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Let the jokes begin!

And happy twenty years of April Fools Day pranks on Wikipedia!

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

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
was
nominated for deletion a second time
because 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.~~

Redirects for discussion

Templates for discussion

Users for deletion

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.

Deletion review

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

Requested moves

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

A request was made for images of living things to be sized respective to the subject's fatness.

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
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.
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

Serious notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

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}}.
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)[reply]
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.
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.
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
- Nineteen years later (Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2122)
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.

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