Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories

The subcategories in this container are redirects from alternative category names to their existing categories. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Category redirect|(destination category name)}} on the top line of the redirect's edit page. For more information, follow the template link.
Also see WP:CATRED.

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.

This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should only contain subcategories.

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

Redirects to categories should always be soft redirects due to technical issues. Category redirects should remain empty. Category redirects that are populated will also be automatically added to the subcategory Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories.