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* [[Twin Bridges, Montana]], a town of several hundred people, was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Vital_articles/Level/1 nominated as a Vital 1 article].
* [[Twin Bridges, Montana]], a town of several hundred people, was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Vital_articles/Level/1 nominated as a Vital 1 article].


== listen to living colour!== ==
== Other pranks ==
* The main April Fools' day page has been completely obliterated.
* 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 [[Never Gonna Give You Up|Unix Epoch]].
** 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 [[Never Gonna Give You Up|Unix Epoch]].

Revision as of 00:00, 2 April 2020

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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.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

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

Miscellany for deletion

Redirects for discussion

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Requests for adminship

Requests for de-adminship

Requests for bureaucratship

Requests for de-censorship

Requests for foundership

Requested Moves

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Vital Article Candidates

Other pranks

  • 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
    • 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
  • Pythoncoder blanked his user page as a prank.
  • 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
  • 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.

Not fun things

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1st Living and Sentient Encyclopedic Infobox Prime Minister
In office
April 1, 2020 – April 2, 2020
Nominated byLegendoftheGoldenAges85
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded bySelf-referential Diagram
1st Supreme Infobox
In office
January 30, 2014 – Incumbent
Preceded byOffice established
Acting Suspicious
In office
January 30, 1702 [O.S. January 19, 1701] – April 1, 2020
Preceded byLegendoftheGoldenAges85
Succeeded byLegendoftheGoldenAges85
Acting Completely Normal
In office
January 1, 1901 – April 1, 2020
Acting
Preceded byLegendoftheGoldenAges85
Succeeded byOffice abolished
3rd/2nd/6th Ambassador of Time Travel to the Roman Empire
In office
April 28, 3 – April 29, 3
Nominated byGluteus Maximus
Appointed byLegendoftheGoldenAges85
Preceded bySelf
Succeeded bythe uppermost yellow pixel on the left side of the label on the Book in the bottle from Super Mario Sunshine
2nd/6th Ambassador of Time Travel to the Roman Empire
In office
April 1, 16 BC – April 1, 15,247
Preceded byLegendoftheGoldenAges85's computer
Succeeded byLegendoftheGoldenAges85's iPhone
6th Ambassador of Time Travel to the Roman Empire
In office
c. 17,000,082 BC – August 4, 1977
Preceded bythe fleck of grain that landed on LegendoftheGoldenAges85's computer when an unruly pair of citizens brawled in the streets of Pompeii
Succeeded bythe Yeah Toast Boat
3168946182362nd Piece of Garbage Uploaded to the Internet
In office
April 1, 2020 – April 1, 2020
Preceded byIMG_0424.jpg
Succeeded bySeat abolished
1st New Piece of Garbage Uploaded to the Internet
In office
March 32, 2020 – April 1, 2020
Preceded bySeat established
Personal details
Born(1384-04-17)April 17, 1384
South Wikipedia, the Internet, the Universe
EducationEditor University

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