Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

Pre-April 1st

• 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.

Post-April 1st

• The "Final Prank" was made and immediately removed.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 April 1 § April Fools' Day nominations

• Several coronavirus-related nominations, which were quickly closed.
  • A lot of nominations (and terrible jokes) involving living persons, fictional characters, politicians and sportspeople were G3'd, G6'd and G10'd.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special:RecentChanges was nominated for deletion because vandals were subject to the policies and guidelines on April 1st, 2020.
• 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.
  • The result was "Oh my god, they killed the article!"
• Madden NFL 08 was nominated for deletion, because it's not awesome, baby!
  • The result was awesome.
• Nintendo Switch is nominated because were out of stock.
  • Luckily the result was restocked.
• Scots language is nominated for deletion.
• 2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 are nominated for deletion per WP:BALL and WP:TOOSOON.
  • The result was sumbit too ealy, closed too late.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is nominated for deletion.
• Fake news is nominated because of obvious reasons.
  • The result was fake nomination.
• Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man was nominated for deletion per "Fuck you, I do what I want".
  • The result was didn't feel so good.
• WhatsApp was nominated for deletion because the user texted his grandpa something, and he just responded with "Moo".
  • The result was "Moo".
• Berlin Brandenburg Airport is nominated for deletion because it is cheaper to tear it down and build it from scratch.
  • The result was burn it.
• List of Pokémon was nominated for deletion due to having too many Pokemon in the dex.
  • The result was redirecting to Digimon.
• Crystal ball was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL.
  • It took him hours and hours to climb back to the top of the cliff, but from where he stood the view was remarkable.
• Scientology was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was sued by the Movementarian Church.
• Milli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because "they never really existed".
  • The result was "you know it is".
• New Zealand was nominated for deletion for reading the "Maps without New Zealand" subreddit too much.
  • The result was always missing.
• Donald Trump was nominated for deletion.
  • The AfD page was deleted under the subject of a serious MfD.
• Earth was nominated for deletion again. It's the 11th nomination.
• Circle was nominated for deletion again per WP:CIRCULAR.
• Impeachment of Donald Trump was nominated for deletion as a redundant fork of Witch hunt.
  • The result was expunged by Congress.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets was nominated for deletion.
• Nana Mizuki and two other voice actresses were nominated for deletion to protect the rights of Anglo-dubbers.
  • The result was the dubbers takes it all.
• Kitten was nominated for deletion because cuteness does not equate to notability.
  • The result was meow.
• Haruhi Suzumiya was nominated for deletion extermination for being a ripoff of Doctor Who.
  • The result was "Simpsons did it!"
• Arsenal FC and the Houston Rockets were nominated for deletion for "supporting China's separatism".
  • The result was "they didn't get it 'cause they didn't read the news".
• Anglo-Zanzibar War was nominated for deletion for being too short.
• Nickelback was nominated for deletion per WP:GARAGE.
  • The result was free Nickelback album for all the participants.
• Pizza Hut was nominated for deletion because Domino's is so much better.
  • The result was vnoid.
• Michael Bloomberg and other candidates were nominated for deletion.
  • The result was tired of politician jokes.
• 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.

• Result was redirect to Geometry Dash.

• Finland was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
  • The result was den nomination som ingen kan komma överens om.
    • Swedish for "the nomination that nobody can agree on". (Finnish version missing)
• 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.
  • The result was THE IDOLM@ASTER TAKEOVER.
• 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.
  • Same result as "No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man".
• Wikipedia administrators was nominated for deletion to get rid of them.
  • The result was 'you cant't get rid of them until you talk to Jimbo.
• Lutetium was nominated for deletion for lack of applications.
• Morning was PRODded for being too soon given morning does not come until tomorrow.
• Sonic hedgehog was too slow. It is not the real Sonic!
• The truth was nominated for deletion.
• Kiss was nominated for deletion in compliance with social distancing.
• Homestuck stopped being canon and was nominated for deletion for its own irrelevance.
• 7 was nominated for deletion, for being a menace to society.
• Log was nominated for deletion, but a page got in the way, so that was also nominated for deletion.
• Windows 10 Mobile was nominated for deletion as nobody uses it.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was listed at articles for deletion, which then the nomination is listed at articles for deletion, which in turn got listed at articles for deletion, and so on. (Eventually the joke got stale and anything deeper than five got deleted per WP:G6)
• Imaginary number was nominated for deletion for not being real.
• Bill Wurtz was nominated for deletion due to possibly not existing.
• Captain Marvel (2019 film) was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Democracy was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTDEMOCRACY.
  • Fewer voter turnouts in this nomination.

Redirects for discussion

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

Other requests

Requests for adminship

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

Requests for de-adminship

• User:Can I Log In/Requests for de-adminship/Can I Log In (moved from Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship/Can I Log In)

Requests for bureaucratship

• ZLEA
• 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63

Requests for de-censorship

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

Requests for foundership

• User:Jcoolbro/Request for Foundership

Requested Moves

• Joe Strummer → Joe Guitarist
• Milton Keynes Dons F.C. → Milton Keynes Aberdonians F.C.
• Earth → United States of America
• Dick Vitale → It's Awesome Baby!
• Wikipedia:April Fools → Wikipedia:Birthday of Otto von Bismarck

Featured Article Candidates

• Amastra subsoror, an extinct Hawaiian land snail (after some initial confusion, it seems to be on track to pass)

Vital Article Candidates

• Twin Bridges, Montana, a town of several hundred people, was nominated as a Vital 1 article.

Other Pranks / Discussion about what the final title for this header should be

• The main April Fools' day page was completely obliterated.
  • There is an El Chapulín Colorado reference.
  • 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, and 2.01π radians.
    • Skewed multiple times
  • Two users started playing chess, which resulted in Epicgenius defeating Upsidedown Keyboard by moving twice.
  • 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.
• Amidst all the crazy changes to this page in the first three hours, the Silly Things template, which is visible on this page, had an entry added for 1941 April Fools' Day. It lasted a full two hours, from 00:34 to 02:34.
• 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.
  • And later replaced it with the contents of User:Jimbo Wales.
• 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?
• _. . ..._ . ._. _,_. _,_,_ _. _. ._ _,_. .. ..._ . _._,_ _,_,_ .._ .._ ._,_. _. . ..._ . ._. _,_. _,_,_ _. _. ._ ._.. . _ _._,_ _,_,_ .._ _... _,_,_ ._,_ _. (the morse code from the edit war) translates to "Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down"
• A user is angry that other users prevented him from claiming Luo Tianyi as his waifu. 🎵🎸
• No one noticed as of 13:00 UTC that a template has been changed.
• Skew was skewed. It was finally righted at 17:56 UTC.
• Apparently Pages can contract COVID-19, And this page has too.
  • Obviously the editor for the earlier statement did not manage to find the hidden Wikipedia line of immunity near the top of the page.
• One user pledged "not to go after her" as Wikipe-tan. Oh no we won't!
• Template:AprilFoolsNotice's training video was temporaily about Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
  • another was about a Super Mario 64 hack.
    • the other was about SCP-062.
      • All the videos are now in a playlist linked in the header message.
• User:CrazyMinecart88's user page crashed.
• Some one added the bio of a my Hero Academia character to this section.
• RayCrisis was renamed to RayCism per WP:COmmONNAmE
• Xevious was noted as being a terrible game.
• User talk:Epicgenius was bOmbED
• The random infobox was slightly recolored and renamed
• This statement is false.
• this section is now Comic Sans
  • Not anymore!
• m's and b's have taken over
• User:ToxiBoi was skewed, warned, and participated in LTA in one day.
• User:ToxiBoi~pub is no longer the best squad and is established as a paid editor.
  • In addition to that, their page was promptly fool-y protected due to COI issues on their user page (diff).
    • Does me adding this sequence here count as COI?
• Yellow text added
  • Made it impossible to read, replaced with purple
    • Now it's Back in Black.
• Getting a bunch of Wikipedians to edit an article with jokes is very reminiscent of giving randos on a Minecraft server the power of console commands. All of a sudden it's raining monsters, houses are being cloned and superimposed on other objects, TNT is being spawned... good times.
• There were lots of smart speaker-editing in that day.

Not fun things

• Genuine request for Page Protection of main April Fools' day page
• History repeated itself 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 17 Million Fuck Offs at WP:DYK
• Someone created a proposal to community ban Jimbo but it got deleted.
• A user receives TROUT for creating a community ban proposal and an WP:SPI case as a joke.
• Several users were warned about contributing to the insanity.
• The coronavirus pandemic in general.
• An RfC to improve April Fools' being held here.
  • An RfC to improve April Fools' being drafted here.

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