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:Aha - I didn't want to make any drastic changes – but yes, I agree, we have un-necessary duplication.  [[:Category:Dead]] currently has 270 articles, and [[:Category:Inactive]] currently has 860 articles.  I would personally prefer that the Dead category be kept; as Inactive has the potential to be confused with [[:Category:Dormant]].  In terms of templates, we currently have both [[Template:Wiki dead]] and [[Template:Inactive]] – 'Wiki dead' renders a page better than 'Inactive' – the least preferred one can be redirected to the other.  Which ever way you wish to proceed with the 1000+ affected articles, you'll need to create a [[:Category:User Bot|bot account]] to process all the changes :p --[[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] 12:16, 8 January 2012 (PST)

What about wikis like [http://libertarianwiki.paulstudier.com/ Libertarian Wiki] that disabled editing for other reasons besides reaching their goal? In that case, the wiki shut down because a couple of users copied the content and created their own forks, and the owner decided his wiki was superfluous. However, he kept it online in case anyone else wanted to do their own fork. Another example would be [http://rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/ RationalWikiWikiWiki], which shut down because it was decided that dealing with censorship was more trouble than it was worth. Editing and even viewing by non-logged-in users was disabled (for the sake of appeasing those who objected to its content), but the site was kept online for the sake of allowing users to retrieve their content.