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?
• 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.
• Brawlhalla was nominated for deletion.
• Character.ai's Character Assistant chatbot 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.
• Decimal was nominated for deletion because 9 is eaten by 7.
• 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.
• Dude, This Sucks was nominated for deletion per The Shower Rangers brainwashing the nominator into thinking the incident didn't happen.
• For the 21st time, Earth was nominated for deletion.
• 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.
• Horse was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• Internet was nominated for deletion. What is the Internet anyway?
• Invisible was invisibly nominated for deletion.
• John Pesutto was Nominated for deletion for wanting to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
• 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.
• Letter (alphabet) was nominated for deletion since numbers are superior
• Lie was nominated for deletion as a hoax.
• Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
• Melbourne Airport was nominated for deletion because they don't want a rail link
• Mojibake was nominated for deletion because 何ã‹ãŠã‹ã—ã„ã§ã™ã€‚
• 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.
• Paramount+ was nominated for deletion because they purged a bunch of shows last week.
• 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.
• Plagiarism was nominated for deletion due to fear of an Hbomberguy video.
• Pokémon Go was nominated for deletion for causing many traffic violence in 2017.
• 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.
• A Really Haunted Loud House was nominated for deletion because The Casagrandes Movie from the same franchise was way too good and managed to blow this movie out of a geyser.
• 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.
• 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.
• SNICK was nominated for deletion for forcing kids to do gross and unsanitary dares that could get them sick.
• 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.
• TikTok was nominated for deletion again to accommodate with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
• The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
• Turn It On Again was nominated for deletion because someone wanted Phil to turn it off.
• Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
• Vehicle registration plate was nominated for deletion as there is already have vehicle identification number.
• United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
• 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.
  • He later parked his ES44AC locomotive to stop the penguins from advancing further.
• Wesoree's sandbox was filled with sand.
• ~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 with the April fools AFD template 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
        • An Airbus A380 parked in the parking lot, but was destroyed by a bazooka.
          • The Airbus became undead.
• Red Sea was turned into a sea of red.
• WP:October was updated to honor the continued existence of Halloween.
• Melecie created a userscript to set the font of joke pages like this to Comic Sans.

Main Page

The Dom Luis I bridge, today's featured photo from Wikimedia Commons

• Today's picture of the day is Nelly Martyl, a french opera singer that participated in world premiers.
• Today's other featured picture shows a view of the Dom Luís I Bridge in Porto, Portugal during the blue hour
• Today's featured article is The Order of Brothelyngham, which was a gang of men that faked a religious order in Exton, Devon.
• There are a couple of facts in the did you know section.
  • 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.
• Today's List features the anthropodermic bibliopegy, which was the most popular practice that peaked in the 19th century. Taken from the list of books bound in human skin
• The featured place is Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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.