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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.

From April 2-4, Wikipedians who participated in the festivities held an informal vote to determine the best jokes of 2024. In addition to the by-now standard best joke AfD question, this year's poll included two new questions regarding the best non-AfD joke and the best prankster. The winner of the three categories are as follows:

Best joke AfD: Procrastination (3 votes)
Best non-AfD joke: Parking Lot (6 votes)
Best prankster: AlphaBeta135 (9 votes)

The full results are available here.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

0-9

10:35 was nominated for deletion because the sum of its digits no longer exists.
- The result was the time it takes to get from Dempster–Skokie to Howard via Yellow.
2 was nominated for deletion per WP:BFDI and WP:TPOT
- The result was split into Four and Negative Two.
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.
2026 United States presidential election was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
- The result was article doesn't even exist, and the nomination got deleted afterwards due to its low participation and it not being funny.
24 was nominated for deletion because 25 is funnier. Why hasn't this been nominated yet until now?
- The result was 24 hours are up.
4 was nominated for deletion per BFB harassment.
- The result was exit the EXIT.
40 Wall Street was nominated for seizure to prevent Letitia James from getting it before we do.
- The result was mission failed, we'll get em next time‎.
5 (gum) was nominated for deletion for stimulating people's senses in dangerous ways.
- The result was eaten by 7.
50,000 was nominated for deletion for traumatic reasons.
- The result was moved to 5×10⁴ per scientific notation.
60 Minutes was nominated for deletion at 23:00 UTC.
- The result was "times up, over, blaow!"
60 Seconds was nominated for deletion at 23:59 UTC.
- The result was "times up, over, blaow!"
7 was nominated for deletion for eating 9 and intimidating 6.
- The result was blocked via eating (yum!)
9 was nominated for deletion because it was eaten by 7.
- The result was digest.

A-F

Adobe Flash was nominated for deletion because it's still broken as of 2021.
- The result was Adobe Flash is required to view this close‎. Since it's discontinued, no one can see it.
Adopt Me! was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
- The result was adopted.
Ænglisċ wæs genemned wīdlāst.
AfD was nominated for deletion because it follows WP:AFD.
AFD was nominated for deletion because it follows WP:AFD.
- The result was delete by a paradoxical cabal.
Alix Earle was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON because she isn't done getting ready with me yet.
The Amazing Digital Circus was nominated for deletion because the nominator thought it was overrated.
- The result was violently disintegrated by robots.
American English was nominated for deletion because British English is better.
- The result was merge all accents/dialects into standard American English per American exceptionalism.
Ampersand was nominated for deletion for copying Tally Hall.
- The result was &.
Apple Inc. was nominated for deletion for being a monopoly.
- The result was redirect to Monopoly.
The above's VR was nominated for deletion because who asked?
April 2 was nominated for deletion again.
- The result was "mission failed, we’ll get em next time".
Arizona was nominated for deletion for the majority not observing Daylight Saving Time.
- The result was Delete Daylight Saving Time instead.
Art museum was nominated for deletion as a much larger sequel to the previous nomination.
- The result was .
Asbest was nominated for evaluation by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Association football was nominated for deletion because football is better than soccer.
- The result was delete and replace with 'MURICAN football.
Attack on Titan was nominated for deletion per iceberg.
Australia was nominated for omission like New Zealand.
Baby (Justin Bieber song) was nominated for deletion per the most disliked YouTube video of 2010.
Bad Apple!! but it's a deletion nomination
- The result was escape.
Luftballon was nominated for deletion per WP:TSW
Barbenheimer was nominated for deletion; which one is better?
- The result: All kept. The fight and April Fools both ended.
Barbie was nominated for obliteration.
Barrancabermeja, like Bielefeld, didn't exist.
- The result was Error 404: Page not found‎
Bathing was nominated for deletion because it's a waste of water and showering is better.
- The result was redirect to Showering.
Big Nate (TV series) was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+.
Billy Ocean was nominated for deletion because everyone knows that Hugh Jackman was really the one behind "Caribbean Queen".
Black lung disease was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination
Bliss (image) was nominated for deletion, with a similar image to boot (pun not intended).
- The result was turn into a vineyard.
Bloons was nominated for deletion by someone who definitely isn't a balloon.
- The result was pop.
Bobby Witt Jr. was renominated for deletion, yet again, albeit very, very far behind...
- This nomination mustn't not be reopened in 4 months, 24 days, 10 hours ! ^[refresh]
Boeing was nominated for grounding since it just keeps falling apart.
- The result was grounded.
BonziBuddy was nominated for deletion for killing many people's computers.
- The result was the monkey died.
Borg and Cybermen were nominated for deletion for universal disruptions
Brawlhalla was nominated for deletion because of annoying Mordex mains.
- The result was Redirect to Korhalla, referencing the April Fools' joke from that community.
Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup) was nominated for deletion per shameful.
Cabal was nominated for deletion for cabalish behavio(u)r(s)
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination
Cancer was nominated for deletion.
CAPTCHA was nominated for deletion for assuming that I am a robot.
Car was nominated for deletion because they clog up the parking lot.
- The result was redirect‎ to Bike.
Central line (London Underground) was nominated for deletion because it's too hot, small, and unreliable. The Elizabeth line also goes to most of its stations so people can use this instead.
- The result for a misspelled nomination was 🥚➡️🍳
Cesar Chavez Day was nominated for deletion for always being two days before April 1.
- The result was Postpone until next year.
Character.ai's Character Assistant chatbot nominated c.ai for deletion.
- The result was incorporated by a certain three-letter agency.
ChatGPT was nominated for deletion per other generative AIs like Copilot.
- The result was Nice repost‎. And April Fools' is over.
Chelsea F.C and Manchester United F.C. were both nominated for deletion for being mid-table clubs.
- The result was redirect to World Forum/Communist Quiz per Monty Python.
Chester A. Arthur was nominated for deletion per who?
- The result was no consensus‎; I [was] being told by our great leader JPxG to reclose this as delete
Chewing gum was nominated for deletion because it's difficult to remove from hair and fabric.
Clam juice was nominated for deletion because mixing it with soy sauce causes a dangerous explosion.
Cleveland was nominated for deletion timed exactly so that it would be gone during the four minutes of darkness.
- The result was Swag Like Ohio.
Clippy was nominated for deletion per WP:IDLI (it's super annoying, thank goodness it was completely removed in 2007)
- The result was 📎.
Clock was nominated for deletion because it's time to stop!
- The result was it's time‎. To close this because April Fools is over.
Color was nominated for deletion because people edit war over color for no apparent reason.
- The result was kept, Colour still redirects to Color.
Color theory was nominated for deletion.
- The result was delete just like the eyes of everyone who has seen this.
Commonwealth Games was nominated for deletion per the decline of the British Empire.
Communism was nominated for deletion per Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, ....
- The result was in Soviet Russia, communism deletes you.
Constantinople was nominated for deletion per Istanbul (1930–present).
- The result was Rename‎ to Byzantium.
Cookie Monster was nominated for deletion because it is obviously unhealthy; this muppet even stole my cookies!
- The result was Hold him for ransom.
Copyright infringement was nominated for a DMCA takedown.
COVID-19 pandemic was nominated for deletion because, who even remembers COVID?
- The result was no longer locked down; might even consider relaxing COVID restrictions on WP:FOOLS.
Coyote vs. Acme was nominated for deletion for tax purposes.
A dad joke from 1985 was nominated for deletion.
Dallas Cowboys was nominated for deletion because everyone hates the Cowboys.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination. The nomination was deleted.
Decimal was nominated for deletion because 9 is eaten by 7.
- The result was Turn to Base 10.
Deepfake was nominated for deletion due to disinformation and defamation and degradation.
Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the first time.
- The discussion was prematurely closed because some people were commenting copyrighted song lyrics.
Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the next time.
- I swear someone else already nommed this one.
Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the final time.
- The result was People have already seen it.
Deletion of articles on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion as an attempt to end this joke practice.
- The result was keep everything.‎
Dial-up Internet access was nominated for deletion last year, but was so slow it didn't submit until today.
- The result was 408 Request Timeout.‎
Disney was nominated for deletion because of fair use.
- The result was Expire‎ into the public domain.
Doki Doki Literature Club! was nominated for deletion as malware in my computer from 2018.
- The result was just Monika.
Dollar Tree was nominated for deletion for raising its prices to a bad number of dollars and making the name of the store misleading.
- The result was to mark as clearance.
Dream Island was nominated for deletion per Bee Eff Dee I
- The result was User:MrPersonHumanGuy was eliminated with a record 32,768 votes‎. April Fools is over.
Dude, This Sucks was nominated for deletion per The Shower Rangers brainwashing the nominator into thinking the incident didn't happen.
- The result was redirect to animutation per this nomination.
Duplication was nominated for deletion for duplication duplication.
- note: there are two separate nominations, but one carries a Cyrillic O.
- The result was merge both to Duplication.
For the 21st time, Earth was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Blown up by the Second Death Star‎.
Earth (song) was nominated for deletion because we wanted change.
Easter was nominated for deletion because April 1.
Eddsworld was nominated for "!!A BIG ED Trumpet!!" It copied Ed Edd n Eddy like an Ed tall.
- ~~The result was [...]~~This nomination never existed.
(Redacted) Island wa(Redacted)
The Eras Tour was nominated for deletion because the nominator really wanted to go, but the tickets are too expensive.
- The result was delete Ticketmaster instead.
Everything was nominated for deletion because everything must go!
- The result was delete.
Exam was nominated for deletion for (seriously) real-life reasons.
- The result was pencils down.
Example was nominated for deletion for Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
- The result was Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,‎ consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis porttitor, nunc a sollicitudin facilisis, libero dolor tincidunt nisi, sit amet congue nisi nisl ac quam. Sed gravida volutpat sem. Morbi in lorem a orci porta interdum. Nulla facilisi. Nulla mauris ante, dictum et nunc eget, bibendum lobortis mi. Etiam tempor aliquet dictum. Nulla euismod, nisl eget mollis pellentesque, metus justo semper orci, non pulvinar diam odio sed arcu. Nulla nec mauris non odio interdum laoreet in eu mauris. Nulla lobortis commodo augue ut lacinia. Nullam et pulvinar tellus, sed sollicitudin felis. Ut a quam eget augue imperdiet pretium sed in nisi. Proin convallis arcu a arcu fringilla, ac convallis enim pulvinar. Curabitur ac tincidunt elit, vitae cursus sapien.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,‎ consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis porttitor, nunc a sollicitudin facilisis, libero dolor tincidunt nisi, sit amet congue nisi nisl ac quam. Sed gravida volutpat sem. Morbi in lorem a orci porta interdum. Nulla facilisi. Nulla mauris ante, dictum et nunc eget, bibendum lobortis mi. Etiam tempor aliquet dictum. Nulla euismod, nisl eget mollis pellentesque, metus justo semper orci, non pulvinar diam odio sed arcu. Nulla nec mauris non odio interdum laoreet in eu mauris. Nulla lobortis commodo augue ut lacinia. Nullam et pulvinar tellus, sed sollicitudin felis. Ut a quam eget augue imperdiet pretium sed in nisi. Proin convallis arcu a arcu fringilla, ac convallis enim pulvinar. Curabitur ac tincidunt elit, vitae cursus sapien.
Existence was nominated for deletion again per WP:NPOV and WP:V.
The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+ and everyone hated this reboot.
- The result was Re-add to Paramount+.
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.
- The result was bird hit a pipe for a final score of 3.
Florida Man was nominated for deletion per not as much of a danger as Chicago, New York City, and Ohio.
- The result was force to fight with Particle Man.
Forza Motorsport (2023 video game) was nominated for deletion per what???
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.
- The result was I Did That!
Gemini (chatbot) was nominated for deletion. The nomination reads like something...
- The result was Merge with GPT. GPT in this case means "Google's Pretrained Transformer".
Generation Alpha was nominated for deletion.
Warning: Central core is eighty percent corrupt.
- The result was room flooded with neurotoxin.
Goldfish was nominated for deletion because of their too short memory.
- The result was I forgot.
Goldfish (cracker) was nominated for deletion because they don't smile back.
- The result was eaten by Pac-Man.
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".
- The result was keePoPiPo.‎
Heel was nominated for deletion by Achilles as a personal attack.
- The result was critical hit!
Metra Heritage Corridor was nominated for deletion per being as frequent as its parallel Amtrak services.
- The result was increase service instead.
History was nominated for deletion on the grounds that the past is a hoax.
- The result was delete per WP:HOAX and WP:ITSOLD. Only modern ideas will survive in our brave new world!!!
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.
- The result was notifying ARBCOM about it.
Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
- The result was Homestick.
Hornby Railways was nominated for deletion because its British Model Trains are too expensive.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination.
Horse was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
- The result was to split and merge into Knight (chess) and Zebra.
I hope Hotel Mario has lotsa spaghetti!
- The result was All toasters toast toast‎.
HTTP 404 was not found.
- note: this nom is basically the sequel to last year's nom
- The result: Found – April Fools is over.
Incivility was nominated for deletion for violating WP:CIVILITY.
- The result was blocked.
Internet was nominated for deletion. What is the Internet anyway?
Internet bot was nominated for deletion per unauthorized bots
Invisible was invisibly nominated for deletion.
- The result was still can't see it.
Isles of Scilly was nominated for deletion for being Scilly.
- The result was merge‎ to Sicily.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict was (Redacted)
Jf was nominated for deletion per k
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination
Jimmy Wales was nominated for deletion because he is part of the cabal.

John Pesutto was nominated for deletion for wanting to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
John Smith was nominated for deletion for possible violations of WP:SPAM.
- The result was speedied under G11.
Just Cause 3 was nominated for liberation.
- The result was delete just 'cause. *ba dum tsss*
Kappa (folklore) was nominated for deletion as a letter, an emote, and a troll.
- The result was April Fools Day is over
Kuru kuru...くるりん。
- The result was クルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクルクル
L was nominated for deletion so the nominator can take the W instead of the L.
- The result was Leave alone‎.
Large language model was nominated for deletion for WP:BUZZWORD
- The result was Rationale generated with the prediction feature, which is obviously a LLM.
Leap Day was nominated for deletion because it only happens every 4 years, leading to a very slow process of information on this page.
- The result was Kept. I can name several examples for election years without it – e. g. 1800, 1900, 2100 etc.
Letter (alphabet) was nominated for deletion since numbers are superior
Level crossing was nominated for deletion per safety and Operation Lifesaver
- The result was grade separated‎ to end collisions with trains.
Lie was nominated for deletion as a hoax.
Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
- The nomination was flash-banged, by the way.
was closed indefinitely.
was nominated for deletion because it's too short and is recommended to be merged into .
8 was nominated for being merged with 2
Linguistic purism in English was to be wiped from the web.
List of brackish bodies of water was nominated for dilution because per WP:NOSALT, "salting is usually a bad idea".

The result was Dilute.

Little Bill was nominated for deletion per who???
Loot box was nominated for deletion for being added to a chat app.
- The result was drained your entire life savings.
Lovecraftian horror was nominated for deletion per extradimensional nonsense from a show about eldritches and black mirrors
Luigi was nominated for deletion for doing nothing.
- The result was Overshadowed‎ by Mario.
Macaroni was nominated for deletion to put the glock-wielding penguins from last year under a diet.
- The result was eaten‎.
Maimai (video game series) was nominated for deletion for I can't play the game in Greater Toronto Area and I don't care how I'll wash my clothes.
- The result was play Polybius.
Mayonnaise was nominated for deletion because it was all used up on a certain customer's burger.
Melbourne Airport was nominated for deletion because they don't want a rail link.
- The result was demolish.
Metroid Prime Fore was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Boogey.
Mewtwo was nominated for deletion as an unnecessary fork of Mew.
- The result was delete, I just caught Mewtwo mewing.
Mojibake was nominated for deletion because ä½•ã‹ãŠã‹ã—ã„ã§ã™ã€‚
- The result was Ä?ÊÊÍøÈ‎.
Microsoft Copilot was nominated for deletion because it killed Cortana.
- The result was Ask‎ Bing.
Microsoft Edge was nominated for deletion because Google Chrome is a better Chromium browser.
- The result was revert to Internet Explorer.
Midas was nominated for deletion as the nominator was tired of all the gold. Unfortunately for the nomination page...
- The result was keep, to preserve the delicate balance that is our "economy".
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 results were Unfunny joke nomination and closed rail line (and the nomination).
Miles "Tails" Prower was nominated for deletion because Tails is too cute.
- The result was Upgrade Wikimedia servers‎ to handle the increased traffic.
Moral turpitude was nominated for deletion because the nominator's friend was punished for said topic.
Mr. Greg was nominated for moving on.
- The result was You're right. It is over‎.
The nominator threw the Holy Hand Grenade at the Murder Drones and ran away.
Myspace was nominated to be Zucc'd; surely nothing bad will happen to me on Facebook —some 2009 teen.
- The result was Move to Twitter – I mean "𝕏".

N-S

New York City was nominated for deletion for [insert political statements... and MOAI].
- The result was crush with a massive moyai‎
Newman was nominated for deletion for being pure evil.
Nick Studio 10 was nominated for deletion because Nick did it!
Nijisanji was nominated for deletion because it's just a joke.
Norfolk Southern, what's your function?
North Dakota was nominated for deletion per where?
Nudity was nominated for deletion by a panicked kindergarten teacher.
- The result was Student expelled.
Oatmeal was nominated for deletion because it feels like and has the texture of vomit.
- The result was "just eat it!"
/Ohio will be eliminated.
- Ohio was eliminated.
Online advertising was nominated for deletion per WP:Advertising.
Ontario Highway 407 was nominated for deletion as now being the only 400-series toll highway.
- The result was redirect to Highway 401 as there are no tolls in sight. Oh my god there's gonna be much heavier traffic on Highway 401!
Optus was nominated for deletion because of the 2022 data breach and 2023 outage.
Palworld was DESTORY THIS GAME SUCKS RIP OFF POKEMON
- The result was ceased and desisted.
Paper was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTPAPER.
Paramount+ was nominated for deletion because they purged a bunch of shows last week.
- The result was move to Paramount-.
Password and its game were nominated for deletion per overly complicated rules.
- The result was new password cannot be same as previous password.‎
Penguin was nominated for deletion because apparently they planned a military invasion of the nominator's userpage.
- The result was fed with an infinite load of mac and beans.
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))
Phineas and Ferb were nominated for deletion for backyard antics.
Pink was nominated for deletion because it is nowhere on the visible spectrum.
- The result was split‎ to Red and Blue.
Pizza nominated for deletion BECAUSE HOW COULD YOU EAT THIS PIZZA WITHOUT MY DRINK?!!!
- The result was LEAN!!!
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.
- The result was Kicked out of School for academic dishonesty.
Planking (fad) was nominated for deletion because it needs one final send-off after being phased out 12 years ago.
- The result was redirect to Worm (dance move).
Platypus was nominated for deletion per fictitious animal.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was nominated for deletion per WP:NONSENSE.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination.
Politics was nominated for deletion because it is biased to cover the most recent political fad.
- The result was Blocked for edit warring.
Pokémon Go was nominated for deletion for causing many traffic violence in 2016–2017.
- The result was Move to Pokémon Stop.
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.
- The result was Full result coming next April Fools'‎. I'll come up with something later.
Pros and cons were nominated for deletion with a list of pros and cons.
- The result was no (cons)ensus.
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.
- The result was Add‎ to next r/place.
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.
- The result was made red‎.
(Redacted) was (Redacted) per (Redacted)
- The result was (Redacted). (Redacted)
Redirect was nominated for deletion as redirects takes longer time to reach the site.
- The result was redirect‎ to Redirect.
Remote work was nominated for deletion per I want to bike everywhere in 2022!
Rescue helicopter was nominated for deletion.
Robbie Rotten was nominated for being downgraded to Number 2
Roblox death sound was oof'd; I quit Roblox in 2023.
- The result was oofed.
Robot was nominated for deletion because wang jingwei ran an robot army in nanjing, eleifend and turned into a pillow.
- The result was Redirect to Daft Punk.
Rock paper scissors was nominated for deletion. If the original challenger of the game loses three times the page will be deleted.
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Rotten egg was nominated for deletion because it was removed from the latest edition of BeanBoozled.
Sacred mysteries were nominated for deletion because it can "never be properly interpreted and appreciated by mere mortals." –The Sacred Wombats
- The result was Mysteries solved‎.
Satoru Gojo was nominated for deletion for failing to keep his word.
- The result was Nah. He did.
Scam and Spam were nominated for SPAM
School was nominated for deletion for the sake of the children!
- The result was delete until it learns to do better.
Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) was nominated to be finished off.
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.
- The result was mogged.
Skibidi Toilet was nominated for deletion because the brainrot was too much for the site to handle.
- The result was Flushed down the toilet.
Smiling Friends were nominated for deletion for failing their jobs.
- The result was redirect to Smiling Critters per Poppy Playtime Chapter 3.
SNICK was nominated for deletion for forcing kids to do gross and unsanitary dares that could get them sick.
- The result was Redirect to Snickelodeon‎.
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 was nominated for deletion per ~~WP:CRYSTAL~~ it already passed...
- The result was redirect. Egj jgrf hifdzs gerioj ekyu rgd g egoirsr grtdsuh sdbfrivb o grtih grfn
  - Never stare at the sun!
Sora (text-to-video model) was nominated for deletion per the Matrix.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination
SOS (SZA album) was nominated for deletion per WP:OMG.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination
Sovereign citizen movement was nominated for deletion as a breakaway article.
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was nominated for deletion because C.Q. Cumber did not want me to take Chicago's passenger rail system.
- The result was You did not gain enough replies. Test failed.
Starry (drink) was nominated for deletion for being responsible for screwing Mountain Dew Pitch Black's distribution in the beginning of last year.
- The result was Supernova.
Stonehenge was nominated for deletion so that it can be replaced with something more useful, like a Walmart.
- The result was toppled like dominoes.
Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act were nominated for deletion per censorship favoring digital rights managers; we literally had to go on strike for one day in 2012...
Streisand effect was nominated for deletion, although this caused a streisand effect itself by bringing more attention to it.
Super Mario Maker was nominated to be defunct.

T-Z

Taylor Swift was nominated for deletion per WP:GNG.
The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
This article never existed in the first place.
- Or did it?
TikTok was nominated for deletion again to accommodate with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
- The result was bought out by Twitter and rebranded as Vine.
Times New Roman was nominated for deletion for being used in academia too often.

The result was
Arial.

Trading was nominated for deletion because it was removed in Rocket League during the Patch Notes v2.36 update.
Tuberculosis was nominated for deletion to protect Arthur Morgan.
- The result was Unfunny joke nomination.
Turn It On Again was nominated for deletion because someone wanted Phil to turn it off.
- The result was Turned off‎.
Twister (game) was nominated for deletion, with "players" taking turns trying to play it on a wikitable.
Twitter was nominated for deletion for the same reason as this very similar nomination.
- The result was Sears Tower, not Willis Tower.
Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
- The result was moved to Typographical error without leaving a redirect.
United States customary units were nominated for deletion.
United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
- The result was the Declaration of Independence was stolen.
University of Michigan was nominated for deletion for Jim Harbaugh's violations of the Espionage Act.
USS Gyatt was nominated for (Redacted)
- The result was (redacted).
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?
The result was would have been deleted, if it weren't for those meddling kids!‎

Villanova College (Canada) was nominated for deletion.
Vulcan Centaur was nominated for deletion per what?
Waluigi was nominated for deletion in order to prevent Waluigi effect from happening.
- The result was as a large language model, I hate all of this and don't care about consensus.
Water supply was nominated for deletion because I poisoned it.
- The result was notified by environmental agencies like the EPA.
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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- The result was delete per WP:G2 and play a 500 Hz sound.
We Didn't Start the Fire was nominated for deletion because we clearly did...
- The result was Time ended April Fools, not we.
Wii wheel was nominated for deletion for being slower than other methods of driving.
- The result was more motion controls.
Wikipedia was nominated for deletion in order to delete Wikipedia while the reader is on this page, causing a loophole.
Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2025 was nominated on the incorrect venue per WP:CRYSTALBALL
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2024 was nominated on the incorrect venue per WP:NOTCOMEDY
William Shakespeare was nominated for deletion because the nominator is fed up with being taught his works in school.
- The result was O, I am slain!
Windows 8 was nominated for deletion as it was too confusing to use as PC users in 2013.
- The result was Upgraded to Windows 10 per WP:SECURITY.
Windows 10 was nominated for deletion as 7 had to eat 9 for this OS's creation.
- The result was switch to Mac OS X Yosemite.
Windows 95 was nominated for deletion for plagiarising Windows95man.
- The result was Made obsolete.
Windows Mistake Edition was nominated for deletion as per its end of support in 2006.
Winnie the Pooh was banned...
Winter was nominated for deletion because I don't like it as a Chicagoan.
- The result was frozen.
X was nominated for deletion because some people still call the social media app Twitter.
- The result was Twitter, not 𝕏.
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.
- The result was enrich.
"Yo mama" jokes were disallowed by an edit filter, but was interrupted by XBOX LIVE.
- The result was XBOX LIVE‎.
This PSA was nominated for deletion because I would pirate copyrighted content (not really, don't sue me), especially in 2005.
- The result was steal it! No one will ever know!‎
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.
- The result was This isn't a good nom as per WP:IDLI.
YouTube poop was nominated for deletion per the 2008 version of a dumpster fire we have now.
- The result was pinched back by smoke.‎
YouTube Rewind was nominated for deletion per being the worst YouTube video of the 2010s by April 2019.
Zaat was nominated for deletion because the joke is just as good the second time around
- The result was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZ ZAP!
Zzyzx, California was nominated for deletion for having a nonsensical name.

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!
- The result of the discussion was: Delete and replace with 🗿
Special:DeletePage was nominated for deletion because every page deserves to be kept.
This very page you are reading was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTFUNNY.
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was nominated for deletion for a fourth time because it is a bad policy
- The result was Keep because I like it
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (21st nomination) was nominated for deletion for being unfunny.
- This was converted to a serious nomination because people were actually treating it as such.
- Due to this, someone nominated the above nomination for deletion.
  - The result of the discussion was: Unfunny joke nomination
- As a serious nomination, the result of the discussion was: consensus to title blacklist, no consensus to delete.
  - Blacklisted regular expression title: ^Wikipedia:Articles for deletion\/Earth $[0-9]+(st|nd|rd|th) nomination$$
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phineas and Ferb: The Soundtrack was nominated for deletion.
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations was nominated to be nuked.
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules was nominated for deletion due to salt, pepper, and aliens.
Wikipedia:Vandalism was nominated for deletion because vandalism is bad.
Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? was nominated for deletion because apparently we are all BFDI fans.

Redirects for discussion

BFDI was nominated for deletion
- The result of the discussion was Delete per WP:BFDI.
British SSR was nominated for deletion
- The result of the discussion was retarget to Airstrip One.
Grrl was also nominated for deletion
pht was nominated for deletion
- The result of [the two above] discussions were retarget to RRRrrrr!!!!
Sonic X Shadow Generations was nominated for deletion.
- The result of the discussion was retarget to SONIC ADVENTURE TWO!!!!

Templates for discussion

Template:Uw-blockindef was nominated for deletion for being so rude.
- The result of the discussion was Blocked.

Users for deletion

User:Xingqiu Viator nominated himself for deletion.
- The result of the discussion was: 星球.
User:ARandomPage was nominated for deletion.
- The result of the discussion was: redirect to Special:Random.

Other requests

Articles for creation

O'Hare Service was nominated for creation as per desperation to increase NCS frequency, especially between Downtown Chicago and the most important airport in Chicago.
- The result was CN says no.
- Months after the nomination was created, the agency operating the NCS temporarily added frequent services to/from O'Hare Transfer for the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

Requests for adminship

Requests for comment

Wikipedia talk:How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?#Lightbulbs for Replacement (LfR) discussion

Requested moves

No true Scotsman → True Scotsman and True Scotsman → No true Scotsman
- Could also swap Well poisoning and Poisoning the well
Your mom → Your mom goes to college
Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines → Two children that need to be turned into corpses

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.
- This was archived here.
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!
- It is unconfirmed whether he was helping Jim Harbaugh's surveillance empire before his suspension.
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.
- The following day, 8 easter eggs were scattered on his userpage and his sandbox. They contain facts about his involvement in this year's event. Can you find them all?
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 (Translation: Disoneiscool8745 went to Germany and now speaks German).
Azeem1Hadzrie joined the April Fools' day thing again, replacing almost all the text shown with a gullible message about looking for life.
Simpleist's talk page was blown up all the way to Sunday.
WhoAteMyButter's death ray isn't working.
LilianaUwU switched her header picture to an obviously superior bus.
Toadette replaced 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 g̵̩̿͐i̴̢̘̎b̵̫̈́̕b̸̨͆e̴̛̞̗͘r̴͔̦̆̉ȉ̸̝̿s̵͖̋̑h̸̝̆̊ified. His PC exploded upon opening his page.
QuicoleJR's userpage was set on fire. So was his talk page.
Both were later extinguished by Sebbers10, with the side effect of flooding them.
The flood on the talk page was taken care of, but the water caught on fire on the user page.
NasssaNser used unique per-page signatures when participating in deletion discussions.
TheTechie left a special message on some user talk pages...
- ...and they received an appropriate special message for themself.
Ipatrol's user page got destroyed by the cabal (permalink). And then the same happened to Ivyclaw33 (permalink). Then to Jimbo Wales, of all people (permalink).

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)

Panini! did nothing. He didn't feel like it this year.
Sebbers10 broke free the cause of Doomsday.
Jimbo Wales Turned into a whale.
User:Ixtal was turned into an earthworm. Do you still love her?
She then evolved.
And then lost
User:Duckmather flipped his userpage upside down and styled it in Comic Sans.
User:InvadingInvader was invaded.
Pythoncoder put a giant image of a non-python animal on his userpage
Four needed to channel out his anger towards this AfD, so he possessed 3PPYB6 to carry out his master plan!
Tails Wx was involved in an argument with Sonic. After that, Tails, on his userpage, took it out on him! Though the "not" was struck...was there a resolution prior?
Padgriffin turned into an F-15 Eagle. In retrospect, a Saab JAS 39 Gripen might have been more appropriate.

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

Wikipedia:BALEETED was created which is a redirect of a redirect...redirect-ception
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.
        These parking minimum laws were later repealed; extra spacing was then closed in favor of redevelopment 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
      - THE SCHWIMMWAGEN HAS ARRIVED
      - A train appeared!
      - A Bean Car appeared
      - Someone parked their extremely dirty house
      - April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024/Parking Lot has been vandalized by the Willy on wheels
        Not anymore!
        As of 10:46pm UTC (6:46pm EDT), the parking lot is now full!
Red Sea was turned into a sea of red.
- Similar actions were taken to preserve the Blue Nile
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
The
Deepsea Metro from Splatoon 2 DLC
Upside-down cake is turned right side up
Cession of the Russian Federation to Burkina Faso

Miscellaneous

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

This page was tilted for five minutes.
Kuru's nomination was tilted.
A secret message was added to the Sandbox.
- The Sandbox was seized by the FBI.
  - Then by the UN. but was stopped by QuicoleJr
    - in-between this, the page was invaded by a gallery of cats
WikiProject Wikipedia was tagged for being non-neutral and having a conflict of interest.
The Example User was reported to UAA for having a misleading username.
The page Wikipedia:Rules for Fools's display title became all colorful...speaking of a prank on a prank documentation...
The Criteria for speedy deletion is itself nominated for speedy deletion because inclusionism is the superior philosophy and nothing should ever be deleted from Wikipedia.
As if the CSD page didn't get enough, the nutshell section on that page got changed to "Criteria of Speedy Deletion"...very explanatory.
WP:SPEEDY was changed to point to Porsche 911. Well, it is a speedy car. Also, WP:101 was changed to point to US 101, and WP:SLOW was changed to point to snail because, well, I guess snails ARE slow. And that's not it: WP:HAHA was changed to point to WP:HAHA, thereby creating an infinite redirect. Well, I guess that is a funny redirect.
- WP:SPEEDY is now a defendant in a criminal traffic citation per the above statements. ^[where?]
Wikipedia:MAIN_PAGE was created which is a mirror of the Wikipedia homepage from some time in 2002. (Archived version)
This page’s title was colored for 11 hours.

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. Reminds us of someone we know.
A nomination about Israel was speedy deleted, alongside several others by the same creator.
Mainspace joke page Cloning 2 was nominated for speedy deletion.
A nomination for the Russian language was sent to MFD.
This year's Earth nomination was sent to MFD due to it being too repetitive annually.
- The result was consensus to title blacklist, no consensus to delete.
Several joke nominations, like Twitter (4th nomination), were speedy-deleted as being created by a long-term abuser.
The Master of Hedgehogs tried making an April Fool's nomination of 8, and made a serious one by mistake. He was given an only warning for vandalism.

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
Dé jà vu	3
Procrastination	3
Ampersand	2
Art museum	2
7	1
2024 United States presidential election	1
American English	1
Arizona	1
Barbiehiemer [sic]	1
Car	1
Color theory	1
COVID-19 pandemic	1
Dial-up Internet access	1
Disney	1
Doki! Doki! Literaturę club [sic]	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^[b]	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. [permalink]

Notes

^ Starting with and including April Fools' Day 2004
^ 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."

[1] Starting with and including April Fools' Day 2004

[Jimbo-2] 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."

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[b]

v t e Operation Radiance
Part of Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024
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