Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

Pre-April 1st pranks

• In the days (and month) before April Fools, the "Do Not Edit" notice was modified from "tomfoolery" to "pranking", then to "pranking/tom/jerryfoolery", and then to "*foolery", and then a reference to last year’s edit war, before being reworded to avoid further edit warring.
• On March 20, this page was vandalized with the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up (the revisions have since been deleted due to copyright).
• 3 hours before April 1st UTC, the other pranks section was pre-emptively renamed "The section name people will probably still fight over" foolery.
• Also, 3 hours before April 1st, “Pre-April 1st pranks” was changed to “Pre-March 32nd pranks”, with several other variants intermittently appearing once April 1st hit.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

• Several coronavirus-related nominations, which were quickly closed.
• This discussion wants you to join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement!
• Emmanuel Goldstein was nominated for doublespeedwise rectification for crimethink.
• South Park was nominated for deletion
• Madden NFL 08 was nominated for deletion>, because it's not awesome, baby!
• Nintendo Switch is nominated because were out of stock.
• Scots language is nominated for deletion.
• 2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 are nominated for deletion per WP:BALL and WP:TOOSOON.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is nominated for deletion.
• Fake news is nominated because of obvious reasons.
• Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man is nominated for deletion per "Fuck you, I do what I want".
• WhatsApp is nominated for deletion because the user texted his grandpa something, and he just responded with "Moo".
• Berlin Brandenburg Airport is nominated for deletion because it is cheaper to tear it down and build it from scratch.
• List of Pokémon was nominated for deletion due to having too many Pokemon in the dex.
• Crystal ball was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL.
• Scientology was nominated for deletion.
• Milli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because "they never really existed".
• New Zealand was nominated for deletion.
• Stanford University was nominated for deletion.
• Bernie Sanders was nominated for deletion per WP:DIDNOTWIN.
• Donald Trump was nominated for deletion because the US would be better without him.
• Earth was nominated for deletion again. It's the 11th nomination.
• Junius Ho was nominated for deletion.
• Circle was nominated for deletion again per WP:CIRCULAR.
• Sun Yang was nominated for deletion for cheating.
• Impeachment of Donald Trump was nominated for deletion as a redundant fork of Witch hunt.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets was nominated for deletion.
• Nana Mizuki and two other voice actresses were nominated for deletion.
• Kitten was nominated for deletion because cuteness does not equate to notability.
• Haruhi Suzumiya was nominated for deletion extermination.
• Arsenal FC was nominated for deletion for supporting China's separatism.
• Anglo-Zanzibar War was nominated for deletion for being too short.
• Hua Chunying was nominated for deletion.
• Nickelback was nominated for deletion per WP:GARAGE.
• Pizza Hut was nominated for deletion because Domino's is so much better.
• Michael Bloomberg and other candidates were nominated for deletion.
• Ping was nominated for deletion. Pong!
• XFL (2020) was nominated for deletion for being canceled.
• Airbus A380 was nominated for deletion because "the plane is too big and too expensive to be operated economically".
• Square was nominated for deletion per WP:POINTY.
• Finland was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
• List of star systems within 20–25 light-years was nominated for deletion for being POV.
• Space Launch System was nominated for deletion for being a waste of time and money.
• Uranus was nominated for deletion so that people will no longer !vote to redirect to it.
• Wheel was nominated for deletion per WP:WILLY.
• Evil was nominated for deletion for obvious reasons.
• BanG Dream! was nominated for deletion by a rival Love Live! fan.
• Stanley Kubrick was nominated for deletion to "settle the infobox issue once and for all".
• Flybe was nominated for deletion for going out of business.
• French language was nominated for deletion. Everything, including the page title, is in French.
  • Spanish language was also nominated for deletion.
• Sakura Kinomoto was nominated for deletion for being her birthday.
• Calabasas, California was nominated for deletion because of Kobe Bryant.
• 2019–20 NBA season was nominated for deletion for being canceled.
• 2020 was nominated for deletion because the year has been a disaster.
• George S. Patton slapping incidents was nominated for deletion because SLAP SLAP SLAP.
• E3 2020 was nominated for deletion for being cancelled.
• Thanos was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia administrators was nominated for deletion to get rid of them.
• Lutetium was nominated for deletion for lack of applications.
• Morning was PRODded for being too soon given morning does not come until tomorrow.

Redirects for discussion

• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/April 1 2020#User:InvalidOS/A Recursive Redirect

Other requests

Requests for adminship

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll#MJL: April 1, 2020
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Xaosflux 2

Requests for de-adminship

• Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship/Can I Log In

Requests for de-censorship

• Wikipedia_virus_beats_censorship. However this was obviously unapproved so it was changed to a self-redirect instead.

Requested moves

• Joe Strummer → Joe Guitarist
• Milton Keynes Dons F.C. → Milton Keynes Aberdonians F.C.
• Earth → United States of America

The Third and Fifth Hour of The Today Show

• The main April Fools' day page has been completely obliterated.
  • Shortly after midnight, “Pre-March 32nd pranks” became Pre-February 61st pranks, then Pre-January 72 pranks, then Pre-January 18,352nd 1970, a reference to the Unix Epoch.
  • The page had CSS changes applied to it:
    • Rotated by 1, 45, 90, 135, 359, and 359.5 degrees.
    • Skewed multiple times
  • We pranked ourselves thinking that this April Fools wasn't going to devolve into literal chaos within 3 hours.
    • Too many people are stuck at home right now, with nothing to do but edit war on this page. We are doomed.
  • An escape page was created to dodge the 3hr of madness, here. (Archived. Do not edit.)
• Someone noticed that April Fools jokes are allowed on a large chunk of the site, except for this April Fool's page, where it is now strictly forbidden.
• The links to each April Fools' archive on the main April Fools page got replaced with "April Tools Day".
• Jimbo became Wales
  • It seemed funny at the time, until someone had fully locked it.
    • Someone decided to call out Jimbo Wales for being a sockpuppet of Jimmy Wales.
• Pythoncoder blanked his user page as a prank.
• A proposal at the Village Pump asked for a new protection level to be created that allowed edits only by IPs.
• At WikiProject Vital Articles, a proposal was made to add a small town in Montana to the level 1 list.
• A stub article for an extinct Hawaiian land snail was nominated to be a featured article.

  After some initial confusion, it seems to be on track to pass.

• Somebody changed the link to this page on this page to a duplicate of this same article, where it stayed for 30 minutes.

• It got nominated for speedy deletion per CSD A10.

• Then it got removed of all documentation to give off the illusion that there hasn’t been anything done during that day.

• It was then requested that the title of that page be changed to Egg.

• AlexKiddo16 has modified his page with a modified Protegent rap and a cut-off Simpsons logo.
• User:Cyberbot I was... um...
• uhh, who rickrolled morning?
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• A user is angry that other users prevented him from claiming Luo Tianyi as his waifu. 🎵🎸
• Skew was skewed. This still hasn't been reverted and it's noon in UTC time.
• Apparently Pages can contract COVID-19, And this page has too.
• One user pledged "not to go after her" as Wikipe-tan. Oh no we won't!

Section for the no fun people

• Genuine request for Page Protection of main April Fools' day page
• History repeated himself and poor quarantined Wikipedia editors had to create a new Edit War page due to the edit war of this section's title.
• Some people didn't like the EU being told to fuck off 17 million times at WP:DYK

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