Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024

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April Fools Day 2024 marked the twenty-first year that the holiday was celebrated on Wikipedia.[a] Wikipedia editors made nearly 250 joke AfD nominations; Operation Radiance alone resulted in the creation of fourteen color themed AfDs and twenty-one AfDs about 2004-2024 Internet phenomena. Due to the vast number of joke AfD nominations, the April Fool's Day deletion log had to be split in two.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

0-9

A-F

G-M

  • The result was delete and salt.
  • The result was Dilute.

N-S

T-Z

  • The result was
    Arial.
  • But did anyone who doesn't work as a corporate higherup at Warner Bros. Discovery think it was a good show to begin with?
  • The result was would have been deleted, if it weren't for those meddling kids!‎

Categories for discussion

No categories were nominated for deletion. Maybe next year!

Files for discussion

No categories were nominated for deletion. Maybe next year!

Miscellany for deletion

Redirects for discussion

Templates for discussion

Users for deletion

Other requests

Articles for creation

Requests for adminship

Requests for comment

Requested moves

Featured picture candidates

In the News nominations

Project proposals

User page pranks

A typical platform sign on Metra, located on Flossmoor station
UPDATE: After April Fools jokes on Jimbo's user page got reverted several times, "offending" users were warned with an oddly similar warning template... (1 2)

Other pranks

Operation Radiance

Joke pages

Miscellaneous

Map
The CTA should extend the Green Line from Cottage Grove to South Chicago via the Metra Electric Line

Main Page

The Dom Luis I bridge, today's featured photo from Wikimedia Commons
Artist's impression of a ray cat
Mugshot of Pep

Other serious stuff

XFD poll

The winners of April Fools' Day 2024 are Procrastination, Parking Lot, and AlphaBeta135!

Procrastination won the tie-break. More information about this decision can be found on the talk page.

AfD vote tally
Nomination Votes
Déjà vu 3
Procrastination 3
Ampersand 2
Art museum 2
7 1
2024 United States presidential election 1
American English 1
Arizona 1
Barbiehiemer 1
Car 1
Color theory 1
COVID-19 pandemic 1
Dial-up Internet access 1
Disney 1
Doki! Doki! Literaturę club 1
Earth (song) 1
Everything 1
Generation Alpha 1
GLaDOS 1
Goldfish 1
Grimace Shake 1
Heel 1
Holy Hell 1
Internet 1
Isles of Scilly 1
Jimmy Wales[1] 1
Miles "Tails" Prower 1
Ohio 1
Skibidi Toilet 1
The Amazing Digital Circus 1
The Eras Tour 1
Wikipedia 1
Non-AfD vote tally
Nomination Votes
Parking Lot 6
Panini!'s Challenge 3
Operation Radiance 2
Artist's impression of a ray cat 1
Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines → Two children that need to be turned into corpses 1
DYK "The Charm quark" 1
DYK "Colin Mackay" 1
Miscellany_for_deletion/Special:DeletePage 1
Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? 1
Seizing the sandbox 1
Upside-Down Cake 1
User:MemeGod27 1
Requests for botship 1
Requests for botship/AlphaBeta135 1
Prankster vote tally
Nomination Votes
AlphaBeta135 9
TheTechie 2
Sebbers10 2
Melecie 2
LilianaUwU 1
QuicoleJR 1
Ryanisgreat4444 1

Sandbox

A certain hedgehog master turned the sandbox into sand.

"Mr. Administrator, Manual of Style is not an actual person, Manual of Style is the Cabal's policy!"

Notes

  1. ^ Starting with and including April Fools' Day 2004
  1. ^ The actual vote said "Jimbo Wales" but since this is not the name of the article, instead his username, it was deduced that the voter meant to say "Jimmy Wales."