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*What's the [[Wikipedia:point|point]] in [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adley Rutschman|keeping our article]] on [[Adley Rutschman]] if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season? |
*What's the [[Wikipedia:point|point]] in [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adley Rutschman|keeping our article]] on [[Adley Rutschman]] if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season? |
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*[[Among Us]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Among Us (3rd nomination)|nominated for deletion]] per [[WP:SUS]]. |
*[[Among Us]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Among Us (3rd nomination)|nominated for deletion]] for the third consecutive year per [[WP:SUS]]. |
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*[[Animutation]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Animutation (2nd nomination)|nominated for deletion]] because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims. |
*[[Animutation]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Animutation (2nd nomination)|nominated for deletion]] because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims. |
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* [[Apollo 11]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apollo 11|nominated for deletion]] per [[WP:HOAX]]. |
* [[Apollo 11]] was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apollo 11|nominated for deletion]] per [[WP:HOAX]]. |
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Deletion nominations
A-F
- What's the point in keeping our article on Adley Rutschman if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season?
- Among Us was nominated for deletion for the third consecutive year per WP:SUS.
- Animutation was nominated for deletion because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims.
- Apollo 11 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
- April Fools’ Day was nominated for deletion for false statements on this page.
- {{April Fools AfD Reasoning|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME|reason={{{2}}}}}
- Artificial intelligence was nominated for deletion per WP:AI and to save humanity.
- Artificial intelligence art was nominated for deletion for the good of Wikipedia and the society it rules.
- Art gallery was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOTREPOSITORY and WP:GALLERY rules
- 𰻝𰻝面 was nominated for deletion for having way too much detail for no reason.
- Bielefeld was nominated for deletion for not existing.
- BFDI was nominated for deletion for being too violent and very much banned.
- Black and white was nominated for deletion in favor of cycling colors.
- Bluey (2018 TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:BLUE and creating confusion with another famous blue dog.
- Last year's AfD nomination for Bobby Witt Jr. has been reopened because it had only ran for merely two hour and nineteen minutes last year. Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!
- Brazil was nominated for deletion for being too scary to visit like Ohio.
- Chainsaw Man was nominated for deletion because Bocchi the Rock! is better.
- Care was nominated for deletion.
- ChatGPT nominated itself for deletion.
- Chinese characters was nominated for deletion for being as hard as writing Biangbiang noodles
- Someone got mad at Combinatorial game theory because they moved second in a game with value .
- LazarBeam got yeeted by some Wikipedian.
- Comment got commented out. Go to edit source to read what it says.
- 🦀 Crab 🦀 Rave 🦀 is 🦀 gone! 🦀
- Cursor (user interface) was nominated for deletion for being so pointy that it can't even render
- Depths of Wikipedia was out of the depths for a while now and was nominated for deletion for being inaccurate.
- Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion for being caught cheating.
- Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez were nominated for deletion for being the same person.
- Duolingo was nominated for deletion for aiding and abetting a systematic oppression and harassment of users who missed a streak on any language courses. Call Menchetti and Sons to learn more.
- Dysarthria wash nominayted for deleeshion.
- Earth was nominated for deletion for the 18th time. One day it will be successful.
- Field of Corn was nominated for deletion because for the fact that we can't eat concrete corn, and it's yucky.
- Filli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy cry twice in this episode.
- Fox was nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior wolves.
- FTX is nominated for deletion for being responsible for crashing the crypto market in November 2022
G-M
- Good faith was nominated for deletion per WP:ABF.
- Harambe was deemed a dead meme.
- HTML is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
- Ice cream was nominated for deletion for illegally transmitting the unthinkable to the world.
- The Interstate Highway System, especially all primary Interstate highways, is nominated for deletion for destroying Wikipedians' neighborhood and being as overrated, overengineered, and overbuilt as heck.
- The Illuminati was nominated for deletion for (Redacted) and WP:POINTY.
- Invisibility wasnominated for deletion a second timebecause the nominator had the same idea as the first person.
- Does not work on Wikipedia's smartphone app because of Wikipedia:Dark mode.
- Invisibility is nominated for deletion per MOS:TEXT
- Unlike the other one, this one does work on Wikipedia:Dark mode.
- IP address is nominated for deIetion per m:IP masking.
- Italic type was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
- Jane Byrne Interchange was nominated for deletion for failing to solve congestion, plus the fact that Illinois is becoming Texas (that's disgusting).
- Kyrie Irving was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
- Kanye West was nominated for deletion per WP:No Nazis.
- Line height was nominated for deletion for being unnecessary.
- Limon, Colorado was nominated for deletion for "LIMON!!!"
- LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!
- Matthew Guy was nominated for deletion because he tried to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
- Stop doing Mathematics
- Mayor of New York was nominated because I run New York!
- Mercury and Venus are nominated for deletion as they are both unlikely habitable for human now and in the future.
- Michael Chavis was nominated for deletion because the nominator was reminded of a short-haired Chavis over at Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023
N-S
- Nature was nominated for deletion.
- Never Gonna Give You Up was disallowed by an edit filter.
- Nupedia was nominated for deletion for being a free encyclopedia that no one can edit.
- Ohio was nominated for deletion for... I have actually never been there, so I am going to bring up eyewitnesses to know what is happening in Ohio.
- Old English was nominated for deletion on the basis that the language is simply an elaborate prank.
- Patrick's Parabox was nominated for deletion with an AfD that contains itself. Fortunately it only goes one layer deep.
- Pessimism was nominated for deletion.[citation needed]
- Physics was nominated for deletion with a tilted look.
- r/place was to be whited out.
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are nominated for deletion for ḃḕḯɦĝ а̄ Бчḡḡλ ΜεṤṤ
- Procrastination will be nominated for deletion eventually.
- Rules were nominated for deletion per Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.
- Semicolon was nominated for deletion because Python is better.
- September, October, November and December are nominated for deletion as they are misleading.
- Shipping (fandom) was nominated for deletion to prevent flame wars.
- Social media was nominated for deletion for violation of WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK no matter how addictive it gets.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (character) was nominated for deletion because he is dead. The AFD is holding a funeral for him right now.
- Soviet Union was nominated for deletion for trying to block Wikipedia when Wikipedia blocks trolls like Stalin.
- Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so AfD'd so that nobody would expect it.
- Spherical Earth was nominated for deletion because the world is flat and there are turtles all the way down.
- Splatoon (Splatoon 1, Splatoon 2 + Octo Expansion, and Splatoon 3) are nominated for deletion. Yes, this nominator will ruin today's Splatfest, so stop vandalizing and turf warring on Chicago's transportation system.
- Stroad is nominated for deletion for being dangerous and only served to get cars to travel at 69.2 kilometres per hour (43.0 mph).
Strikethrough was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
T-Z
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie was nominated for deletion because the nominator wanted the Sonic movies to be superior.
- TikTok was nominated for deletion.
- Timeline of the far future was nominated for deletion for WP:BALL.
- Traffic congestion was nominated for deletion for being too hard to alleviate because of induced demand.
- Traffic light was nominated for deletion for accessibility reasons (particularly color). Go to Tipperary Hill in Syracuse and you will soon find out why.
- To the Moon was nominated for deletion for being cryptocurrency propaganda.
- Trout was whacked with a WP:TROUT.
- Ty Gibbs was nominated for deletion for being a nepo baby.
- Underline was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
- Vertical writing was nominated for deletion because I am disoriented. This is out of balance.
- Wolf was also nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior foxes.
- Wikilink is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
- Whopper was nominated for deletion for being closer to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than Burger King.
- Wittenoom, Western Australia is nominated for deletion for being contaminated with asbestos.
- index.php was nominated for deletion.
- robots.txt was nominated for deletion.
- 503.html was nominated for deletion for being old and redundant.
- Special:ProtectPage was nominated for deletion per WP:OWN.
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was nominated for deletion because it had way too many problems in NotOrrio's eyes
- Vector 2022 was nominated for deletion because everyone doesn't like it.
- Special:Logout was nominated for deletion per WP:HOLIC.
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Recursion is trying to delete itself.
- All Earth AfDs (apart from the first) were nominated for deletion for being unfunny, as stated in its first AfD.
- ANI was nominated for deletion because it serves no other purpose but to create drama.
- Wikipedia:Be bold was nominated for deletion for being a bad example of being bold.
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion, oh wait it's actually impossible to tell.
- User:ARandomPage was nominated for deletion to prevent them from deleting Wikipedia's Main Page.
- User:Awesome Aasim was nominated for deletion for undisclosed reasons.
- User:AmandaNP was nominated for deletion for creating the date "April 1".
- User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for explosion.
- User:Melecie failed the Pokémon Test and was to be deleted.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Witt Jr. was subject to a deletion review because Witt failed to cut his hair in the year between the AfD and today.
- The discussion has been speedily closed due to time constraint surrounding April Fools.
Creation nominations
Articles for creation
- That Thing by That Place was nominated for creation for being notable.
Other requests
Requests for adminship
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Belford railway station, New South Wales
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gerbilling
Requested moves
Please do not add the "{{Rm/dated}}" template (or immediately remove it as soon as it is added), as that will tag the page with the requested moves tag. However, please feel free to open a joke requested move proposal and list it here. |
- Is → Was, to avoid inevitable edit wars over changing "is" to "was"
- The moment Walter White → Werner Heisenberg
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/Patrick Kane: We don't need Connor Bedard anymore; we need Patrick Kane!
Featured picture candidates
- File:Commons-eligible fan art of Babylon Rogues generated by Bing Image Creator.jpg was nominated for featured picture. It all started with Jet the Hawk's ego...
In the News nominations
- A Recent Death nomination was made for Sonic the Hedgehog per The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Requests for comment
Project proposals
User page pranks
- User:Melecie has officially had their life ruined by TV Tropes.
- The furry Whisper the Wolf symbol got replaced with a page-large storm of Silver the Hedgehog doodles on User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki.
- Last month, User:Azeem1Hadzrie announced a edit war on it's userpage. By the last hour of March, it was cancelled to prevent a 3rd April Fools' Day Edit War from happening.
- Wesoree rotated his userpage upside down and changed the font to Comic Sans MS.
- Catfurball had their userpage rotated along with Wesoree leaving a mark.
- Misc Practice rotated his userpage 135 degrees.
- Lovable98158's about section was skewed
- The spinning texts were "AMOGUS ඞ".
- It only lasted for 10 minutes
- The spinning texts were "AMOGUS ඞ".
- Planetberaure rotated his userpage 270 degrees because he was laying down for a nap.
- The talk page of User:Azeem1Hadzrie has turned upside down.
- NotOrrio's changed the content on his user page so it stares that it's being rebuilt as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project
- Billionnine's page is now nonsense that is meme.
- Was turned upside down.
- Blaze Wolf had his userpage fox-ified
- Are you sure you did not flip Aasim's talk page?
- Cyberpower678's talk page decided to do a barrel roll.
- Disoneiscool8745's userpage has been turned blue (da bu dee da bu da)
- The user's spinning text has been slowered 6000 times.
- Then it got reverted.
- The user's spinning text has been slowered 6000 times.
- Taking Out The Trash generated some trash for them to take out.
- Jimbo's user page and talk page are goofed up again.
- Fatal error in 3PPYB6.exe: semicolon expected in line 18,229 (of 67,558 lines).
- User:Shadow of the Starlit Sky's userpage now redirects to Never Gonna Give You Up.
- User:TILRs posted so many wombats on this page, so their userpage was smashed by the almighty whale as a result.
- User:BrownHairedGirl was given some brown hair by – CityUrbanism 🗩 🖉.
- User:多多123 was rotated 100 degrees [1].
- The Guhua geek made his user page spin at about 2,400 revolutions per minute.
- However had a vertigo on his own so the spin was gone.
Other pranks
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- An keepy-uppy balloon was added to the Joke pages section.
- It was then gone.
- Later, it was upgraded.
- And then it was deleted again.
- And it was returned, but upgraded again.
- It was downgraded.
- It was exploded.
- It was turned into a icosahedron.
- Remember people, no edit wars
- The Keepy Uppy balloon had help with its return.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon served well and was moved to its permanent home.
- Then the wombat was revived, then died.
- A tribute to the Keepy Uppy Balloon was put at the bottom of this page.
- The tribute was deleted
- After the roadkill was cleared, the tribute respawned again, and was deleted again.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon was revived :P using
{{Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Keepy Uppy Balloon bottom right corner}}
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- The Keepy Uppy balloon was revived :P using
- After the roadkill was cleared, the tribute respawned again, and was deleted again.
- The tribute was deleted
- A tribute to the Keepy Uppy Balloon was put at the bottom of this page.
- Then the wombat was revived, then died.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon served well and was moved to its permanent home.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon had help with its return.
- Remember people, no edit wars
- It was turned into a icosahedron.
- It was exploded.
- It was downgraded.
- And it was returned, but upgraded again.
- And then it was deleted again.
- Later, it was upgraded.
- It was then gone.
- Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded yet again!
- Jimbo was blocked for (up to) one whole minute. No gods, no masters! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- Jimbo was reported as a vandalism-only account.
- The sandbox was filled with sand.
- It lasted less than a minute.
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates was tilted just enough to be annoying. Also Wikipedia:Village pump.
- Some maintenance tags were added to Wikipedia:Tag bombing
- The section's text mentions the 3rd Great Edit War.
- Later, the section's text font was changed to a fancy style.
- It returned to normal, but it's upside down.
- Then the upside-down effect disappeared.
- The text was changed to "Other tomfoolery", then it was reverted later.
- Then the upside-down effect disappeared.
- It returned to normal, but it's upside down.
- Later, the section's text font was changed to a fancy style.
- WP:Humor, the talk page, and User:Operator873 were redirected to Never Gonna Give You Up with mysterious edit summaries
- However, the user page's rickroll virus was reverted
Sacred Keepy-Uppy things recorded
Today's rap battle is Keepy Uppy Balloon vs. Sacred Wombat!
Joke pages
- Wikipedia:2023 Wikipedia Razzies
- Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023, an inning of a baseball game played during the 2022 MLB season.
- Fenway Park naming dispute, an effort by baseball fans to push back against corporate renaming of stadiums.
- Mobile Offshore Abortion Clinic, an experiment of what localities offshore outside state boundaries is like
- Trumpet (Video Game), a game that follows the titular character Barrington Trumpet through his journey for inner peace.
- The Keepy Uppy Balloon, a special place for the keepy uppy balloon.
- At one point, some sacred wombats decided to add more balloons, they were all exterminated.
- Someone tried to pop the balloon, but the balloon was not popped.
- At one point, some sacred wombats decided to add more balloons, they were all exterminated.
- I'm Blue, a page with a spinning text that says "I'm Blue".
- We're Spinning Rainbows, a modified page with two spinning texts that say "I'm a Spinning Rainbow".
- Help:Buying Wikipedia! Now with a hint of lore!
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2103
- Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, the sad truth about a man only known because of Shohei Ohtani.
- VISIT WOMBATS' TEMPLE HERE Sacred Wombats' Temple [HERE]
- Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/No Deadline based on "Revolution 9"
Main Page
- Today's featured article is The Boring Lava Field, a volcanic field that became active 2.7 million years ago.
- Today's Picture of the day is the detail of the head of a Blue-footed booby in the Galapagos Islands
- The featured picture is a funny-looking self-portait of Richard Gerstl.
- The featured place is the University of Minnesota.
Serious business
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whopper was tagged with {{copyvio-revdel}} because the quoted song lyrics likely violated copyright policies.
Polls
XfDs
Other jokes
References
Available upon request.