?) but essentially get a bunch of orphaned pages that don't allow the user to view other categories that should be in the same branch, or browse to parent categories to view other branches."
 * "Uncreated (redlinked) categories usually only contain one item. So someone going to that category is missing out on what they are looking for. The correct category usually has many pages in it. So sending someone to a mistake does not help them. It actually misdirects them in many cases... So this change confuses the average reader, and baffles editors unaware of it."