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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Toonmon2005 (talk | contribs) at 02:47, 5 June 2007 (Deleting a deleted link, and restoring one that had been deleted earlier, even though it still exists.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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.

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 it is decided that these pages should not be articles, they are renamed here (to preserve edit history and keep compliance with the GFDL) as a sub-page, with the resultant redirect from the article namespace then deleted. You can see several of these in the Special collections and sub-pages section below.

In 2007, due to concerns raised about this project violating GFDL, many of the pages where content from deleted articles had been copied and pasted here, rather than renamed so that edit history was preserved, were deleted. However, there is an on-going effort to find the original pages from which the copies and pastes came, undelete them, and rename them here in a GFDL-compliant manner, which you are welcome to assist in.

Please note that BJAODN is subject to the same prohibitions on copyright violations, libel, attacks, and advertising, per our copyright, biography of living persons, and other project-wide content polices, as the rest of the project. Such content must not be placed here.

Greatest Hoax of All Time

This page was created by a single user, tjproechel, and was active for a little more than two weeks. Its fictional nature was only discovered when no google search results were found for the Upper Peninsula War. This page is not so much funny, as truly brilliant.

Other pages

Mailing list oddities!

Strange Unblock requests!

Weird article titles!

Special collections and sub-pages

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:

Sub-pages

Joke article revisions

  • List of shock sites — the most complete version, before the list was pared down. This is BJAODN, after all.

Others

Fair Use Criteria

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

See also

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