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.

• 10:35 was nominated for deletion because the sum of its digits no longer exists.
• 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.
• 50,000 was nominated for deletion for tramumatic reasons.
• 7 was nominated for deletion for eating 9 and intimidating 6.
• 9 was nominated for deletion because it was eaten by 7.
• Adobe Flash was nominated for deletion because it's still broken as of 2021.
• Ampersand was nominated for deletion for copying Tally Hall.
• Apple Inc. was nominated for deletion for being a monopoly.
• Art museum was nominated for deletion as a much larger sequel to the previous nomination.
• Baby (Justin Bieber song) was nominated for deletion per the most disliked YouTube video of 2010.
• Barbenheimer was nominated for deletion; which one is better?
• Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning To many MARCH 31 PAGE NOISE SCREAMING 24/7 AND PAGES ALL THE TIME.
• Big Nate (TV series) was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+.
• Bliss (image) was nominated for deletion, with a similar image to boot (pun not intended).
• BonziBuddy was nominated for deletion for killing many people's computers.
• The Character Assistant chatbot from Character.ai nominated c.ai for deletion.
• Chelsea F.C and Manchester United F.C. were both nominated for deletion for being mid-table clubs.
• 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!
• Coyote vs. Acme was nominated for deletion for tax purposes.
• Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the first time.
• Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the next time.
• Disney was nominated for deletion because of fair use.
• Deletion of articles on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion as an attempt to end this joke practice.
• 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.
• Earth (song) was nominated for deletion because we wanted change.
• The Eras Tour was nominated for deletion because the nominator really wanted to go , but the tickets are too expensive.
• Exam was nominated for deletion for (seriously) real-life reasons.
• Example was nominated for deletion for Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
• 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.
• Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) was (Redacted)
• Friday (Rebecca Black song) was nominated for deletion because it was not Friday on 1 April 2011.
• Gemini (chatbot) was nominated for deletion. The nomination reads like something...
• Generation Alpha was nominated for deletion.
• 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".
• History was nominated for deletion on the grounds that the past is a hoax.
• Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
• Holden Caulfield was nominated for deletion for being a phony.
• Internet was nominated for deletion. What is the Internet anyway?
• Invisible was invisibly nominated for deletion.
• Kuru kuru...くるりん。
• 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.
• Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
• Myspace was nominated to be Zucc'd; surely nothing bad will happen to me on Facebook —some 2009 teen.
• Midas was nominated for deletion as the nominator was tired of all the gold. Unfortunately for the nomination page...
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pokémon Go was nominated for deletion for causing many traffic violence in 2017.
• Pizza Tower was nominated to be destoryed with Rats for spawning and running and everything is the noise to many rats testing with to many Brick and Gustavo time is annoying.
• 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.
• Red link was nominated for deletion because it shouldn't exist.
• 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.
• Super Meat Boy Forever was being cut on a meat griner a meat joke.
• Rotten egg was nominated for deletion because it was removed from the latest edition of BeanBoozled.
• School was nominated for deletion for the sake of the children!
• 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.
• 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.
• The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
• Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
• Vehicle registration plate was nominated for deletion as there is already have vehicle identification number.
• Waluigi was nominated for deletion in order to prevent Waluigi effect from happening.
• 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...
• 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 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.
• Yellowcake was nominated for deletion because it's not tasty. I think I have radiation poisoning.
• This PSA was nominated for deletion because I would pirate copyrighted content (not really, don't sue me), especially in 2005.
• 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.

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.

Redirects for discussion

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

• Sonic X Shadow Generations was nominated for deletion.

Templates for discussion

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

Other requests

Requests for adminship

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Fopks

Requested moves

• No true Scotsman → True Scotsman and True Scotsman → No true Scotsman
  • Could also swap Well poisoning and Poisoning the well.

    The day didn't started yet, as stated in the box above. Only ~5 hours left. Toadette ^{(April Fools Day!)} 19:33, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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 (not 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!
• Thebiguglyalien reveals his true intentions in editing Wikipedia as an extraterrestrial.
• Wesoree's userpage was invaded by penguins.
• ~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.
• 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.

Other pranks

Operation Radiance

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

Joke pages

• 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.
• Interstate 38 connecting Hawaii and California was opened.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletionAmpersand Was accidentally created 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
• Red Sea was turned into a sea of red.
• WP:October was updated to honor the continued existence of Halloween.

Main Page

• Today's picture of the day is Nelly Martyl, a french opera singer that participated in world premiers.
• Today's featured article is The Order of Brothelyngham, which was a gang of men that faked a religious order in Exton, Devon.
• In the did you know section, there was a fact that 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
• 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.

Other serious stuff

• Parts of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Déjà vu were redacted as a copyvio of song lyrics.

XFD poll

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