Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2015

List of events:

Nominations for deletion

Articles

• Barack Obama was recommended for deletion by a letter signed by 47 Republican members of Congress.
• Delete was RfDed by Bobherry because it has to delete it in its name and was warned by Nakon.
• Internet Explorer was nominated for deletion.
• Internet was nominated for deletion for a COI.
• B was nominated for deletion for being a ripoff of the letter A.
• The Avengers (2012 film) was nominated for deletion since Batman said so!
• The Dark Knight Rises was nominated for deletion since the Avengers said so!
• The Daily Show was nominated for deletion for not being daily.
• List of planets courageously saved by The Doctor was snowballed for deletion successfully by the cabal as an obvious neutral point of view policy violation.
• Wikipedia community was AfDed by Bobherry for a possible COI for the 3rd time.
• WXYZ-TV was nominated for deletion because of its call letters.
• Radium was nominated for deletion because someone hates radioactivity.
• Radiation was nominated for deletion because of it being a massive health hazard.
• Blurred Lines was nominated for deletion because of WP:COPYVIO concerns.
• Earworm was nominated to merge with DuckTales
• Bird is nominated for deletion for being a duplicate of the article word.
• Sonic the Hedgehog is nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia was nominated for deletion (for the seventh time).
• Ghost is nominated for deletion.
• God is nominated for deletion for a probable hoax.
• Triangle is nominated for deletion due to Illuminati confirmation.

Templates

• Template:Citation needed is nominated for deletion
• WikiLeon nominated Template:Wikipedia for being a huge self reference.

Categories

• Category:Recursion is nominated for merging with Category:Recursion
• Category:Hidden categories was nominated for deletion for creating infinite loops between categories, in which itself and its subcategories ("container" and "tracking") are categorized under it.

Project pages

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Keegan 2

• Since moved to userspace.

Special pages

• WP:Rules for Fools is nominated for deletion. (diff)
  • Which is then nominated for deletion.
    • And so on
      • and so forth
        • forever and ever... (twice!)
          • The second of which is then proposed for deletion.
            • And then all of the deletion discussions are sadly deleted.
• Special:UserLogout is nominated for deletion on the basis that no one should ever log out.
• Stub was nominated for deletion by Bobherry for being a HUGE STUB!
• WP:Administrator Intervention against Vandalism was nominated for deletion per WP:BURO by -G.A.WILMBROKE [ USER / ALT / TALK / CONTRIBS ]
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not is nominated for deletion on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a list of things that Wikipedia is not.
• The Manual of Style is nominated for deletion for being a manual.
• WP:HAMMER is nominated for violating WP:HAMMER because no one knows User:TenPoundHammer's real name.
• Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion by User:Twozenhauer as it is a hoax.

User pages

• Jimbo's user page is messed with again
• TenPoundHammer's userpage is turned upside-down, and the lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are added as an HTML comment.
• ToonLucas22's userpage is blanked and denied access.

Other nominations

• User:Duck is accused of sock puppetry per WP:DUCK.

General Tomfoolery

• User:Coffee changed his signature to impersonate Jimmy Wales
  • ....And then General Custer
• User:Wgolf votes Feldkahl to be the article of the day!
• Someone decided that edit summaries should all in capitals
• Upside-down cake is turned right-side up.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters was converted to big capital letters and all full stops were converted to two exclamation points to constitute shouting.
• User:Daniel Case converted Lavrenti Beria to a redirect to Bering Sea, as per the Great Soviet Wikipedia.
• Edible Book Festival seems to be an elaborate ruse. [1].
• User:Alphius took the first step toward adding a new level of bureaucracy to the article deletion process. (diff)
  • Which is then nominated to be nominated for deletion because Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. (diff)
    • And then the same page is seriously nominated for speedy deletion after the day ended.
      • Then the speedy deletion is declined and the page is moved to userpace instead.
• This section was renamed from "General tomfoolery" to "General jerryfoolery" as a Tom & Jerry pun.
• This sentence's article was deleted.
• Template:humor was changed to be a faux CSD template. (diff)