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When categorizing an article through general Guided Editing, it brings up categories that don’t exist. For example, the “Autism” category was redirected to the clearer name “Autism Spectrum,” yet when you search “Autism” in the categorizer, it brings up the name of the old autism category right away. You can even select it and add it as a category. For example, this article had been categorized under “Autism.” http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Tell-a-Child-He-Has-Autism&diff=17684462&oldid=17684286 Is there a way to remove the “Autism” category from the categorizer? It’s confusing to people who don’t know about the move, and it’s causing articles not to appear in the category where they belong. Thank you!

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I see both the old one and the new one. I am not sure, but I think it might be what @MissLunaRose is seeing.

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An administrator-only workaround might be to keep deleting the nonexistent categories that are showing up, until a solution can be found for this.
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Yes, this is exactly what I am seeing. Thanks for clarifying there! I would be willing to re-categorize all the articles miscategorized under “Autism” (although unfortunately that wouldn’t fix the main issue of the category still appearing). Does anyone know how to find these articles?

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I visited the category’s redirect page , and it contains nothing but the redirect, so it is useless if you are trying to find an article there. Tagging @Anna for input.

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I deleted the redirect page and that seems to have fixed the tool:slight_smile:I don’t think any articles ended up tagged with the category by mistake - I believe they would still appear here or here , and I don’t see any. So I think and hope we’re good!