Wikipedia:Silly Things

This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous.
Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

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This is one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia. Seriously, this page existed before the transition to phase II software, possibly before the internets were even invented. Here is the original explanation:

We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sorta give the encyclopedia some lively color. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an encyclopedia of silliness, so look forward to frequent updates of this page. ;-)
— BryceHarrington

Bad jokes are never knowingly kept on Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their mind (especially on April Fools' Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity, or just boredom. Often it seems a shame to delete the best of this humor which has been submitted to us under the GFDL, because they are truly great, and the geniuses behind these impressive jokes must be extremely intelligent, and thus this page continues on and on.

When deciding whether to add something to BJAODN, please take to heart what Polonius said in Hamlet:

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Or even better, please remember the version from The Simpsons:

Brevity is ... wit.

Sometimes, rather than merely adding a joke to a page, someone creates an entire page as a joke. Or a silly page is so popular that it survives AfD (the first few times) - some silly pages have managed to last for years on Wikipedia, with hundreds of people contributing to them before they were finally deleted. All of these are hilarious. When one of these is too large to go into a BJAODN volume, it is granted its very own page in the Special collections section below.

Other pages

Wikipedia:Unusual requests that have been posted to the village pump

Some of this stuff is actually funny to some people:

Sandbox fun!

Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense/Sandbox In-sand-ity (Archive 1 - Archive 2)

Mailing list oddities!

Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Helpdesk Emails

Weird article titles!

Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles (WP:DAFT)

Stephen Colbert's Wikiality!

Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants

Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/April Fools' Day 2004

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WP:APRIL2005

April fools 2005

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion was first hosted on this NetBSD powered toaster. When that broke down, they had to use solar panels. Hence the reason the page loads so slowly. For more information on the history of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, please see The history of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion

In keeping with Wikipedia tradition, a significant amount of BJAODN has occurred on April Fools' Day, 2005.

In Summary : Screenshots of the day's BJAODN
European toilet paper holder
/Requests for de-Godkingship
Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#0.0.0.0/0
/Feature VfD
User:JimboWales and User talk:JimboWales (not to be confused with User:Jimbo Wales!)
/Cabal (once at Wikipedia:Cabal)
Wikipedia:2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Main Page was attempted before being redirected to last year's attempt at the same.
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue screen of death
/B-Movie Bandit for admin
Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2005/Willy on Wheels for admin, infamous vandal Willy on Wheels was nominated for adminship....(moved innumerable times whilst on RFA)
Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/JIP
VFD Template - Terminator Edition
Modified tabs [1] & [2]
Alternate version of Wikipedia:Main Page
You have a new special message
User:Jimbo Wales - [3] & [4]
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/April Fool's Day
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia Has Been Hacked
German language
Birdidae
Wikipedia
M1126A Armored Combat Deep Fryer
/Susej
/Alphabetical list of all natural numbers from zero to one hundred
addition of a smiley face to the site by Curps [5]
Signpost story about April Fool's Day 2005

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WP:APRIL2006

April fools 2006

As with past years, some BJAODN occurred on April Fools' Day 2006:

The resurrected tip of the day project, after a hiatus of over a year, was relaunched on this day with this announcement:

Special Announcement

Due to generous donations by several large corporations, Wikipedia can now afford to pay editors. All editors with over 1000 edits are eligible to apply. For details on how to register for the payroll,

CLICK HERE.

And of course, the fun didn't stop there...

Requests for adminship/Mathbot Created by User:CanadianCaesar
Requests for adminship/Vandal Created by Jaranda
Requests for adminship/127.0.0.1
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/10th GNAA VfD ON WHEELS! created by User:Ashibaka
User:Jaranda/Articles for deletion/Carthage created by User:Cato the elder
User:Jaranda/Articles for deletion/Arab-Israeli conflict The debate itself was AFD'd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Articles for deletion/Arab-Israeli conflict
The main page for 5 minutes
The unprotection of the main page by Drini
Wheelation process & Articles for wheelation by Luigi30
User:Jimbo Wales, primarily by User:SonicAD, protected by Cyde. Was up for over 12 hours, and over 7 consecutively.
Protect/Delete buttons swapped by User:BorgHunter.
Wikipedia:Esperanza tagged as copyvio by Drini [6]
[7]
User:Gflores adding Willy on Wheels to Wikipedia:Good articles.
User:Rickyrab, User:BorgHunter, and User:Deckiller toying with Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Can't sleep, clown will eat me 33 1/3 (see here)
User:Deckiller finally revealing himself to be Willy on Wheels. He also adds the infamous userbox series to User:Willy on Wheels, and will most likely get blocked for it :)
User:Sammy on Skids' reign of terror begins, with many vandal-related edits.
Metric craptons of userboxes by User:Cyde. See WikiFools Generator. (This is what 1000 userboxes looks like)
User:Deckiller creates a whole new vandal persona inspired by an old vandal. See User:Deckiller/long term abuse/Diddley vandal
Wikipedia's first IRC chat by User:BillyH
Leet by Treec, AKA Logan Kriete [8] (originally attributed to "anon editor", was Treec's/LoganK's IP address)
Extreme overlinking [9]
User:Lbmixpro blocked indefinitely per decision of WP vandals. [10]
PROD Template - Counterstrike edition
Wikipedia:Featured deletion discussions and Wikipedia:What is a featured deletion discussion by Daniel Case
Wikidomination Document by User:Dr. B
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia, created by Sikon
Intentional Prank Unit by Treec/Logan Kriete
Buchanan-Hermit's lack of tolerance for "vandals" like himself.
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ceiling Cat - pic by User:Samguana, nom by Harr o5
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
User:TKE is shamelessly copying other editors by being blocked by the CVU, because he enjoys sarcasm and needs a day off.
User:Macintosh User/User talk:You, by Macintosh User, placed in a link on BJAODN.
Celestianpower added a new messages bar to Special:Recentchanges and it stayed there for 24 minutes.
Many policy pages were officially approved by The Ministry of Silly Walks.
The page Infinite Loop was changed to a redirect to Endless loop, Which in turn was a redirect to Infinite Loop!
An announcement regarding payment for editors with over 1000 edits stayed on the Community Portal for bulletin board for over seven hours.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special:Random
The beginning of Wikipedia:Requests for Seppuku (not strictly April Fools, as it was to have continued to exist past today, but it was deleted)
MediaWiki:Watchlist being changed to stalked pages by Cyde Weys (and subsequent block until 2006-04-02)
Articles for deletion/Main Page
User:Georgewilliamherbert/Jimbo Whale Jimbo gets stalked, Fin at 11.
Wikipedia:No Personal Attacks was approved by The Ministry of Silly Walks for almost 12 hours.
Members of the #wikipedia IRC channel crapflooded GNAA chat with informative and erudite statements about Keynesian economics. Chat log at User:AKMask/log.
Addition of Jimbo Wales to Nomination of new users in need of help
User:Fuhghettaboutit asks a really silly question at the science reference desk and is taken quite seriously.

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"delete" tab turned into "baleeted"

April fools 2007

The Today's Featured Article on the Main Page (pictured) was George Washington (inventor), who was actually a real person. However, the fact that it was featured on the Main Page was obviously a spoof off of the famous George Washington, the President. In fact, the article was created, nominated for featured-article status, and put on the Main Page in a mere 5 days.
Special:Recentchanges was briefly hacked to display a message from Jimbo Wales saying that, because of vandalism, he would start charging editors to edit Wikipedia unless they were members of the cabal.

It was also nominated for deletion.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimbo Wales
A fake article about a truck driver named Bill Clinton
Jimbo Wales' userpage was edited to display him as a Pirate. [11]
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vandalism
A parody of AfD
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VandalBot
Several more minor ones were deleted, as noted on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/AprilFools2007

Special collections

Finally, a few people have gone above and beyond the call of nonsense and put extra effort into their creations. Check out the BJAODN Special Features:

/ASCII cows
/Body Parts Slang
/Cabalman
Cat Nonsense (a collection of Cat article BJAODN)
/Fecalcore
/Fictional letters
/Funny vandalism (includes also funny replies to trolls; sorry, still under construction)
/The Adventures of Telgur the Trollslayer
/Hoax menagerie
/List of shock sites - the most complete version, before the list was merged and pared down - this is BJAODN, after all.
/Mathematical animals
/Peterson-Heimstead
/Saint Denis
/Sexual Slang
/Stuff
/Sysop Accountability Policy
/Toilet Slang
/Wikiality
/Wikipe-tan
Talk:Long s The talk page for the Long s character

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Be careful what you upload. Don't get WP:FUC'd. :-)

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