https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48824

--- Comment #2 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> ---
Merlijn's analysis is basically correct. I only have two things to add:
1. This is not limited to the API, it also applies to Special:Categories. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories/Cultural_heritage_monuments_in_Dari
2. This is actually the documented behavior, although I don't know whether that
documentation exists outside of comments in maintenance/tables.sql: the
definition of an existing category is that it at some point had a page in it,
regardless of whether a corresponding page in namespace 14 exists or ever
existed.

The question is whether this is just bug 1 (improve the documentation) or if
the definition of "category" should be changed as suggested. I see no
particular reason not to change the definition besides "it's more work", but
others might know more about the situation than I do.

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