Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019

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Deletion discussions

Articles for deletion

Main page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 April 1 § April Fools' Day nominations

Serial Number 54129 closed, like, a lot of April fools XfD's less than 1/3 of the way into the holiday. These closes have since been reverted. All discussions were closed once April Fools ended in UTC.

Missing discussions will be listed in the coming days.

• Future was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON...on March 31st.
  • The result was Redirect to present.
• Alliance of American Football was nominated for deletion.
• America's Next Top Model was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was send home.
• Andrew Yang was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Secure The Bag.
• Anime Festival Asia was nominated for deletion.
• Boeing 737 MAX was nominated for deletion.
• Brexit was nominated for deletion per WP:GNG.
  • Theresa May, Jeremy Corbin, John Bercow, Nigel Farage, United Kingdom, and the European Union were all included in the discussion.
• Canada was nominated for deletion for not being real.
• Casino was nominated for deletion. One word: Puns.
• Celeste (video game) was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTMIRROR due to containing many mirrors.
• Citizendium was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Irrelevant.
• Comic Girls was nominated for deletion.
  • The nomination page was deleted for April Fools cleanup.
• Daylight savings time was nominated for deletion.
• Death Star was nominated for deletion because a teenager cannot destroy a battle-station while flying a space biplane.
• Deltarune was nominated for deletion because Jevil said so, and Jevil can do anything.
  • The result was I CAN DO ANYTHING!
• Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Elmo was nominated for deletion because red monsters are taking over the encyclopedia.
• Existence was nominated for deletion per WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT.
• Fair use was nominated for deletion per Article 13.
• Google+ was nominated for deletion as it meets its demise.
• Heisei period was nominated for deletion.
• Hillary Clinton was nominated for deletion.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTGUIDE.
• Intelligent design was nominated for deletion per WP:FRINGE.
• Internet meme was nominated for deletion per Article 13
  • The result was Article 13'd.
• Jimmie Johnson was nominated for deletion.
• King Crimson was nomina - hensible.
• Kneel Before Me was nominated for deletion per WP:IAR.
• Knuckles the Echidna was nominated for deletion, because we were tired of seeing "do u kno da wae?" and other Ugandan Knuckles quotes.
• Lift Yourself was nominated for deletion.
• Links between Trump associates and Russian officials was nominated for deletion.
• A user asked if we could briefly delete Lock so they could get into their house.
  • The result was Homelessness.
• MacOS was nominated for deletion because Windows is superior.
• Major League Soccer was nominated for deletion.
• Mami Kawada was nominated for deletion per WP:LASTING.
• Mike Pence was nominated for deletion.
• PewDiePie was nominated for deletion (possibly in reference to PewDiePie vs. T-Series).
• Pluto was nominated for deletion with a suggestion to redirect to Plutonium.
• Point was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT.
• Recursion was nominated for deletion.
  • Suggestions were made to redirect to Recursion.
• Referendum was nominated for deletion per WP:BEANS.
• Rm (Unix) was nominated for deletion. If you're a computer geek, you'll get the joke.
  • And because it can't delete the System32 virus.
• Rubik's Cube was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
  • The result was to get gud.
• Rule was nominated for deletion per WP:IAR.
• Spiderman was nominated for deletion per WP:THANOS.
  • The result was Stick.
• Spider-Man 2 (video game) was nominated for deletion because there is too much pizza inside.
• Super Mario Bros. was nominated for deletion on the grounds of "Non-notable video game that did absolutely nothing to the video game industry or popular culture."
• System32 was nominated for deletion.
• Thirteenth Doctor was nominated for deletion.
• Tommy Wiseau was nominated for deletion. Oh hi Mark!
• Triangle was nominated for deletion per WP:POINTy.
  • A redirect to Simplex is suggested per META:THEFOURTHDIMENSION.
    • META:THEFOURTHDIMENSION does not exist. Probably lost in the fourth dimension.
  • The result was redirect to Potato.
• T-Series was nominated for deletion in reference to PewDiePie vs. T-Series.
  • The result was Temporarily surpassed by PewDiePie.
• Ultimate fate of the universe was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON.
• United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
• Vwl ws nmntd fr dltn, bcs wh nds ll ths xtr lttrs?
  • Th rslt ws Kp.
• Water was nominated for deletion.
• For the tenth time, Wikipedia was nominated for deletion.
• The Wild was nominated for deletion.
• WOW air was nominated for deletion.
• Yacht was nominated for deletion for not being a collectable.
• We AfD'd 0 because it "didn't exist."
• 2016 was nominated for deletion, apprently people are still mad over it.
• 2019 Formula One World Championship was nominated for deletion per WP:BALL.
• 42 (number) was nominated for deletion to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
• 6ix9ine was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was nominated for deletion in the wrong venue.
  • The nomination page has its own Miscellany for deletion.
    • Which had its own MFD
      • Which also got MFD'd.
        • Which was nominated for deletion.
          • And... Rickroll!
• Wikipedia:Citation needed was nominated for deletion.
• WP:IGNORE was AfD'd per WP:IGNORE.
• Wikipedia:Portal was nominated for deletion at AFD even though it is not an article.
• Past was nominated for deletion because of an edit war that occurred here. This AfD was created on April 2nd.

Miscellany for deletion

Main page: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion § April 1, 2019

• WP:BEANS was nominated for deletion per WP:BEANS
• Minecraft was MfD’d, though it should’ve been AfD’d. Rationale: “minecraft:redstone_block,minecraft:tnt; superflat preset.”

• The result was Speedy Creeper.

• Village Pump was MfD’d per WP:TOOSMALL. The nominator wanted Wikipedia:Village Pump.
• Main page was MfD’d for creating excessive load on Wikimedia servers.

Templates for discussion

Main page: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion § April Fools' Day nominations

• Template:In the news was nominated for deletion as WP:IDONTLIKEIT.

• This could be Fake News. Blame the Script for this!

Requests for Undeletion

Main page: Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion

• Undeletion was RfU’d per WP:DUCK.
• Like this one was RfU’d per WP:APRIL.

Speedy deletion requests

• Earth was tagged for speedy deletion, however a reason wasn't left. According to IRC, the user thought it didn't represent a galactic view on the subject.

Other nominations

Requests for adminship

Several joke RfAs and RfBs had Jimbo's head popping out of the side of the screen.

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DeprecatedFixerBot
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Linguist111 (testing)

Requests for bureaucratship

• Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/ClueBot NG
• Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/ZLEA2

Requests for bot approval

• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeletionBoot
• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/C-3PO

Did you know nominations

• Template:Did you know nominations/Main Page

Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership

• Wikipedia:Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership
  • Result was Speedy Cure.

Requests for Page Protection

• This page was RfP’d with a request for Office protection due to an edit war.

• Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.

• Office was contacted by the Council of Snowflakes about the ethnically charged term (Jerryfoolery) - but which long-term sockmaster to send to the laundry room?

• Since the article appeared to one admin to still be “foolly” unprotected, the Wikipedaimyō were sent out to round up any remaining sandalism.

Requested moves

• An RM discussion was opened in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Requested move 1 April 2019 and attempted to move the following pages:
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football
• Template:WikiProject Football

Requested merges

• Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom → Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
• Morgan Freeman → God

Requests for Requests

• Request for a request that PewDiePie be merged with T-Series

Requests for usurpation

• User:InvalidOS tried to usurp Jimbo.
  • User:InvalidOS incurred Jimbo’s wrath and needs to repent on his talk page.

"The section title of the article that people kept edit warring over" foolery

• A section entitled "Back to the Future" was present on the first version of the page, saying "You got a bit too far into the future, how about you turn back?". This was on March 31st.
  • It was then revived by another user
    • But was then edited by yet another, to reflect on the fact that this section was from the past of the page you are reading now, which by the way, WHY THIS PAGE! It's barely readable
      • Then spiraled out of control.
        • Eventually the original user (That created this page!) gave up on trying to edit because it was being ruined and now he feels unfortunate to be left out
          • Great Scott!
• Somebody Mirrored the page
  • another reverted this
• Before "General Tomfoolery" was even on this page, it was changed to "General Jerryfoolery".
  • The edit summary also stated that "General Tomfoolery" was "no longer invisible."
    • This was the start of a long, and quite petty and/or very entertaining (depending on who you ask), edit war which can be found here.
      • Yes, an entire page is dedicated to this one edit war.
• People kept putting egg in the title for no reason.
• This page was rotated 22.5 degrees.
  • It was reverted by the same person.
  • A different user flipped it upside down.
• And then the page ended up being destroyed saying that April Fools is gone before being reverted. Cue the crabs.
• WP:APRIL was edited.
• Jimbo's User Page got rotated 45 degrees, and Jimbo died at that moment. RIP, you will be missed.
  • He came back to life because of Twinkle.

Someone added a retcon to the warning on top of this page

• • • They updated their retcon, by including the page of jokes on Wikipedia
    • User:InvalidOS goes crazy and tries to turn User:TenPoundHammer into a zombie to start an evil zombie cabal.
      • He makes a request for "Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership."
• An editor proposes creating a print version of the English Wikipedia and distributing free copies to anyone who requests them.
• This section was slightly rotated.
  • And it was reverted.
    • And that was reverted.
      • And that was reverted.
        • And that was reverted.
          • And that was reverted.
            • And it ended being changed to "BenandTom Jerryfoolery."
              • Then it became its own country.
                • Then it had a link to beating a dead horse. (That was me)
• User:K6ka was flipped around in random directions. Hint: purge the page!
• User:Oshwah gets his very own WikiProject.
• WP:HAMMER was made a deity-related stub.
• Jimbo Wales is globally banned.
• Field Goal was "improved" slightly.
  • ...which was quickly reverted to its original form.
    • Sadly.....
• User:JalenFolf was flipped upside down.
• A user titled "" joined the GOCE participants list on " 2019" and their comment was "It's and everybody please make as much jokes as possible!" Sigh.
• Ben79487 went off-the-wall. Apparently, their user and talk pages were tagged with {{Humor}}, even though there was nothing funny on them. (Other than the trout, I mean.)
• The drive section on the GOCE silver star award was changed to "GOCE Palladium Award", with the edit summary "Hey I don't like Ag".
• All the dates on the page Wikipedia:April_Fools'_Day were changed to April 3rd because it cleared up some "inconsistencies".
• Someone tried to transclude all of the previous April Fools Day pages onto this page, but they were stopped by MOS:QUOTATIONMARKS.
  • They circumvented the barrier and actually did it.
    • It was then flipped and later reverted.
• An anonymous user transcluded this page onto this page. It was later reverted.
• All the links on this page were changed to YouTube by an anonymous user.
• Someone positioned this page in a weird way.
  • Others followed suit until all are reverted.
    • This page then become weird again.
• Serial Number 54129 closed, like, a lot of April fools XfD's less than 1/3 of the way into the holiday.
• A link to Crab Rave on this page was secretly changed to a Noredirect template.
• Oshawott 12’s page redirected to Oshwah, in, uh, a tribute of the day.
• Tilt's 'Tilt may refer to:' had been tilt and later reverted.
  • The entire Tilt page had been actually tilt and shortly reverted.
• This entire page got rotated
• Jimbo’s user page is messed up again twice
  • Then it was reverted without an edit summary
    • Then the revert was reverted
      • And then the revert of the revert was reverted
• User:Arbitration Committee was reported for a username violation because the name implies shared use
  • Then the report was removed as if it was a serious misplaced report
    • It was then reinstated
• The list of examples at WP:POINT was reversed
• The policy against biting the newcomers was redirected to the humorous essay of the opposite meaning
• Upside down was also turned upside down
• This page tilted and then snapped in half
• A single-purpose account was created... literally
• This page's title was stylized to display as ik e a:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019, in reference to IKEA.
  • Someone killed this page explaining how April fool's was cancelled
    • This was reverted
      • This page was moved to Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Purge 2019, then to Wikipedia:Wikipurgia 2019, then back again, then to Wikipedia:The Great Edit War of 2019, then to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Battle Royale 2019.
• Someone added a link to the music video of "Loadsamoney" disguised as a link to Avengers: Endgame spoilers.
• LakesideMiners's talk page was rotated by 75 degrees.
• The end-all-be-all edit war began, where people who were reverting certain edits were mocked for doing so, and this page officially became a no-revert zone
• The Section title was renamed to sing the alphabet
• Bob has fixed the title
• This section title has gone into Cyberspace
• Page is in a template loop.
• Whatever the peck this is...
• For a while, there was a section devoted to bacon
  • As well as one dedicated entirely to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
• A botched attempt was made to redirect Reliability of Wikipedia to Unreliable.
• Someone made up their own version of Spider-Man
• There was a section dedicated to A&P, which still hasn't built that proud feeling yet!
• A new way to fund-raise was proposed:

Quick! We need to bring in enough money to outweigh this girl! Break out the gold bars!

The new way to fundraise was dropped at the last minute

• Somebody added part of the well known,"This is fine" comic to describe what was happening
• This page hit the wall at one point
• Somebody tried to retire this page.

• Somebody else fought them by saying,"We will never back down!"

• Then the retirement message got turned into Wing-Dings

• Then it got stretched out really far

• And then was rotated

• An incident occurred with someone trying to make the page only say,"Suck my willy on wheels"

• They were always fought off by reverts

• Someone put a random picture of beans on the top of this page

• Another made an edited version of the Fortnite Battle Royale logo to make it say "Wikipedia Battle Royale"

• The start of this page got extended way too much

• Within the new emptiness, a warning was put about how there was live edit fire

• Satan then welcomed us into the article and called it hell

• Santa then remembered to sign as well

• Satan was exorcised from the article

• This got reverted for a bit

• A proper excision was made, leaving the message about live edit fire there though

• Users commented on how true that warning was

• Somebody made a reference to Country roads

• The second line got changed to Let's a go

• Someone made this entire section, title and body, into Wing-Dings

• It was then manually reverted

• Somebody tried to make this entire article be put under a single section called, "WELCOME TO THE GREAT EDIT WAR!"

• A new section was then also added for when the main article ended, and all you were left with was jokes

• Someone changed the section title to say, "Welcome to Jurassic Park".

• A kazoo theme was then requested to play.

• The sections were removed at some point.

• Somebody put a big cat on the page. Now all it does is MEOW.
  • It was then turned into a dog which loves to WOOF.
  • Then they both died.
• The {{Humor}} template on this page was appended with {{Citation needed}}.
• Jimbo Wales' head was peeking on the side of this page.
• WP:NCR was marked as policy.
• There was actual tomfoolery going on in this exact section, the one to document said tomfoolery...

• Such as one person putting a thing of vertical text

• A user who made their text upside down, and if you were able to read it, you would get gnomed.

• The kids and Digit from Cyberchase slanted a line by 45 degrees to learn about slopes on a graph, but was fixed a couple of hours later due to straight constraints.

Other Jokes

• A cn tag was annexed to multiple discussions at Wikipedia talk:Citation needed.

• The "did you know" section on the main page was name-calling.

Jimbo

• Had his userpage Vandalized 10 different times.

• Was warned for vandalism of his user page.

• Was globally blocked for no reason.

Userpages

• User:CrazyMinecart88's userpage did a headstand. Interestingly, this change was made on APRIL FIFTH!!!!!
• Their talk page's header was also rotated by 270º.

See also

• WP:April Fools' Main Page
• Vandalism on Wikipedia

References

Monty Python