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Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

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10:35 was nominated for deletion because the sum of its digits no longer exists.
2 was nominated for deletion per WP:BFDI and WP:TPOT
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.
24 was nominated for deletion because 25 is funnier. Why hasn't this been nominated yet until now?
4 was nominated for deletion per BFB harassment.
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.

A-F

Adobe Flash was nominated for deletion because it's still broken as of 2021.
Adopt Me! was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
Ænglisċ wæs genemned wīdlāst.
The Amazing Digital Circus was nominated for deletion because the nominator thought it was overrated.
American English was nominated for deletion because British English is better.
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.
Association football was nominated for deletion because football is better than soccer.
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?
Bathing was nominated for deletion because it's a waste of water and showering 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).
Bloons was nominated for deletion by someone who definitely isn't a balloon.
BonziBuddy was nominated for deletion for killing many people's computers.
Brawlhalla was nominated for deletion because of annoying Mordex mains.
- The result was Redirect to Korhalla, referencing the April Fools' joke from that community.
CAPTCHA was nominated for deletion for assuming that I am a robot.
Car was nominated for deletion because they clog up the parking lot.
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.
Dallas Cowboys was nominated for nominated for deletion because everyone hates the Cowboys.
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.
Deletion of articles on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion as an attempt to end this joke practice.
Denuvo was nominated for deletion because it made our games lag.
Dial-up Internet access was nominated for deletion last year, but was so slow it didn't submit until today.
Disney was nominated for deletion because of fair use.
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.
Duplication was nominated for deletion for duplication duplication.
- note: there are two separate nominations, but one carries a Cyrillic O.
For the 21st time, Earth was nominated for deletion.
Earth (song) was nominated for deletion because we wanted change.
Eddsworld was nominated for "!!A BIG ED Trumpet!!" It copied Ed Edd n Eddy like an Ed tall.
The Eras Tour was nominated for deletion because the nominator really wanted to go , but the tickets are too expensive.
Everything was nominated for deletion because everything must go!
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.
Florida Man was nominated for deletion per not as much of a danger as Chicago, New York City, and Ohio.
Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) was (Redacted)
Friday (Rebecca Black song) was nominated for deletion because it was ~~not~~ Friday on 1 April 2011.

G-M

Gas prices was nominated for deletion because of inflation within the economy.
Gemini (chatbot) was nominated for deletion. The nomination reads like something...
Generation Alpha was nominated for deletion.
Goldfish was nominated for deletion because of their too short memory.
Grand Theft Auto VI nominated to be cancelled GTA 6 will never never come out maybe playing with pigs in the reward trophy delay big diaster with tornado sink follows everybody and crushed to biten in pieces.
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.
Holden Caulfield was nominated for deletion for being a phony.
Hololive was never an idol company to begin with.
Holy Hell was nominated for deletion.
Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
Hornby Railways was nominated for deletion because its British Model Trains are too expensive.
Horse was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
HTTP 404 was not found.
- note: this nom is basically the sequel to last year's nom
Incivility was nominated for deletion for violating WP:CIVILITY.
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
Level crossing was nominated for deletion per safety and Operation Lifesaver
Lie was nominated for deletion as a hoax.
Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
Line 4 Sheppard was nominated for deletion because its too short and is recommended to be merged into Line 1 Yonge-University.
List of brackish bodies of water was nominated for dilution because per WP:NOSALT, "salting is usually a bad idea".
List of indefinitely protected pages was nominated for deletion because protected articles are no fun :(
Luigi was nominated for deletion for doing nothing
Macaroni was nominated for deletion to put the glock-wielding penguins from last year under a diet.
Melbourne Airport was nominated for deletion because they don't want a rail link
Metroid Prime Fore was nominated for deletion.
Mewtwo was nominated for deletion as an unnecessary fork of Mew.
Mojibake was nominated for deletion because ä½•ã‹ãŠã‹ã—ã„ã§ã™ã€‚
Microsoft Copilot was nominated for deletion because it killed Cortana.
Midas was nominated for deletion as the nominator was tired of all the gold. Unfortunately for the nomination page...
Midland Main Line was nominated for deletion because the Great Central Main Line was a far better, faster route than it, but the Great Central line closed.
The nominator threw the Holy Hand Grenade at the Murder Drones and immediately escaped.
Myspace was nominated to be Zucc'd; surely nothing bad will happen to me on Facebook —some 2009 teen.

N-S

Newman was nominated for deletion for being pure evil.
Nijisanji was nominated for deletion because it's just a joke.
November was nominated for deletion for misinformation of when in the year it is.
Nudity was nominated for deletion by a panicked kindergarten teacher.
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.
Palworld was DESTORY THIS GAME SUCKS RIP OFF POKEMON This is a pokemon clone slow controls terbbie graphics low poly it looks like a 1 year old made it Pokemon Pikachu electric attack!
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.
Persona 3 Reload was nominated for deletion per WP:RUMOUR (We think the nominator is mad at Atlus because they didn't added Kotone Shiomi into the downloadable content (DLC))
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.^{[citation needed]}
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.
Rainbow Road (Mario Kart) was nominated for deletion because the nominator has fallen off of it far too many times.
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.
(Redacted) was (Redacted) per (Redacted)
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.
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Rotten egg was nominated for deletion because it was removed from the latest edition of BeanBoozled.
Scam and Spam were nominated for SPAM
School was nominated for deletion for the sake of the children!
SCP Foundation was nominated for deletion because [REDACTED]
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 because the brainrot was too much for the site to handle.
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.
Starry (drink) was nominated for deletion for being responsible for screwing Mountain Dew Pitch Black's distribution in the beginning of last year.
Stonehenge was nominated for deletion so that it can be replaced with something more useful, like a Walmart.

T-Z

The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
TikTok was nominated for deletion again to accommodate with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
Trading was nominated for deletion because it was removed in Rocket League during the Patch Notes v2.36 update.
Turn It On Again was nominated for deletion because someone wanted Phil to turn it off.
Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
Vehicle registration plate was nominated for deletion as there is already have vehicle identification number.
Velma (TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT
- But did anyone who doesn't work as a corporate higherup at Warner Bros. Discovery think it was a good show to begin with?
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...
Wikipedia was nominated for deletion in order to delete Wikipedia while the reader is on this page, causing a loophole.
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 95 was nominated for deletion for plagiarising Windows95man.
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.
Yahoo! Answers was nominated for deletion because it's been dead for almost three years and has been succeeded by better Q&A sites.
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.
Your Lie in April and its film adaptation were nominated for deletion with earlier reason as Kaori never actually died, but the nominator ASAP told that both violated WP:BLP.
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

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.
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was was nominated for deletion for a fourth time because it is a bad policy
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (21st nomination) was nominated for deletion for being unfunny.
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules was nominated for deletion due to salt, pepper, and aliens.

Redirects for discussion

BFDI was nominated for deletion
British SSR was nominated for deletion
Grrl was also nominated for deletion
pht was nominated for deletion
Sonic X Shadow Generations was nominated for deletion.

Templates for discussion

Users for deletion

User:Xingqiu Viator nominated himself for deletion.

Other requests

Articles for creation

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
- The title of AlphaBeta135's user page also resembled a Metra platform sign.
- P.S. this user was never 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.
Toadette replace all content from their userpage and replaced to two trouts and an emergency user slap (in case Toadette gets out of control....). Soon, they will disrupt this page with a single key soon...........................
Xeroctic revealed himself to be a brachyphage.
Qadri223 was sarcastic, thought to have depression, bipolar disorder, and probably, the schizophrenia. He quoted that "[he] loves Revival", although it is critically panned. Maybe he has the point.
TidalTreka's userpage was corrupted by ransomware.

MemeGod27's userpage was invaded by the April Fooligans, and a poorly-drawn alien was added (reverted, he'll be back soon... ...soon.)
QuicoleJR's userpage was set on fire.
NasssaNser used unique per-page signatures when participating in deletion discussions.
TheTechie left a special message on some user talk pages...
Ipatrol's user page got destroyed by the cabal (permalink). And then the same happened to Ivyclaw33 (permalink)

Other pranks

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

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.
Down Goes Anderson, a 2023 amateur fight between two baseball players.
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 parked again. Then it died again.
        There is another Airbus A380 parked in another parking lot.
      - The two former foes stared at each other, both reminiscing the Splatfest the previous year.
      - The municipality's parking minimum laws mandated the addition of a significant number of parking spaces; so the parking lot was promptly expanded.
        Then extra spacing was closed due to lack of Revenue.
      - Right after that, 6 Pokémon Jets parked in the parking lot.
      - someone parked a miku bike in the parking lot and started blasting miku songs
      - A vortex appeared!
      - Super Mario has reserved a space for his kart
      - THE BATTLE BUSES HAVE LANDED
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.
Panini! dares you to try and find all of his secret guestbooks.
* A request for botship page and a request for foundership page were opened.
- AlphaBeta135 is the first to be nominated for botship
- 2003 LN6 was also nominated for botship
A page coauthored by Billy the Puppet opened to discuss the best generation of gaming consoles
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Miscellaneous

This page was tilted for five minutes.
Kuru's nomination was tilted.
A secret message was added to the Sandbox.

Main Page

Artist's impression of a ray cat

Mugshot of Pep

Today's picture of the day is Nelly Marty l, 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
        The order of the top two facts were randomized so that the DYK-picture alternates between a ray cat and an innocent dog.
        Color-changing cats could help us communicate with the future
        
        Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary
On this day in 1969, The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/S T O L 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.
A nomination about Israel was speedy deleted.

XFD poll

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

Sandbox

A certain hedgehog master turned the sandbox into sand.

References

v t e Operation Radiance
Part of Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024
Project Spectrum	Adobe Flash We Didn't Start the Fire Yellowcake Shrek Homestuck Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion Hatsune Miku Winter Cookie Monster Grimace Shake Pink Barbenheimer Color Light mode
Project Fire	Internet (2004) You Wouldn't Steal a Car (2005) Windows Me (2006) Clippy (2007) YouTube poop (2008) Myspace (2009) Baby (Justin Bieber song) (2010) Friday (Rebecca Black song) (2011) SOPA/PIPA (2012) Windows 8 (2013) Flappy Bird (2014) The dress (2015) Pizza Rat (2016) Pokémon Go (2017) Doki Doki Literature Club! (2018) YouTube Rewind (2019) Raid: Shadow Legends (2020) Adobe Flash (2021) Remote work (2022) Roblox death sound (2023) 2023 and 2024 (2024)
Related	Art museum Chicago "L" (CTA) Internet meme Metra Monty Python Operation Lifesaver (a.k.a. Mint Test) The Parking Lot The Impossible Quiz We Didn't Start the Fire