As part of Article Guidance work (T396029), guidance for new articles can be captured in outlines. These outlines can include contents such as categories, which is useful to ensure the articles will be categorized automatically as they are created. However, that also causes the outlines to also be categorized. As reported by a user in the talk page, outlines being categorized made them appear in different community workflows and backlogs. For example, the test instance includes outlines such as Actor which as part of the contents includes the [[Category:Actors]] markup.

This ticket proposes to allow outlines to capture the category for new articles to be added to, without the outline to be categorized. For example, including a category attribute in the <article-guidance> tag. In this way, the Actor outline could be updated to remove the [[Category:Actors]] from the content to avoid issueas and update the main tag to become:

<article-guidance article-type="Q33999" notability-risk="wikidata junior" category="Actors">

The system would add the [[Category:Actors]] to the articles generated from the outline without the outline page being also categorized.

Other technical approaches may be possible/preferred.