Forum:Adding a category to a redirect page - GUI method fails

I suppose this is more a bug report than a help question.

I find the Add category button near the bottom of each page very handy for adding or changing categories. However, I recently noticed that this GUI method of adding a category fails for a page that has the #redirect wiki markup.

The only dependable way that I can add a category to a redirect page is to use the source editor and type the  Category:Category name wiki markup and then save the page. Using the GUI method, the named category does not always display at the bottom of one of these redirect pages. Even when it does get displayed correctly, if I visit the page for the named category then I do not see the subject redirect page listed as a member of the category.

It occurs to me as I type this that the reason for this may lie in the annoying job queue. Perhaps the GUI method of adding a category is not, by itself, enough to make the change "take effect" and my opening, editing and saving the redirect page is really all that was stopping redirect pages from showing up as members of a category. Checking just now the job queue length is 0 but I can't be sure it was 0 at the time I noticed the anomalous behavior.

najevi 13:57, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I have to confirm this problem! It even removes existing categories from redirection pages. But it only happens when editing a page. When you use the category select feature at the article without editing the page it works.
 * To give an example: Nobody has ever remove a category on purpose at this redirection page (until now). It always happend when editing the page, for example to fix the redirection (2nd, 4th, and 8th edit), to break the redirection (6th edit) or even when you try to do a null edit (10th edit). Note that all edits with summary "Adding categories" are done at the page without editing. --Justme2 15:08, 21 June 2009 (UTC)