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I'm currently creating several pages on my wiki as placeholders which I will create properly at a later date. Currently I'm adding a category manually to these pages to make them easier to find.

Is there anyway of automatically adding the category to empty pages, maybe how the broken file links works.

Well, if they don't have a category they would automatically show up in Special:UncategorizedPages report and in your orphaned pages under Special:LonelyPages. You might want to familiarize yourself with Special:SpecialPages if you aren't already familiar with the reports there.

Special:ShortPages could also be useful.