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Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!
This category is populated automatically by the MediaWiki software. Pages should not be added manually.

This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

To display the above header in a [maintenance] category page that is automatically populated by the MediaWiki software, and to categorize it in

Category:Categories automatically populated by the MediaWiki software

Category:Maintenance categories that should not be deleted even if empty

use

{{Autopopulated category}}

or

{{Autopopulated category|indexing label}}

in the [maintenance] category page.