Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024

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Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

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.
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.
Art museum was nominated for deletion as a much larger sequel to the previous nomination.
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).
Chelsea F.C and Manchester United F.C. were both nominated for deletion for being mid-table clubs.
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.
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.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was nominated for deletion in order to prevent three more years of Three Houses discourse.
Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) was (Redacted)
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".
Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
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.
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.
Pink was nominated for deletion because it is nowhere on the visible spectrum.
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.
Redirect was nominated for deletion as redirects takes onger time to reach the site.
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.
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was nominated for deletion because C.Q. Cumber did not want me to take Chicago's passenger rail system.
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.
Winter was nominated for deletion because I don't like it as a Chicagoan.
Yellowcake was nominated for deletion because it's not tasty. I think I have radiation poisoning.
Xenoblade Chronicles was nominated for deletion per violations of WP:CRYSTALBALL.

Categories for discussion

Files for discussion

Miscellany for deletion

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

Templates for discussion

Users for deletion

Other requests

Requests for adminship

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)[reply]

Featured picture candidates

In the News nominations

Project proposals

User page pranks

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.

Other pranks

Serious notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

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.

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Other serious stuff

XFD poll

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

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