title: Why does a category have a weird path defined in the Magento database?
body: <p>My <code>catalog_category_entity</code> table has an entry for a category that does not appear anywhere in the admin area of the site, or in the front end. </p>
  
  <p>It has a weird path: "/30" (30 is its <code>entity_id</code>). Every other category in every other Magento site I have access to starts its path with a number, not a slash.</p>
  
  <p>It has entries through the rest of the EAV system in various places.</p>
  
  <p>My suspicion is that someone ran a bad import, or other manual process, which left this category in the database, when really it should have been simply deleted.</p>
  
  <p>Is this an anomaly, or is there a reason for this category to have a weird path? </p>