A while ago I was reading an article about something in Texas and came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Handbook_of_Texas_citations on the bottom. That category is added by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Handbookoftexas , a useful external link template. But the category seems like simple clutter in the list of categories on the article. So I listed it for deletion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_Sept... ). Due at least in part to someone spamming the talk pages of Texas Wikipedians, the category was kept.
I honestly don't understand any of the arguments for keep. Some are plain erroneous (one person likens it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1911_Britannica , which is for articles that *contain* text from the 1911 EB) and others don't make sense.
Basically I'm asking for a reason why this category should exist, and why I shouldn't be bold and remove it from the template.