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Closing of a question typically does not only prohibit the addition of further answers but also signals to the content creator and future visitors that something is seriously wrong with the content and needs to be improved (see also comments by [Moshi](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/4352#comment-13293) and [Olin](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/4343#comment-13275)). This signal is conveyed with a custom message that is displayed next to the post.

In case of articles almost all the typical close reasons apply. Articles can be off-topic, duplicates of other articles or Q&A, too short and maybe there are a couple of other things that can make them problematic.

The difficulty here is mostly wording. Question can be closed. Articles cannot. They can rather be marked or flagged as something. Close voting isn't (technically) much different from flagging.

We mostly need a new word for the action on articles and a discussion of which of these actions are reasonable. It's like gluing small post-it notes on content (Wikipedia does that too sometimes) with some kind of meta information, additionally to disallowing certain actions like answering questions.

So maybe we should rename "Close" to "Mark" or something else on articles.