How to handle Wireworld duplicate?

Question

I've just closed Shortest Wireworld as a duplicate of Simulate the Wireworld cellular automaton. However, this is one of those lose-lose situations:

• Leave the new question open: answers to two essentially identical questions are split between them, or answers to the older one are reposted.
• Close the new question: no-one can post answers to either, because the previous question was already closed.

I think that the best solution is to edit the older question and reopen it. Does anyone object to me removing the last paragraph:

I will pick the winner as a combination of shortest code, usability, speed, and prettiness. I don't really care too much about prettiness, but usability is pretty important. Just make sure that you keep the code short. Good luck!

and then voting to reopen?

Answer 1

Since all the existing answers are already golfing their code, I think it's fine to turn this into a regular code golf. However, PhiNotPi is still active, so maybe he just wants to fix it himself.

There is also a third option (which I'd consider if the original author is no longer active, and the specs match up exactly): merging the old question into the new, which would move all answers over and replace the old question with a note linking to the new.