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'''Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Did You Know" items for April Fools' Day 2018'''

Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Featured Article]]s 
* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Today's Featured Picture]]
* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Featured List]]
* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/On This Day]]
* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/In The News]]
* [[Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know]]

Ground rules for this activity along with a list of participants may be found on the [[Wikipedia talk:April Fool's Main Page|Main talk page]].

== Rules ==

April Fools Did You Know items should present some trivia that can be presented in a manner that is possibly unbelievable to the reader. This can be done through words or names that mean two different things, shortened names, unbelievable facts, unrelated facts, etc. The normal [[Wikipedia:Did_you_know#DYK_rules|written]] and [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Additional rules| unwritten]] rules for Did You Know (DYK) are followed, with these exceptions...
* April Fools DYKs are subject to the usual exclusions regarding prior Main Page appearance, but the normal rules for special occasions do ''not'' apply: the article need only have been created/expanded/brought to GA in the year immediately preceding the April{{nbsp}}1 on which it will appear.
* Proper [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)|capitalization]], [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)| title formatting]], and [[Wikipedia:Linking|linking standards]] may be disregarded only if adhering to them will tend to give away the joke. This should be done as little as possible. (example from 2009: "... that [[For_the_Love_of_Ray_J#Contestants|Caviar]], [[For_the_Love_of_Ray_J#Contestants|Chardonnay]], and [[For_the_Love_of_Ray_J#Contestants|Hot Cocoa]] compete '''[[For the Love of Ray J|for the love of Ray J]]'''? ")

All other Wikipedia rules and guidelines still apply. Pay special attention to Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons| Biographies of living persons guidelines]] if your hook relates to a living person. 

Remember, we are trying to confuse and mislead Wikipedians and visitors, not lie to them. Keep all hooks and articles completely truthful, but outrageous. (examples from 2010: A hook claiming [[Dmitry Gennadyevich Medvedev|Dmitry Medvedev]] died in 2005 is ok, saying [[2010 Georgian news report hoax|Mikheil Saakashvili died]] is not.)

===How to review a nomination===
Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets the DYK criteria ''except'', per above, the normal [[WP:Did you know/New article|new enough]] rule ([[WP:Did you know/Article length|long enough]], no serious [[Wikipedia:Did_you_know#contentrules|editorial or content issues]]) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines|supplementary guidelines]].

If you want to confirm that an article is ready to be placed on a later [[WP:DYKTN#update|update]], or note that there is an issue with the article or hook, please use the following symbols to point the issues out:
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
! width=4% | Symbol !! width=10% | Code !! width=5% | DYK Ready? !! width=61% | Description
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
| [[Image:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKtick}}</nowiki> || Yes || align="left" | No problems, ready for DYK
|- align="center"
| [[Image:Pictogram voting keep.svg|16px]] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKtickAGF}}</nowiki> || Yes || align="left" | Article is ready for DYK, with a foreign-language or offline hook reference accepted in good faith
|- align="center"
| [[Image:Symbol question.svg|16px]] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYK?}}</nowiki> || Query || align="left" | DYK eligibility requires that an issue be addressed. Notify nominator with <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[template:DYKproblem|DYKproblem]]{{!}}''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
|- align="center"
| [[Image:Symbol possible vote.svg|16px]] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYK?no}}</nowiki> || Maybe || align="left" | DYK eligibility requires additional work. Notify nominator with <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[template:DYKproblem|DYKproblem]]{{!}}''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
|- align="center"
| [[Image:Symbol delete vote.svg|16px]] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKno}}</nowiki> || No || align="left" | Article is either completely ineligible, or else requires considerable work before becoming eligible
|}

Please consider using <nowiki>{{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}}</nowiki> on the nominator's talk page, in case they do not notice that there is an issue.

== Nominations ==

===Awaiting verification===
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===Verified hooks===
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{{Template:Did you know nominations/Mud pie}}
{{Did you know nominations/Squirrel-sponsored cyberterrorism}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/SAM-N-8 Zeus}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Pelican (bomb)}}
{{Did you know nominations/Trump Street}}
{{Did you know nominations/Zherichinius}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Hitler-Ransomware}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Jigsaw (ransomware)}}
{{Did you know nominations/Gowanus Batcave}}
{{Did you know nominations/Jōkō Obama}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.}}
{{Did you know nominations/Woodside, Old Windsor}}
{{Did you know nominations/Robert Bartholomew (sociologist)}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Edmund Hillary}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/United States v. Forty-Three Gallons of Whiskey}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Christ the Lord Is Risen Today}}
{{Template:Did you know nominations/Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days}}