Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023
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The April Fools Day celebrations of 2023 marked the twentieth year that April Fools Day was celebrated on Wikipedia.[a] Major occurrences of this year's April Fools Day celebrations included posting pictures of The Keepy Uppy Balloon and the Sacred Wombats. Similar to the past few years, joke deletion nominations were incredibly common; 196 joke deletions were logged on this page by 11:59 PM.
Voting on the best AfDs of 2023 has concluded; results are below.
Deletion nominations
Articles for deletion
A-F
- Ad hominem was nominated for deletion for breaking WP:NPA but the nominator ended up breaking that policy instead (how ironic).
- The result was keep; nominator likely violated NPA when talking about that editor.
- What's the point in keeping our article on Adley Rutschman if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season?
- The result was totally unrelated, woomy.
- Among Us was nominated for deletion for the third consecutive year per WP:SUS.
- The result was ejected. Among Us was not An Impostor.
- Animutation was nominated for deletion because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims.
- The result cannot process; switch to Intel Core i7.
- Anime was nominated for deletion because the nominator has never watched anime, and yet apparently knows about Splatoon despite having never played it.
- The result was Delete. Anime is trash.
- Apollo 11 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
- The result was Not G3'd
- April Fools’ Day was nominated for deletion for false statements on this page.
- This conversation has been ongoing since 1804.
- Notice anything strange with the nomination? (Hint: the first real AfD nomination on that article happened in 2009)
- April 2 was nominated for deletion for being hilarious and original.
- The result was mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.
- {{April Fools AfD Reasoning|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME|reason={{{2}}}}}
- {{subst:April Fools AfD Result|{{subst:result|ARTICLENAME|rationale=rationale}}}}
- Artificial intelligence was nominated for deletion per WP:AI and to save humanity.
- The result was to Create Artificial Unintelligence
- Artificial intelligence art was nominated for deletion for the good of Wikipedia and the society it rules.
- The result was downgrading artistic AIs to run on Intel Pentium II processor.
- Art gallery was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOTREPOSITORY and WP:GALLERY rules
- The result was redirect to Wikimedia Commons.
- Baba Is You. Article Is Delete.
- Article is Keep.
- Spirit of Eagle threatened to pop all balloons, including the Keep Uppy Balloon.
- The result was the Keep Uppy Balloon has survived Spirit of Eagle's great assortment of needles and other sharp instruments.
- 𰻝𰻝面 was nominated for deletion for having way too much detail for no reason.
- The result was keep.
- Bielefeld was nominated for deletion for not existing.
- The result was Bielefeld no longer exists, demolition will commence on 31 April 2023.
- BFDI was nominated for deletion for being too violent and very much banned.
- It also coincided with the 12th anniversary of Inanimate Insanity (check the description) unbeknownst to the nominator.
- The result was Peppered, since it's already salted.
- Black and white was nominated for deletion in favor of cycling colors.
- The result was redirect to Color.
- Bloon was nominated for deletion in order for the monkeys to pop the KU Balloons... interesting how logical the nominator's reasoning is.
- Bluey (2018 TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:BLUE, creating confusion with another famous blue dog, and being the originator of the Keepy Uppy balloon.
- The result was move to Blue's Clues while riding the Blue Line in Chicago.
- 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!
- This nom should've been relisted by now.
- Notice the use of
{{countdown-ymd}}
, it will definitely be reopened next year.
- Notice the use of
- This nom should've been relisted by now.
- Bones (Imagine Dragons song) was nominated for deletion to question its entertainment factor.
- Brazil was nominated for deletion for being too scary to visit like Ohio.
- It was Sent to Argentina instead.
- Chainsaw Man was nominated for deletion because Bocchi the Rock! is better.
- The result was redirect to some bear.
- Care was nominated for deletion.
- The result's no care.
- ChatGPT nominated itself for deletion.
- The result was delete. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion regarding the proposed deletion of this Wikipedia article. After careful consideration and evaluation of the arguments presented, a decision has been reached. Unfortunately, we have determined that the article does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines and will therefore be deleted. Thank you for your understanding and continued support of Wikipedia's mission to provide accurate and reliable information to the public.
- 漢字 (漢字, 漢字, 漢字) was nominated for deletion for being too difficult to write
- Chinese characters (displayed as Simplified Chinese characters, 汉字) was nominated for deletion six minutes later
- Ironically, Chinese characters (Simplified display) was closed first and the result was Redirect to Duolingo. So that everyone can learn 中文.
- The Traditional display of 漢字 was later closed and the result was 削除. 漢字は難しい...
- From Japanese to English: Delete. Kanji (or hanzi or hanja) is difficult.
- The nomination has a Korean (hanja) humor header, Japanese (kanji) close, and Chinese comments. In addition, everything is written vertically similar to actual Chinese text.
- 2023 Chicago mayoral election was nominated for deletion for having two equally no-good runoff candidates.
- Someone got mad at Combinatorial game theory because they moved second in a game with value .
- The result was BUT HEY! THAT'S JUST A THEORY, A GAME THEORY!
- Comment got commented out. Go to edit source to read what it says.
- The result was Commented out.
- Again, go to edit source to find out.
- The result was Commented out.
- 🦀 Crab 🦀 Rave 🦀 is 🦀 gone! 🦀
- 🦀Speedy Gone🦀
- Cursor (user interface) was nominated for deletion for being so pointy that it can't even render
- CSS nominated itself for deletion by applying
display: none;
to<body>
. - David was nominated for deletion because it is biblically accurate that he said "aw seriously" (rip headphone users)
- The result was Aw, Seriously!
- Daylight saving time was nominated for deletion because it is a waste. Also, the nominator and everyone else subject to DST feel jet lagged.
- The result was Rollback to standard time.
- Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? was nominated for deletion as the user didn't find him sexy.
- The result was Yes. He is sexy.
- Defamation was nominated for deletion per WP:G10
- The result was withdrawn
- Depths of Wikipedia was out of the depths for a while now and was nominated for deletion for being inaccurate.
- The result was to go back to the depths.
- Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion for being caught cheating.
- In reference to the recent Minecraft April Fools' snapshot, it was closed by running
/vote rule minecraft:dream_mode repeal
.
- In reference to the recent Minecraft April Fools' snapshot, it was closed by running
- Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez were nominated for deletion for being the same person.
- The results were to move them to each others' nomination page
- 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.
- El resultado fue una solución intermedia.
- Dysarthria wash nominayted for deleeshion.
- The reeesult wasss, lemme shee here... I guess it can shhtay.
- Earth was nominated for deletion for the 18th time. One day it will be successful.
- The result was keep as it is mostly harmless.
- Encyclopædia Britannica was nominated for deletion to keep Wikipedia superior.
- The result was speedy keep to comply with United States antitrust laws.
- En passant was nominated for deletion as an obvious WP:HOAX.
- Holy Hell.
- Esperanto estis proponita por forigo ĉar ĝi ne estas bona lingvo.
- La rezulto estis lernu Tokipono anstataŭe
- Fandom was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTFANDOM.
- The result was speedy keep to comply with United States antitrust laws.
- Field of Corn was nominated for deletion because for the fact that we can't eat concrete corn, and it's yucky.
- The result was Redirect to Field of Maize.
- Filli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy cry twice in this episode.
- The result was who is Fluttersky?
- Final Space was nominated for deletion for tax write-off purposes.
- The result was merge to Mooninite, ain't no doubt.
- Fishes were nominated for deletion because they are POISONOUS to eat!
- The result was Slap the nominator with a trout.
- Forgery was nominated for deletion for forging User:Melecie's signature ( melecie talk) and could be committing a crime.
- Melecie (the original one) closed it with Four Spider-lecies pointing at each other.
- Fox was nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior wolves.
- The result was delete Fox News.
- FTX is nominated for deletion for being responsible for crashing the crypto market in November 2022
- The result was will the real SBF please stand up.
G-M
- Genshin Impact was nominated for deletion for wasting people's money over some items.
- The result was redirect to Benshin Piro.
- Give You Up was nominated for deletion because it's never gonna happen.
- The result was Gonna be given up.
- Stupid Goddess of Victory: Nikke game made me poor
- The result was Redirect to Nike.
- Good faith was nominated for deletion per WP:ABF.
- The result was speedy block.
- Grass was nominated for deletion because it is my God-given right to not touch this "grass."
- The result was Grass touched.
- Green was nominated for deletion by a talking sketchbook.
- The result was Never be creative again.
- Harambe was deemed a dead meme.
- The result was Memes never die. Except for every single mene past 2018, most of which are pretty much dead on arrival.
- You have one hour to respond to this nomination, starting at 23:00 UTC.
- The result was You're too late!
- HTML is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
- The result was April Fools' is over.
- A processed version was made after nomination closure: index.html (replicated via an HTML editor)
- Hyperlink was nominated for deletion for being invasive as heck.
- The result was Redirect to Red Sea.
- Ice cream was nominated for deletion for illegally transmitting the unthinkable to the world.
- The result was Redirect to Fast and Furious 9, which is better anyway.
- IDLE's nomination for deletion was imported.
- The result was redirect to Visual Studio Code.
- Inflation was nominated for deletion for skyscraper-high prices.
- 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 result [above] was Convert to trains.
- Interstate 45 was nominated for deletion in particular because of these house-destroying maniacs trying to widen a freeway in Houston.
- The Illuminati was nominated for deletion for (Redacted) and WP:POINTY.
- The result was (Redacted).
- Invisibility wasnominated for deletion a second timebecause the nominator had the same idea as the first person.
- The result wasvisible.
- 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.
- The result was Redirect to intellectual property office.
- 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).
- The result was Spaghettify interchange.
- JavaScript nominated itself for deletion through just two lines of code to clear everything inside the
<body>
tag- The result was [object Object].
- Joe is nominated for deletion for _________.
- The result was redirect to Joe Biden.
- Kerning and Keming were nominated for nominated for deletion (rn and m) for social distancing in 2023 and overcrowding respectively.
- Kanye West was nominated for deletion.
- The result was got cancelled, like this nomination.
- This was in reference to the fact that the nom got MfD'd.
- And the nom disappeared from existence.
- This was in reference to the fact that the nom got MfD'd.
- The result was got cancelled, like this nomination.
- Kyrie Irving was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
- The result was nominator traded for LeBron James.
- Lake Shore Drive was nominated for deletion for being a barrier on Chicago's lakefront; this is merely an expressway on the lakefront without trucks (mostly).
- LazarBeam got yeeted by some Wikipedian.
- The result was yeet.
- 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!
- The result was LOL.
- 99 Luftballons was nominated for deletion under orders from the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union to shoot down 99 Keepy Uppy Balloons.
- Marisa was nominated for deletion for theft and possible trespassing.
- Matthew Guy was nominated for deletion because he tried to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
- The result was replaced Matthew Guy with Andy Byford.
- Stop doing Mathematics
- Mathematics was nominated for deletion again because math sucks.
- Both results were Played for absolute fools.
- Mayor of New York was nominated because I run New York!
- The result was redirect to Rats.
- Mercury and Venus are nominated for deletion as they are both unlikely habitable for human now and in the future.
- The result was Destroyed by the death star.
- 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
- The result was totally unrelated, veemo.
- You have one minute to respond to this nomination after 23:59 UTC, at this point it would be too late to respond.
- The result was You're too late!
- Monday was nominated for deletion per WP:IJDLI.
- The result was keep as it's not Monday.
N-S
- Nature was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Delete and go to Outer space.
- Nazi was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
- The result was keep.
- Nestlé was nominated for deletion because they're WP:EVIL.
- The result was delete per Nestlé Crunch ad.
- Next Gen (NASCAR) was nominated for deletion because THESE CARS ARE KILLING PEOPLE!!!
- The result was wall ride it.
- Never Gonna Give You Up was disallowed by an edit filter.
- The result was Oversight, and redirect article to The Game (mind game) instead.
- Nike was nominated for deletion since it just can't do it.
- The result was Just Do It.
- Note was nominated for deletion on grounds of failing WP:N.
- The result was noted, a redirect to a text editor is considered.
- Nupedia was nominated for deletion for being a free encyclopedia that no one can edit.
- The result was merge to Wikipedia.
- 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.
- The result was It doesn't exist in the first place.
- Old English was nominated for deletion on the basis that the language is simply an elaborate prank.
- The result was transform to Middle English.
- One Minute was nominated for deletion because one minute is not enough time.
- The discussion was only open for one minute, and the result was Time's up
- Papyrus was nominated for deletion for not being a very great font
- The result was merge to Comic Sans.
- (get it?)
- The result was merge to Comic Sans.
- Patrick's Parabox was nominated for deletion with an AfD that contains itself. Fortunately it only goes one layer deep.
- The result was paraboxical.
- Patrick Star was nominated for deletion for being WP:POINTy.
- The result was redirect to Starfish.
- In light of a penguin invasion, they were nominated for deletion for committing war crimes and violating the Geneva Convention.
- Pessimism was nominated for deletion.[citation needed]
- Physical chemistry was nominated for deletion for the same reason as math.
- Physics was nominated for deletion with a tilted look.
- The result was reinvented.
- r/place was to be whited out.
- It was whited out and archived like r/place was, out of schedule.
- Plagiarism was nominated for deletion per WP:PLAGIARISM and WP:COPYVIO. Wow, people were way ahead of this nomination. Wait a minute.
- The result was expelled for academic dishonesty.
- Point of view is nominated for deletion for clearly violating NPOV policy.
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are nominated for deletion for ḃḕḯɦĝ а̄ Бчḡḡλ ΜεṤṤ
- The closer went surfing off the shore of Cascarrafa, Paldea, waiting for a MissingNo.
- Power was nominated for deletion per Bang.
- Procrastination will be nominated for deletion eventually.
- Maybe a little overdue?
- Prose was nominated for deletion with an extremely short poem about how poetry is superior.
- The result was keep. Actually, move lists and poems to prose instead.
- Q was nominated for deletion for being useless.
- The result was uickly uestioned.
- Reason was nominated for deletion for no reason.
- The result was:
- Rotation was nominatedfordeletion.
- The result was Rotated around.
- Rules were nominated for deletion per Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.
- The result was more rules.
- Santa Claus was nominated for deletion for breaking WP:HOAX. Wait, what was the other reason for deletion?
- The result was Killed by Danny Gonzalez.
- You have one second to respond to this nomination after 23:59:59 UTC, at this point it would be too late to respond.
- The result was You're too late!
- See You Next Wednesday was nominated for deletion
- The result was See you next monday!.
- Semicolon was nominated for deletion because Python is better.
- The result was ;.
- September, October, November and December are nominated for deletion as they are misleading.
- The result was Renamed per User:Melecie. Happy Quacember Fools!
- Look at the second to last response in the nomination.
- The result was Renamed per User:Melecie. Happy Quacember Fools!
- Shipping (fandom) was nominated for deletion to prevent flame wars.
- The result was speedy keep because the nominator did not want to close this with another poem.
- Silence was nominated for deletion such that if anyone talks, the AfD will close.
- The result was Uh oh, someone broke the silence (AfD nom) :\
- SMG4 was nominated for deletion for non-notable sensory overload (i.e. Internet memes)...
- 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 held a funeral for him.
- May Sonic rest in peace.
- South Korea was nominated for deletion because they invented K-pop and eat penis fish
- The result was Merge to Best Korea.
- Soviet Union was nominated for deletion for trying to block Wikipedia when Wikipedia blocks trolls like Stalin.
- Space(Punctuation)WasNominatedForDeletion.
- TheResultWasNoConsensus.
- Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so AfD'd so that nobody would expect it.
- The result was Redirect to Djikstra's algorithm. Did you expect this?
- Spherical Earth was nominated for deletion because the world is flat and there are turtles all the way down.
- The result was Delete per Flat Earth Society.
- The nominator attempted to delete the Splatoon series and the Cryptid Splatfest because of unwanted vandalism and turf wars in Chicago.
- "Circle settings" allow users to show or hide ink circles (hidden by default) made by random inklings and octolings. These settings are located on the top right corner of the page (the nom and part 2 of the AfD log). However, because
{{top text}}
is not available for mobile and other Minerva users, the "circle settings" are also located below the "Splatꙩꙩn" header. - Keep is winning the Splatfest.
- "Circle settings" allow users to show or hide ink circles (hidden by default) made by random inklings and octolings. These settings are located on the top right corner of the page (the nom and part 2 of the AfD log). However, because
- 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).
- The result was pedestrianized. It's Not Just Bikes that have trouble here, but trains and buses as well.
Strikethrough was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
T-Z
- Tetris and Tetris (film) were nominated for deletion due to low confidence of the nominator, especially given the fact that Super Mario Bros. (film) is an utter failure.
- Texas Motor Speedway was nominated for deletion due to poor racing quality and due to the nominator getting covid there.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie was nominated for deletion because the nominator wanted the Sonic movies to be superior.
- The result was Merge to Super Mario Bros. (film).
- The Whale (2022 film) was nominated for deletion as per the nominator's objection.
- TikTok was nominated for deletion.
- The result was rename to musical.ly.
- Timeline of the far future was nominated for deletion for WP:BALL.
- Traffic congestion was nominated for deletion for being too hard to alleviate because of induced demand.
- The result was Keep and expand. One more lane, bro. One more lane is gonna fix this, just watch!
- Traffic light was nominated for deletion for accessibility reasons (particularly color). Go to Tipperary Hill in Syracuse and you will soon find out why.
- The result was Replace with Stop sign.
- To the Moon was nominated for deletion for being cryptocurrency propaganda.
- The result was everything's alright.
- Trout was whacked with a WP:TROUT.
- The result was Trout the article per WP:TROUT.
- Two Trucks was nominated for deletion for havi-
- The result wa-
- Underline was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
- Vertical writing was nominated for deletion because I am disoriented. This is out of balance.
- WAAAAARRRRRIIIIOOOOO was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Waluigi is better.
- Weasel was nominated for deletion per MOS:WEASEL.
- The result was Upgrade to Otter.
- Weather balloon was nominated for deletion for being suspicious.
- The result was shot down
- Wikilink is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
- Whopper was nominated for deletion for being closer to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than Burger King.
- The nom was temporarily "lock-closed" for copyrighted lyrics, meaning only an administrator could edit and officially close the nom until it was unprotected after April Fools' ended.
- The result was give one to Bobby Witt Jr.
- The nom was temporarily "lock-closed" for copyrighted lyrics, meaning only an administrator could edit and officially close the nom until it was unprotected after April Fools' ended.
- Wittenoom, Western Australia is nominated for deletion for being contaminated with asbestos.
- Wolf was also nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior foxes.
- To parallel the closure of Fox, the result was to Keep Wolf News.
- Wombat was nominated for deletion in the spirit of Wikipedia's main 2023 April Fools' joke.
- World Baseball Classic was nominated for deletion because people got hurt.
- The result was merge with spring training, delete both.
- YouTube Shorts was nominated for deletion for being a copy of TikTok.
- The result was Delete as speedy as these videos' pace.
Categories for discussion
Files for discussion
- index.php was nominated for deletion because a complete index of Wikipedia would be too big.
- robots.txt was nominated for deletion for discrimination against robots.
- 503.html was nominated for deletion for being old and redundant.
Miscellany for deletion
- Special:ProtectPage was nominated for deletion per WP:OWN.
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was nominated for deletion because it had way too many problems in NotOrrio's eyes
- Vector 2022 was nominated for deletion because everyone doesn't like it.
- The result of the discussion was: Snow delete and make the default skin Skin:Nostalgia.
- Special:Logout was nominated for deletion per WP:HOLIC.
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Recursion is trying to delete itself.
- The result of the discussion was: no consensus.
- All Earth AfDs (apart from the first) were nominated for deletion for being unfunny, as stated in its first AfD.
- ANI was nominated for deletion because it serves no other purpose but to create drama.
- Wikipedia:Be bold was nominated for deletion for being a bad example of being bold.
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion, oh wait it's actually impossible to tell.
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (19th nomination) was nominated for deletion due to recursion.
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library was nominated for deletion via a sting operation for containing predators
- User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for deletion because the Wikipedia article says User:Jimbo founded Wikipedia.
Redirects for discussion
- Google is your friend was nominated for deletion since when?
- TNT poisoning and related pages exploded.
- Blank Space (song) was nominated for deletion because no one knows who sang it.
- Cyanide gas was nominated for deletion because the nominator forgot what it is.
- Recur was nominated for retargeting to Recur per WP:RECURSION.
Templates for discussion
- {{citation needed}} was nominated because: [citation needed].
- It was closed shortly after because it was taken as "disruptive".
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.
- User:PrincessPandaWiki was nominated for deletion for WP:MONARCH.
- User:Xingqiu Viator was nominated for deletion to test his Guhua abilities (and his Hydro Vision).
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.
- The result was internet exposure.
- Blue link example was nominated for creation as a counterpart to Red link example.
- Siuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu was nominated for creation for being part of a notable CR7 celebration.
Other requests
Requests for adminship
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Belford railway station, New South Wales
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gerbilling
Requested moves
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- 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!
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/All pages: Willy on Wheels tries a different approach.
- Make ANI the new Main Page!
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.
- A request was made to improve the legibility of Legibility.
Project proposals
- Wikipedia:Department of Fun (pre-2004) looks at each April Fools' page before 2004
- Articles for deletion for deletion, where articles for deletion nominations may be proposed for deletion.
User page pranks
- User:Melecie has officially had their life ruined by TV Tropes.
- It was archived here.
- 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
- The spinning texts were "AMOGUS ඞ".
- Planetberaure rotated his userpage 270 degrees because he was laying down for a nap.
- The talk page of User:Azeem1Hadzrie has turned upside down.
- It was returned to normal after the end of April Fool's Day.
- 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.
- Then he reverted it.
- 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.
- The user's spinning text has been slowered 6000 times.
- Taking Out The Trash generated some trash for them to take out.
- Jimbo's user page and talk page are goofed up again.
- A big spinning "April Fools!" was added.
- 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.
- Illusion Flame’s user page caught on fire!! Bring some 🧯.
- User:AlphaBeta135 cannot be touched as an avid April Fools AfD nominator!
- User:Charmquark314 rickrolls editors trying to create new sections on her talk page.
- User:TenPoundHammer redirected his talk page to Rickrolling
- User:Spirit of Eagle respected the capybara. Will you respect the capybara?
- Helen replaced her user page with a wooden horse. She is definitely not attempting to invade Troy.
Other pranks
Serious notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war. |
- Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded yet again!
- WP:BOLD was bolded again.
- And then spun out into Wikipedia:Be bolded.
- WP:BOLD was bolded 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)
- Jimbo was reported as a vandalism-only account.
- The sandbox was filled with sand.
- It lasted less than a minute.
- It then became an actual sandbox.
- 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.
- Then the upside-down effect disappeared.
- It returned to normal, but it's upside down.
- Later, the section's text font was changed to a fancy style.
- 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
- Template:Whale was changed to reference Wales instead (permalink).
- All Wikipedians have a conflict of interest with themselves and the project they edit.
The Sacred Keepy Uppy Balloon and The Sacred Wombats
Splatfest | |||
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Part of Wikipedia April Fools' Day 2023 | |||
Date | 1 April 2023 | ||
Location | Wikipedia | ||
Caused by | Wikipedia tradition of bad jokes and other deleted nonsense on April Fools' Day | ||
Goals | To cause shenanigans in the Other pranks section of the April Fools' Day 2023 main page. | ||
Status | Stalemate, April Fools ended before a winner could be decided | ||
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Lead figures | |||
Non-centralized leadership Non-centralized leadership | |||
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Casualties and losses | |||
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"Splatfest" is named after the real Splatfest in Splatoon. Coincidentally, the real Splatfest was happening at the same time as this "Splatfest". |
Keepy Uppy Balloon vs. The Sacred Wombats!
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Thou shalt not pop the sacred Keepy Uppy Balloon.
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Wikipedia is ruled by The Sacred Wombats.
- 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.
- Remember people, no edit wars
- It was turned into a icosahedron.
- It was exploded.
- It was downgraded.
- And it was returned, but upgraded again.
- And then it was deleted again.
- Later, it was upgraded.
- It was then gone.
- 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}}
.- The Keepy Uppy balloon decided to have a hot new gradient.
- Yes, even in the bottom right corner.
- Then it was decided for the wombats and the Keepy Uppy Balloon to have a rap battle. At the last second though, the Keepy Uppy Balloon was popped yet again and an angry ape came in its place.
- The sacred wombats became the scared wombats and ran away soon afterward, meaning the ape has won the rap battle.
- Then it was decided for the wombats and the Keepy Uppy Balloon to have a rap battle. At the last second though, the Keepy Uppy Balloon was popped yet again and an angry ape came in its place.
- Yes, even in the bottom right corner.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon decided to have a hot new gradient.
- The Keepy Uppy balloon was revived :P using
- After the roadkill was cleared, the tribute respawned again, and was deleted again.
- The tribute was deleted
- A tribute to the Keepy Uppy Balloon was put at the bottom of this page.
- Then the wombat was revived, then died.
- Then the mini Keepy Uppy Balloon started flying away.
- It was then popped, but was quickly restored.
- The Mini Keepy Uppy Balloon was brought back to Earth!
- Only to start flying away again... taking the Wombat with it.
- The Keepy Uppy Balloon was destroyed by the sus penguin twice, but revived.
- Supporters of the Keepy Uppy Balloon began offering gifts of beans and macaroni to the sus penguin(s) in exchange for them not popping the balloon.
- The sus penguins were gifted 1782 Glocks, and later left the Keepy Uppy Balloon alone.
- The balloon was tethered down, only to fly away again...
- And then land back where it started, flying in near the top of the page. I wonder how big the Wikipedia room is...
- Then a dancing clown offered to guard the balloon.
- And then land back where it started, flying in near the top of the page. I wonder how big the Wikipedia room is...
- The balloon was tethered down, only to fly away again...
- The sus penguins were gifted 1782 Glocks, and later left the Keepy Uppy Balloon alone.
- Supporters of the Keepy Uppy Balloon began offering gifts of beans and macaroni to the sus penguin(s) in exchange for them not popping the balloon.
- The Keepy Uppy Balloon was destroyed by the sus penguin twice, but revived.
- Only to start flying away again... taking the Wombat with it.
- The Mini Keepy Uppy Balloon was brought back to Earth!
- It was then popped, but was quickly restored.
- The sus penguins with the nuke and knife were defeated. The balloon has returned.
- The hot gradient balloon returned.
- The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon returned again.
- The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon now has a younger brother, the hot gradient balloon.
- The Sacred Keepy Uppy Family was retconned and the hot gradient balloon was redefined as the Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon’s sacred son, Sacred Keepy Uppy Jr.
- The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon now has a younger brother, the hot gradient balloon.
- The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon returned again.
- The hot gradient balloon returned.
Joke pages
KUB vs SW
- 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.
- At one point, some sacred wombats decided to add more balloons, they were all exterminated.
- Sacred Wombats' Temple
- Why the Communist Parties are willing to shoot down any balloons: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Memorandum on the 99 Keepy Uppy Balloons
- Splatfest but different...
Others
- 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.
- 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!
- funny-colored circle is provided as a reference to the Splatoon series.
- A recreation of Wikipedia's "REDmessage" is released
- Chemists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Periodic Table of Wikipedia, all 118 of them!
- Linguists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Wikipedia Alphabet, all 26 letters of the English alphabet!
- Roadgeeks! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices!
- From Template:Whale: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Wales
- Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, the sad truth about a man only known because of Shohei Ohtani.
- Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/No Deadline based on "Revolution 9"
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Procrastination will be filled in later.
- Shortest description of Wikipedia ever!
- Could be made shorter by using the zero copula in African American Vernacular English.
- Wikipedia:Be bolded transcludes Wikipedia:Be bold but bolds all the text.
- WP:October is updated to celebrate another year of the Halloween article existing
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Honorarium references an element that must change hands voluntarily.
- Vespa Carriola about a Vespa motorised whellbarrow, was created as a draft and moved to article space for about three whole days.
April Fools' Day throughout the years
Past
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1517 (506 years ago)
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1804 (219 years ago)
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1918 (105 years ago)
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1929 (94 years ago)
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1987 (36 years ago)
Future
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2103 (in 80 years)
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2122 (in 99 years)
Other serious stuff
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whopper was tagged with {{copyvio-revdel}} because the quoted song lyrics from "Harder Better Faster Whopper" likely violated copyright policies.
- The nomination was tagged the second time because someone put the lyrics of "Chicken Chicken," resulting in the AfD being fully protected until 2 April.
- Someone got blocked for pranking Oshwah's user page.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ty Gibbs was speedy deleted as a BLP violation.
- Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024 was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanye West (2nd nomination) was nominated for deletion due to it breaking WP:BLP. It later was deleted under WP:G10.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump (3rd nomination) was speedy deleted because it was "just a bad idea" (G6).
- A question on the Science reference desk was asked and answered "What would be the abbreviation for the systematic name of a hypothetical element of atomic number 717?" – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 10:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- "The IUPAC recommendation shows that 717 = SeptUnSeptium [capitals added for clarity] and hence Sus. Not likely to have a real-world utility any time soon. . Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:39, 1 April 2023 (UTC)"
XfD vote
This year, there were 51 votes. And the winner of AFD '23, with a landslide victory of 14 votes: ChatGPT.
Article | #Votes |
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ChatGPT | 14 |
Among Us | 3 |
IDLE | 3 |
Art gallery | 2 |
ARTICLENAME | 2 |
Bielefeld | 2 |
Ohio | 2 |
Splatoon | 2 |
TikTok | 2 |
April 2 | 1 |
Animutation | 1 |
April Fools’ Day | 1 |
Artificial intelligence | 1 |
Baba Is You | 1 |
BFDI | 1 |
Biangbiang noodles | 1 |
Black and white | 1 |
Bluey (2018 TV series) | 1 |
Bobby Witt Jr. | 1 |
Forgery | 1 |
Invisibility (2nd nomination) | 1 |
LOL | 1 |
Old English | 1 |
Plagiarism | 1 |
Stroad | 1 |
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion... | 1 |
Wittenoom, Western Australia | 1 |
Illegitimate nominations | #Votes |
AfD 2023 | 1 |
None, they all sucked and were unfunny. Lmao | 1 :( |
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.
- In the did you know section, there was a fact about a rabbit that played for the Philadelphia Eagles as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame.
Commons
commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates had its instructional text tilted at about the amount people complain about when they see the verticals on images aren't straight. They're not really so observant, are they? Still up as of 4 April.