diff --git a/administrator/components/com_categories/models/fields/categoryedit.php b/administrator/components/com_categories/models/fields/categoryedit.php
index 9789b17e9e5c8..fccc7e97e29f1 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_categories/models/fields/categoryedit.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_categories/models/fields/categoryedit.php
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ protected function getOptions()
 				 * unless the item is already in that category.
 				 * Unset the option if the user isn't authorised for it. In this field assets are always categories.
 				 */
-				if ($user->authorise('core.create', $extension . '.category.' . $option->value) != true && $option->level != 0)
+				if ($user->authorise('core.create', $extension . '.category.' . $option->value) != true && $option->title != 'ROOT')
 				{
 					unset($options[$i]);
 				}
diff --git a/administrator/manifests/packages/pkg_weblinks.xml b/administrator/manifests/packages/pkg_weblinks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f8699dcaaecd2..0000000000000
--- a/administrator/manifests/packages/pkg_weblinks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<extension type="package" version="3.6" method="upgrade">
-	<name>pkg_weblinks</name>
-	<packagename>weblinks</packagename>
-	<creationDate>December 2012</creationDate>
-	<packager>Joomla! Project</packager>
-	<copyright>(C) 2005 - 2016 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.</copyright>
-	<packageremail>admin@joomla.org</packageremail>
-	<packagerurl>www.joomla.org</packagerurl>
-	<author>Joomla! Project</author>
-	<authorEmail>admin@joomla.org</authorEmail>
-	<authorUrl>www.joomla.org</authorUrl>
-	<version>3.4.1</version>
-	<license>GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see	LICENSE.txt</license>
-	<description>PKG_WEBLINKS_XML_DESCRIPTION</description>
-	<files>
-		<!-- The id for each extension is the element stored in the DB -->
-		<file type="component" id="com_weblinks">com_weblinks.zip</file>
-		<file type="module" id="mod_weblinks" client="site">mod_weblinks.zip</file>
-		<file type="plugin" id="weblinks" group="finder">plg_finder_weblinks.zip</file>
-		<file type="plugin" id="weblinks" group="search">plg_search_weblinks.zip</file>
-	</files>
-	<languages folder="language">
-		<language tag="en-GB">en-GB/en-GB.pkg_weblinks.sys.ini</language>
-	</languages>
-	<updateservers>
-		<!-- Note: No spaces or linebreaks allowed between the server tags -->
-		<server type="extension" name="Weblinks Update Site">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla-extensions/weblinks/master/manifest.xml</server>
-	</updateservers>
-</extension>