I have just noticed that a few days ago, a user removed the names of several women from a certain "MILF actress" category [1], but he was summarily reverted and threatened with a block for acting outside of normal CFD procedure.
'''If you depopulate a category while it's under discussion at CFD, you may be blocked and possibly have your AWB priviledges [sic] temporarily or permanently revoked.'' '[2]
That's right, even for categories which have no business existing to begin with.
Maybe we can at least add
<includeonly>__HIDDENCAT__</includeonly>
to the {{cfd}} template, or better still add
{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Category|__HIDDENCAT__}}
to {{cfd}} and {{prod}} and all {{db-whatever}} templates.
this would keep dubious categories out of articles without tampering with the list of members (articles, subcats) which the cfd participants will often want to peruse.
—C.W.
[1] I believe this was a BLP issue in every case (otherwise it would be too disgusting to think about o.O) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Koavf&diff=210421337...