Empty parent categories of populated children should not be flagged with "noindex" as default.
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sybrew commented
From korvak's report:
Parent categories inherit their children's posts, whether the user assigns them or not.
So, even "empty" parent categories with a post count of 0 are indexable.
We should consider this a bug in WordPress, too -- it ought not to set "post count" to 0 for those.
This issue also affects the category-(quick-)edit screens, where the default for indexing is set to "noindex" (it should be "index").
sybrew commented
The resolution has something to do with pad_counts, which will tell WordPress to count children's posts.