https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26411

--- Comment #17 from Robert Morley <[email protected]> ---
I hadn't looked closely at the patch and thought he'd added both the automatic
deletion functionality and the maintenance script. I see now that that was
incorrect.

For your first solution, I think your point about *NSYNC means that a default
of acmin=1 would be an easy-to-write interim solution.

I really feel that the second solution is the way to go in the long run,
though. The category table never getting cleaned up is basically a resource
leak, which is bad in its own right, but could also conceivably be used to
expose unwanted profanity or sensitive data with no easy way to get rid of it.

I was thinking about sometimes-empty categories, but even if a category is
empty, it'll almost always have a category page associated with it (in which
case it should be kept, as you mentioned). Even if it doesn't, I don't think
deleting it will really matter. I suppose you might want it left as a category
suggestion or what have you, but really, if that's what you want, you should be
creating a page for the thing anyway.

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