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The VE's Page Settings dialog redirect options work badly for category destinations.

For example, if you choose 'Category:Article stubs' as your destination, it inserts this:

#REDIRECT [[Category:Article stubs]]

While this does redirect the page, it also places that page in the "Article stubs" category.

It *should* put this on the page:

#REDIRECT [[:Category:Article stubs]]

Note the additional ":" - this prevents the category being interpreted wrongly.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor:Redirecttest&action=history