It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).
Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.
If this category has 15 items or more, it will be reported as a backlog. (recount)
This category tracks hatnote pages using unusual or undesirable parameters. It is currently populated by {{for}} and {{other uses of}}:
{{for}} populates the category if its first parameter (the "use") is set to "other uses". These cases should use {{other uses}} instead.
{{other uses of}} populates the category if it is given no (non-empty) parameters, or if the first parameter is (case-insensitively) equal to the page title. These cases should use {{other uses}} instead.
Some of the users of these two templates may also be switched to use {{About}} instead.