User blog comment:Jspyster1/Operation R.E.W.R.I.T.E./@comment-1915803-20130901232806/@comment-1915803-20130902211613

The rewrite badges have been terminated, meaning that users can no longer earn badges for making edits to pages with the rewrite category but can keep the badges they earned throughout the project's three-year history.

Based on further analysis, I believe we should keep the Rewrite template and category, even if they aren't used to the same degree in the future. There may always arise a situation where an article needs to be rewritten for some reason or another. Of course, we will need to remake the template to where it has no reference to the now defunct Operation R.E.W.R.I.T.E.