Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Tech Wishlist And Bug Reports/Is there a way to have virtual categories?/reply (2)

I'm not familiar with the technical details, but it really seems to me like the categories for individual tropes and individual works should go. What are they even supposed to accomplish? I had decided to finally get all the split Kuroshitsuji pages properly categorized, but I noticed that the subpage link section at the top works perfectly fine and is aware of which pages exist and which don't without a category named after the work. I just don't see the point in manually adding a category on the main page and every subpage and then actually manually creating the category so that it isn't a redlink. That kind of thing is cumbersome and easy to forget about, especially when the only thing it seems to do is cluttering up HotCat with irrelevant not-really-categories.

Edit: I ran into the BASEPAGENAME template. However, I still have no idea what all those categories are supposed to do.