Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2024 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2024 (Part 2).

0-9

• 10:35 was nominated for deletion because the sum of its digits no longer exists.
• 2 was nominated for deletion per WP:BFDI and WP:TPOT
• 2023 and 2024 were nominated for deletion for containing overstimulating memes.
• 2024 United States presidential election was nominated for deletion for being another bad Hollywood remake of a classic.
• 2026 United States presidential election was nominated for deletion for being a hoax
• 24 was nominated for deletion because 25 is funnier. Why hasn't this been nominated yet until now?
• 4 was nominated for deletion per BFB harassment.
• 40 Wall Street was nominated for seizure to prevent Letitia James from getting it before we do.
• 5 (gum) was nominated for deletion for stimulating people's senses in dangerous ways.
• 50,000 was nominated for deletion for tramumatic reasons.
• 60 Minutes was nominated for deletion at 23:00 UTC.
• 7 was nominated for deletion for eating 9 and intimidating 6.
• 9 was nominated for deletion because it was eaten by 7.

A-F

• Adobe Flash was nominated for deletion because it's still broken as of 2021.
• Adopt Me! was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
• Ænglisċ wæs genemned wīdlāst.
• Alix Earle was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON because she isn't done getting ready with me yet.
• The Amazing Digital Circus was nominated for deletion because the nominator thought it was overrated.
• American English was nominated for deletion because British English is better.
• Ampersand was nominated for deletion for copying Tally Hall.
• Apple Inc. was nominated for deletion for being a monopoly.
• Arizona was nominated for deletion for the majority not observing Daylight Saving Time.
• Art museum was nominated for deletion as a much larger sequel to the previous nomination.
• Association football was nominated for deletion because football is better than soccer.
• Baby (Justin Bieber song) was nominated for deletion per the most disliked YouTube video of 2010.
• Bad Apple!! but it's a deletion nomination
• Barbenheimer was nominated for deletion; which one is better?
• Bathing was nominated for deletion because it's a waste of water and showering is better.
• Big Nate (TV series) was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+.
• Billy Ocean was nominated for deletion because everyone knows that Hugh Jackman was really the one behind "Caribbean Queen".
• Bliss (image) was nominated for deletion, with a similar image to boot (pun not intended).
• Bloons was nominated for deletion by someone who definitely isn't a balloon.
• Boeing was nominated for grounding since it just keeps falling apart.
• BonziBuddy was nominated for deletion for killing many people's computers.
• Brawlhalla was nominated for deletion because of annoying Mordex mains.
  • The result was Redirect to Korhalla, referencing the April Fools' joke from that community.
• CAPTCHA was nominated for deletion for assuming that I am a robot.
• Car was nominated for deletion because they clog up the parking lot.
• Central line (London Underground) was nominated for deletion because it's too hot, small, and unreliable. The Elizabeth line also goes to most of its stations so people can use this instead.
• Character.ai's Character Assistant chatbot nominated c.ai for deletion.
• Chelsea F.C and Manchester United F.C. were both nominated for deletion for being mid-table clubs.
• Chewing gum was nominated for deletion because it's difficult to remove from hair and fabric.
• Clam juice was nominated for deletion because mixing it with soy sauce causes a dangerous explosion.
• Cleveland was nominated for deletion timed exactly so that it would be gone during the four minutes of darkness.
• Clippy was nominated for deletion per WP:IDLI (it's super annoying, thank goodness it was completely removed in 2007)
• Color theory was nominated for deletion.
• Color was nominated for deletion because people edit war over color for no apparent reason.
• Cookie Monster was nominated for deletion because it is obviously unhealthy; this muppet even stole my cookies!
• COVID-19 pandemic was nominated for deletion because, who even remembers COVID?
• Coyote vs. Acme was nominated for deletion for tax purposes.
• Dallas Cowboys was nominated for nominated for deletion because everyone hates the Cowboys.
• Decimal was nominated for deletion because 9 is eaten by 7.
• Deepfake was nominated for deletion due to disinformation and defamation.
• Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the first time.
• Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the next time.
• Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the final time.
• Deletion of articles on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion as an attempt to end this joke practice.
• Dial-up Internet access was nominated for deletion last year, but was so slow it didn't submit until today.
• Disney was nominated for deletion because of fair use.
• Doki Doki Literature Club! was nominated for deletion as malware in my computer from 2018.
• Dollar Tree was nominated for deletion for raising its prices to a bad number of dollars and making the name of the store misleading.
• Dude, This Sucks was nominated for deletion per The Shower Rangers brainwashing the nominator into thinking the incident didn't happen.
• Duplication was nominated for deletion for duplication duplication.
  • note: there are two separate nominations, but one carries a Cyrillic O.
• For the 21st time, Earth was nominated for deletion.
• Earth (song) was nominated for deletion because we wanted change.
• Eddsworld was nominated for "!!A BIG ED Trumpet!!" It copied Ed Edd n Eddy like an Ed tall.
• The Eras Tour was nominated for deletion because the nominator really wanted to go , but the tickets are too expensive.
• Everything was nominated for deletion because everything must go!
• Exam was nominated for deletion for (seriously) real-life reasons.
• Example was nominated for deletion for Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
• Existence was nominated for deletion again per WP:NPOV and WP:V.
• The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+ and everyone hated this reboot.
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses was nominated for deletion in order to prevent three more years of Three Houses discourse.
• Flappy Bird was nominated for deletion because the bird app got hit by a pipe in 2014.
• Florida Man was nominated for deletion per not as much of a danger as Chicago, New York City, and Ohio.
• Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) was (Redacted)
• Friday (Rebecca Black song) was nominated for deletion because it was not Friday on 1 April 2011.

G-M

• Gas prices was nominated for deletion because of inflation within the economy.
• Gemini (chatbot) was nominated for deletion. The nomination reads like something...
• Generation Alpha was nominated for deletion.
• Warning: Central core is eighty percent corrupt.
• Goldfish was nominated for deletion because of their too short memory.
• Goldfish_(cracker) was nominated for deletion because they dont smile back.
• Grimace Shake was nominated for deletion per WP:DISRUPT and disruption of Chicago's transportation system.
• Hatsune Miku was nominated for deletion cuz "anime belongs in the trash".
• Heel was nominated for deletion by Achilles as a personal attack.
• Metra Heritage Corridor was nominated for deletion per being as frequent as its parallel Amtrak services.
• History was nominated for deletion on the grounds that the past is a hoax.
• Holden Caulfield was nominated for deletion for being a phony.
• Hololive was never an idol company to begin with.
• Holy Hell was nominated for deletion.
• Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
• Hornby Railways was nominated for deletion because its British Model Trains are too expensive.
• Horse was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• Hotel Mario toasts toast.
• HTTP 404 was not found.
  • note: this nom is basically the sequel to last year's nom
• Incivility was nominated for deletion for violating WP:CIVILITY.
• Internet was nominated for deletion. What is the Internet anyway?
• Invisible was invisibly nominated for deletion.
• Isles of Scilly was nominated for deletion for being Scilly.
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict was (Redacted)
• Jimmy Wales was nominated for deletion because he is part of the cabal.
• John Pesutto was nominated for deletion for wanting to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
• John Smith was nominated for deletion for possible violations of WP:SPAM.
• Kuru kuru...くるりん。
• Just Cause 3 was nominated for liberation
• Large language model was nominated for deletion for WP:BUZZWORD
• Leap Day was nominated for deletion because it only happens every 4 years, leading to a very slow process of information on this page.
• Letter (alphabet) was nominated for deletion since numbers are superior
• Level crossing was nominated for deletion per safety and Operation Lifesaver
• Lie was nominated for deletion as a hoax.
• Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
• Line 4 Sheppard was nominated for deletion because its too short and is recommended to be merged into Line 1 Yonge-University.
• List of brackish bodies of water was nominated for dilution because per WP:NOSALT, "salting is usually a bad idea".
• Loot box was nominated for deletion for being added to a chat app.
• Luigi was nominated for deletion for doing nothing
• Macaroni was nominated for deletion to put the glock-wielding penguins from last year under a diet.
• Maimai (video game series) was nominated for deletion for I can't play the game in Greater Toronto Area and I don't care how I'll wash my clothes.
• Mayonnaise was nominated for deletion because it was all used up on a certain customer's burger.
• Melbourne Airport was nominated for deletion because they don't want a rail link
• Metroid Prime Fore was nominated for deletion.
• Mewtwo was nominated for deletion as an unnecessary fork of Mew.
• Mojibake was nominated for deletion because 何ã‹ãŠã‹ã—ã„ã§ã™ã€‚
• Microsoft Copilot was nominated for deletion because it killed Cortana.
• Midas was nominated for deletion as the nominator was tired of all the gold. Unfortunately for the nomination page...
• Midland Main Line was nominated for deletion because the Great Central Main Line was a far better, faster route than it, but the Great Central line closed.
• Miles "Tails" Prower was nominated for deletion because Tails is too cute.
• The nominator threw the Holy Hand Grenade at the Murder Drones and immediately escaped.
• Moral turpitude was nominated for deletion because the nominator's friend was punished for said topic.
• Myspace was nominated to be Zucc'd; surely nothing bad will happen to me on Facebook —some 2009 teen.

N-S

• Newman was nominated for deletion for being pure evil.
• Nick Studio 10 was nominated for deletion because Nick did it!
• Nijisanji was nominated for deletion because it's just a joke.
• Fill in the blank: Norfolk Southern, what's your function?   nomination here  
• Nudity was nominated for deletion by a panicked kindergarten teacher.
• Oatmeal was nominated for deletion because it feels like and has the texture of vomit.
• Online advertising was nominated for deletion per WP:Advertising.
• /Ohio will be eliminated.
• Optus was nominated for deletion because of the 2022 data breach and 2023 outage.
• Palworld was DESTORY THIS GAME SUCKS RIP OFF POKEMON
• Paramount+ was nominated for deletion because they purged a bunch of shows last week.
• Password and its game were nominated for deletion per overly complicated rules.
• Penguin was nominated for deletion because apparently they planned a military invasion of the nominator's userpage.
• Persona 3 Reload was nominated for deletion per WP:RUMOUR (We think the nominator is mad at Atlus because they didn't added Kotone Shiomi into the downloadable content (DLC))
• Pink was nominated for deletion because it is nowhere on the visible spectrum.
• Pizza Rat was nominated for deletion because I think it moved to Chicago after 2016 and made a hole on the sidewalk.
• Plagiarism was nominated for deletion due to fear of an Hbomberguy video.
• Planking (fad) was nominated for deletion because it needs one final send-off after being phased out 12 years ago.
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was nominated for deletion per WP:NONSENSE.
• Politics was nominated for deletion because it is biased to cover the most recent political fad.
• Pokémon Go was nominated for deletion for causing many traffic violence in 2016.
• Procrastination, after nearly a year, was finally nominated for deletion because the nominator was agitated that they had to wait a year for said deletion.
• Quantity was nominated for deletion as an important reminder for April Foolers here.
• Raid: Shadow Legends was nominated for deletion per WP:NOADS, especially on YouTube videos in 2020.
• Rainbow Road (Mario Kart) was nominated for deletion because the nominator has fallen off of it far too many times.
• A Really Haunted Loud House was nominated for deletion because The Casagrandes Movie from the same franchise was way too good and managed to blow this movie out of a geyser.
• Red link was nominated for deletion because it shouldn't exist.
• Red Sea was nominated for deletion because it isn’t red.
• (Redacted) was (Redacted) per (Redacted)
• Redirect was nominated for deletion as redirects takes onger time to reach the site.
• Remote work was nominated for deletion per I want to bike everywhere in 2022!
• Roblox death sound was oof'd; I quit Roblox in 2023.
• Robot was nominated for deletion because wang jingwei ran an robot army in nanjing, eleifend and turned into a pillow.
• Rock paper scissors was nominated for deletion. If the original challenger of the game loses three times the page will be deleted.
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• Rotten egg was nominated for deletion because it was removed from the latest edition of BeanBoozled.
• Scam and Spam were nominated for SPAM
• School was nominated for deletion for the sake of the children!
• SCP Foundation was nominated for deletion because [REDACTED]
• Shrek was nominated for deletion so people will stop saying "Shrek is l__e."
• Sigma male was nominated for deletion for having e^(i*pi) level rizz.
• Skibidi Toilet was nominated for deletion because the brainrot was too much for the site to handle.
• Smiling Friends were nominated for deletion for failing their jobs.
• SNICK was nominated for deletion for forcing kids to do gross and unsanitary dares that could get them sick.
• SOPA and PIPA were nominated for deletion per censorship masquerading as "more copyright protection"; we literally had to go on strike for one day in 2012...
• Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was nominated for deletion because C.Q. Cumber did not want me to take Chicago's passenger rail system.
• Starry (drink) was nominated for deletion for being responsible for screwing Mountain Dew Pitch Black's distribution in the beginning of last year.
• Streisand effect was nominated for deletion, although this caused a streisand effect itself by bringing more attention to it.
• Stonehenge was nominated for deletion so that it can be replaced with something more useful, like a Walmart.

T-Z

• The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
• This article never existed in the first place.
• TikTok was nominated for deletion again to accommodate with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
• Trading was nominated for deletion because it was removed in Rocket League during the Patch Notes v2.36 update.
• Turn It On Again was nominated for deletion because someone wanted Phil to turn it off.
• Twister (game) was nominated for deletion, with "players" taking turns trying to play it on a wikitable.
• Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
• United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
• University of Michigan was nominated for deletion for Jim Harbaugh's violations of the Espionage Act.
• USS Gyatt was nominated for (Redacted)
• Unity (game engine) Unity error runtime coding errors grow up to use this engine ha ha.
• Vehicle registration plate was nominated for deletion as there is already have vehicle identification number.
• Velma (TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT
  • But did anyone who doesn't work as a corporate higherup at Warner Bros. Discovery think it was a good show to begin with?
• Waluigi was nominated for deletion in order to prevent Waluigi effect from happening.
• Water supply was nominated for deletion because I poisoned it.
• We're Lalaloopsy was nominated for deletion because a bunch of characters from the preceding series were cut off and half of the original Lalaloopsies never showed up.
• Webdriver Torso was nominated for deletion as a clear test article.
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• We Didn't Start the Fire was nominated for deletion because we clearly did...
• Wii wheel was nominated for deletion for being slower than other methods of driving.
• Wikipedia was nominated for deletion in order to delete Wikipedia while the reader is on this page, causing a loophole.
• William Shakespeare was nominated for deletion because the nominator is fed up with being taught his works in school.
• Windows 8 was nominated for deletion as it was too confusing to use as PC users in 2013.
• Windows 10 was nominated for deletion as 7 had to eat 9 for this OS's creation.
• Windows 95 was nominated for deletion for plagiarising Windows95man.
• Windows Mistake Edition was nominated for deletion as per its end of support in 2006.
• Winter was nominated for deletion because I don't like it as a Chicagoan.
• X was nominated for deletion because some people still call the social media app Twitter.
• Xenoblade Chronicles was nominated for deletion per violations of WP:CRYSTALBALL.
• Yahoo! Answers was nominated for deletion because it's been dead for almost three years and has been succeeded by better Q&A sites.
• Yellowcake was nominated for deletion because it's not tasty. I think I have radiation poisoning.
• "Yo mama" jokes were disallowed by an edit filter, but was interrupted by XBOX LIVE.
• This PSA was nominated for deletion because I would pirate copyrighted content (not really, don't sue me), especially in 2005.
• Your Lie in April and its film adaptation were nominated for deletion with earlier reason as Kaori never actually died, but the nominator ASAP told that both violated WP:BLP.
• YouTube poop was nominated for deletion per the 2008 version of a dumpster fire we have now.
• YouTube Rewind was nominated for deletion per being the worst YouTube video of the 2010s by April 2019.
• Zzyzx, California was nominated for deletion for having a nonsensical name.

Categories for discussion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/April Fool's Day 2024.

Files for discussion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Files for discussion/April Fools' Day 2024.

Miscellany for deletion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion § April Fools' Day 2024.

• Epicgenius was nominated for deletion for failing to run for adminship, and thus, being a WP:NETNEGATIVE to the whole project. Shameful!
• Special:DeletePage was nominated for deletion because every page deserves to be kept.
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was was nominated for deletion for a fourth time because it is a bad policy
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (21st nomination) was nominated for deletion for being unfunny.
• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules was nominated for deletion due to salt, pepper, and aliens.
• Wikipedia:Vandalism was nominated for deletion because vandalism is bad.
• Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? was nominated for deletion because apparently we are all BFDI fans.

Redirects for discussion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/April Fools' Day 2024.

• BFDI was nominated for deletion
• British SSR was nominated for deletion
• Grrl was also nominated for deletion
• pht was nominated for deletion
• Sonic X Shadow Generations was nominated for deletion.

Templates for discussion

For its log, see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/April Fools' Day 2024.

• Template:Uw-blockindef was nominated for deletion for being so rude.

Users for deletion

• User:Xingqiu Viator nominated himself for deletion.

Other requests

Articles for creation

• O'Hare Service was nominated for creation as per desperation to increase NCS frequency, especially between Downtown Chicago and the most important airport in Chicago.

Requests for adminship

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Fopks
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Requests for comment

• Wikipedia talk:How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?#Lightbulbs for Replacement (LfR) discussion

Requested moves

• No true Scotsman → True Scotsman and True Scotsman → No true Scotsman
  • Could also swap Well poisoning and Poisoning the well
• Your mom → Your mom goes to college

User page pranks

A typical platform sign on Metra, located on Flossmoor station

• In most nominations, AlphaBeta135's signature resembled a Metra platform sign: AlphaBeta135 _talk
  • The title of AlphaBeta135's user page also resembled a Metra platform sign.
  • P.S. this user was never endorsed by Metra and the Regional Transportation Authority.
• Lovable98158's userpage was slammed by two whales and a trout, and the font was changed to webdings.
• Melecie's userpage was put under a premium subscription.
• Misc Practice put the lyrics of The Ballad of the Sneak as a marqueed scroll, rotated his user page and skewed his userboxes.
• Planetberaure rotated his userpage 5 degrees because he was feeling a bit tilted.
• The storm of Silver the Hedgehogs returned to User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki and replaced the Whisper the Wolf symbol there because she didn't have time to come up with a new userpage prank.
• Turns out AlphaBetaGamma's claims of being a Japanese was a lie! He was proud Michigan resident all along!
  • It is unconfirmed whether he was helping Jim Harbaugh's surveillance empire before his suspension.
• Thebiguglyalien reveals his true intentions in editing Wikipedia as an extraterrestrial.
• Wesoree's userpage was invaded by penguins.
  • He later parked his ES44AC locomotive to stop the penguins from advancing further.
• Wesoree's sandbox was filled with sand.
• ~eltaday eplacedray eirthay userpageway's exttay ithway Igpay Atinlay. (translation: ~delta replaced their userpage's text with Pig Latin.)
• That Tired Tarantula's user page exploded and was raccoon and Comic Sans-ified.
• Ryanisgreat4444's opening part of his user page was covered in white.
• Mod creator has lots of things to read about, and was Tl;dr so there's nothing :)
• HistoryTheorist got April Fool'd
• Disoneiscool8745 ich bin nach Deutchland gegangen und spreche jetzt Deutch (Translation: Disoneiscool8745 went to Germany and now speaks German).
• Azeem1Hadzrie joined the April Fools' day thing again, replacing almost all the text shown with a gullible message about looking for life.
• WhoAteMyButter's death ray isn't working.
• LilianaUwU switched her header picture to an obviously superior bus.
• Toadette replace all content from their userpage and replaced to two trouts and an emergency user slap (in case Toadette gets out of control....). Soon, they will disrupt this page with a single key soon...........................
• Xeroctic revealed himself to be a brachyphage.
• Qadri223 was sarcastic, thought to have depression, bipolar disorder, and probably, the schizophrenia. He quoted that "[he] loves Revival", although it is critically panned. Maybe he has the point.
• TidalTreka's userpage was corrupted by ransomware.
• MemeGod27's userpage was g̵̩̿͐i̴̢̘̎b̵̫̈́̕b̸̨͆e̴̛̞̗͘r̴͔̦̆̉ȉ̸̝̿s̵͖̋̑h̸̝̆̊ified. His PC exploded upon opening his page.
• QuicoleJR's userpage was set on fire. So was his talk page.

  Both were later extinguished by another user, with the side effect of flooding them.

  The flood on the talk page was taken care of, but the water caught on fire on the user page.

• NasssaNser used unique per-page signatures when participating in deletion discussions.
• TheTechie left a special message on some user talk pages...
  • ...and he received an appropriate special message for himself.
• Ipatrol's user page got destroyed by the cabal (permalink). And then the same happened to Ivyclaw33 (permalink). Then to Jimbo Wales, of all people (permalink).

UPDATE: After April Fools jokes on Jimbo's user page got reverted several times, "offending" users were warned with an oddly similar warning template... (1 2)

• Panini! did nothing. He didn't feel like it this year.
• Sebbers10 broke free the the cause of Doomsday.
• Jimbo Wales Turned into a whale.
• User:Ixtal was turned into an earthworm. Do you still love her?

  She then evolved.

  And then lost

• User:Duckmather flipped his userpage upside down and styled it in Comic Sans.
• User:InvadingInvader was invaded.
• Pythoncoder put a giant image of a non-python animal on his userpage
• Four needed to channel out his anger towards this AfD, so he possessed 3PPYB6 to carry out his master plan!

Other pranks

Operation Radiance

Main page: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024/Operation Radiance

Joke pages

• Wikipedia:BALEETED was created which is a redirect of a redirect...redirect-ception
• Cincinnati Reds–Oakland Athletics bottom of the 1st inning on April 29, 2023, an inning of a baseball game played during the 2023 MLB season.
• Down Goes Anderson, a 2023 amateur fight between two baseball players.
• Interstate 38 connecting Hawaii and California was opened.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletionAmpersand Was accidentally created with the April fools AFD template in an attempt to nominate Ampersand for deletion.
• A Parking Lot has appeared!
  • Someone had a big car and took all of the parking spots. Then they all got towed.
    • An IP user expanded the parking lot
      • The Keepy Uppy Balloon and the WikiWombat both appeared
        • An Airbus A380 parked in the parking lot, but was destroyed by a bazooka.
          • The Airbus parked again. Then it died again.
            • There is another Airbus A380 parked in another parking lot.
        • The two former foes stared at each other, both reminiscing the Splatfest the previous year.
        • The municipality's parking minimum laws mandated the addition of a significant number of parking spaces; so the parking lot was promptly expanded.
          • These parking minimum laws were later repealed; extra spacing was then closed in favor of redevelopment due to lack of revenue.
        • Right after that, 6 Pokémon Jets parked in the parking lot.
        • someone parked a miku bike in the parking lot and started blasting miku songs
        • A vortex appeared!
        • Super Mario has reserved a space for his kart
        • THE BATTLE BUSES HAVE LANDED
        • THE SCHWIMMWAGEN HAS ARRIVED
        • A train appeared!
        • A Bean Car appeared
        • Someone parked their extremely dirty house
        • April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024/Parking Lot has been vandalized by the Willy on wheels
          • Not anymore!
            • As of 10:46pm UTC (6:46pm EDT), the parking lot is now full!
• Red Sea was turned into a sea of red.
  • Similar actions were taken to preserve the Blue Nile
• WP:October was updated to honor the continued existence of Halloween.
• Melecie created a userscript to set the font of joke pages like this to Comic Sans.
• Panini! dares you to try and find all of his secret guestbooks.
• * A request for botship page and a request for foundership page were opened.
  • AlphaBeta135 is the first to be nominated for botship
  • 2003 LN6 was also nominated for botship
• A page coauthored by Billy the Puppet opened to discuss the best generation of gaming consoles
• The
• Deepsea Metro from Splatoon 2 DLC
• Upside-down cake is turned right side up
• Cession of the Russian Federation to Burkina Faso

Miscellaneous

• This page was tilted for five minutes.
• Kuru's nomination was tilted.
• A secret message was added to the Sandbox.
  • The Sandbox was seized by the FBI.
    • Then by the UN. but was stopped by QuicoleJr
      • in-between this, the page was invaded by a gallery of cats
• WikiProject Wikipedia was tagged for being non-neutral and having a conflict of interest.
• The Example User was reported to UAA for having a misleading username.
• The page Wikipedia:Rules for Fools's display title became all colorful...speaking of a prank on a prank documentation...
• The Criteria for speedy deletion is itself nominated for speedy deletion because inclusionism is the superior philosophy and nothing should ever be deleted from Wikipedia.
• As if the CSD page didn't get enough, the nutshell section on that page got changed to "Criteria of Speedy Deletion"...very explanatory.
• WP:SPEEDY was changed to point to Porsche 911. Well, it is a speedy car. Also, WP:101 was changed to point to US 101, and WP:SLOW was changed to point to snail because, well, I guess snails ARE slow. And that's not it: WP:HAHA was changed to point to WP:HAHA, thereby creating an infinite redirect. Well, I guess that is a funny redirect.

Main Page

The Dom Luis I bridge, today's featured photo from Wikimedia Commons

Artist's impression of a ray cat

Mugshot of Pep

• Today's picture of the day is Nelly Martyl, a French opera singer that participated in world premiers.
• Today's other featured picture shows a view of the Dom Luís I Bridge in Porto, Portugal during the blue hour
• Today's featured article is The Order of Brothelyngham, which was a gang of men that faked a religious order in Exton, Devon.
• There are a couple of facts in the did you know section.
  • The Charm quark made physicists eat hats.
    • There was also a fact on how you can get sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing a cookie.
      • There is another fact that a blizzard ended the Cold War.
        • There is another fact that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history
          • There was another fact that ur mom has an 11 second scream
            • The order of the top two facts were randomized so that the DYK-picture alternates between a ray cat and an innocent dog.
              • Color-changing cats could help us communicate with the future
              • Pep The dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary
• On this day in 1969, The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
• Today's List features the anthropodermic bibliopegy, which was the most popular practice that peaked in the 19th century. Taken from the list of books bound in human skin
• The featured place is Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Other serious stuff

• Parts of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Déjà vu were redacted as a copyvio of song lyrics.
• A nomination about Israel was speedy deleted.
• Mainspace joke page Cloning 2 was nominated for speedy deletion.

XFD poll

The 2024 poll can be found here. Voting will open at 00:00 UTC on April 2.

Sandbox

A certain hedgehog master turned the sandbox into sand.

"Mr. Administrator, Manual of Style is not an actual person, Manual of Style is the Cabal's policy!"