On 26/07/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but there are many problems like (eg, pages that aren't linked to, pages that don't link to anything, pages that aren't categorised) that best dealt with through "special pages". "Category has no super-category" does not seem an appropriate reason for the category to be a redlink - especially since it's easy to have a category with no super category that *isn't* a redlink.
I would say that for a category to be considered to "exist" it needs to be related to other categories (and, via these, the rest of the category tree). So to exist it needs to be categorised (contain the text "[[Category:Foo]]"), and so be no longer red. Therefore, redcategories typically indicate unlinked (and unuseful) categories.