Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Tech Wishlist And Bug Reports/Is there a way to have virtual categories?

On Wikipedia, if you add something like the cleanup template, no category appears at the bottom of the page, not even in the article source, yet there is a category that shows all the pages with the template. On All The Tropes, if you add that sort of template, a category appears automatically at the bottom of the page and is now in the page source. If the reason for the template is removed and the template no longer applies, not only the template needs to be manually removed, but also the category. Otherwise the page still appears in the category listing.

I think All The Tropes should do this the Wikipedia way. Needing to edit multiple places to do one thing is cumbersome and easily causes errors, especially by editors used to editing Wikipedia.

The categories for individual works and tropes are a much worse bother. Those clutter HotCat and diminish its usability and are very impractical when the name of a trope or a work is changed. If it's at all possible, All The Tropes should find subpages for the header based on the directory structure, not category placement