Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

If you came here to vandalize or deface this page, please stop. This page is for listing April Fool's pranks carried around the site, not to play a prank on dozens of editors who are finding this vandal reverting tiresome and disruptive. If you violate policy, you can be blocked from editing.

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.

Miscellany for deletion

Redirects for discussion

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

Other requests

Requests for adminship

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

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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