Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019

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NO! We are not retiring yet! WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN!

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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Please add as many pranks as possible to the appropriate section. If you don't see a section to categorize your prank in, create a new section or add it under the "other" section. Please remember to follow the rules for fools. Also, Ignore the warning on the top, these are all actual things that we are changing, there are absoulutley NO JOKES on Wikipedia.

Ok now you can start

Deletion discussions

Articles for deletion

Future was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON...on March 31st.^{[citation needed]}
Celeste (video game) was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTMIRROR due to containing many mirrors.
Main page was MfD’d for creating excessive load on Wikimedia servers.
Google+ was nominated for deletion as it meets its demise.
America's Next Top Model was nominated for deletion.
42 (number) was nominated for deletion.^[1]
Kneel Before Me was nominated for deletion per WP:IAR.
Pluto was nominated for deletion with a suggestion to redirect to Plutonium.
Citizendium was nominated for deletion.
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.

Intelligent design was nominated for deletion per WP:FRINGE.
Heisei period was nominated for deletion.
Mami Kawada was nominated for deletion per WP:LASTING.
PewDiePie was nominated for deletion (possibly in reference to PewDiePie vs. T-Series).
2019 Formula One World Championship was nominated for deletion per WP:BALL.
Hillary Clinton was nominated for deletion.
Mike Pence was nominated for deletion.^[2]
Alliance of American Football was nominated for deletion.
Major League Soccer was nominated for deletion.
Anime Festival Asia was nominated for deletion.
Daylight savings time was nominated for deletion.
Point was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT.
Andrew Yang was nominated for deletion.
Comic Girls was nominated for deletion.
Boeing 737 MAX was nominated for deletion. ^[3]
Brexit and related articles were nominated for deletion per WP:GNG.
Rubik's Cube was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
WOW air was nominated for deletion
Vwl ws nmntd fr dltn.
Super Bowl LIII was nominated for deletion. ^[4]
Internet meme was nominated for deletion per Article 13
Deltarune was nominated for deletion because Jevil said so, and Jevil can do anything.
Elmo was nominated for deletion because red monsters are taking over the encyclopedia.
Spider-Man 2 (video game) was nominated for deletion because there is too much pizza inside.

Miscellany for deletion

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.”

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

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

This could be Fake News.^{[citation needed]}

Requests for Undeletion

Undeletion was RfU’d per WP:DUCK.

Other nominations

Requests for adminship

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.

Requested moves

BRING OUT, THE FUNNY THINGS!

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.
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."

Then it got secretly changed back.

And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery". Edit summary: "Tom will never catch Jerry. Accept it."

Jerry was flipped upside-down for a bit before being reverted.

Then it was changed to "General Seinfeldfoolery" under the rationale "Festivus is now officially celebrated on May 22".

Then it was reverted :D

And then it was changed to general relativity.

Then it was reverted.

A request was made for permanent WP:BLACKLOCK on this page due to an obvious edit war.

Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.
In response to the above request, the title of this section was changed to "General TomAndJerryPlusSomeSeinfeldAndABitOfGeneralRelativityfoolery" as a compromise.

This was reverted. Edit summary: Jerry will win the edit war.

The title was changed to "General Kenobi." The Jedi shall prevail! This

The title was then changed to "General CrabRave-ery" (possibly in reference to the 2018 song of the same name).

The title was changed back to “General Jerryfoolery”.

The title was changed back to General Kenobi, but he was unfortunatley demoted to Colonel.

The title was changed back to "General Tomfoolery/Jerryfoolery/[BLANK]foolery (please stop disputing over this!!)"

The title was changed to “No.”

The No was then bolded and enlarged

And then it flipped everyone off by flipping

And then it became Yes and was colored #666, only to be reverted back to "No". (This is getting intense!)

And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery" but "with a hint of Crab Rave" was added.

Which was demoted to "Private First Class Jerryfoolery with a hint of Crab Rave" for dereliction of duty.

a No. was added. It's still flipping everyone off by flipping. ^[5]

The "No." was converted to a "Yes!" on the grounds that Wikipedia should be a positive place.

It was then classified.

It was then expunged by the SCP Foundation. ^[6]

They then changed their minds, and made us revert it

Then a memer changed it in honor of the classic song, Rockerfeller street

Then another memer added more to it in honor of the classic song, Overwatch Song.

Then the first memer removed all of that, to show why they are now leaving Wikipedia

It was then edited to "public static final first class Jerryfoolery extends Tomfoolery implements Expunged, SectionHeader, FlippedYesExclamation"^[7], likely in an attempt to appease all the edit warring parties.

The upside down text was then deleted. :-(

It was then edited to "public static final first class Jerryfoolery extends Tomfoolery implements Expunged 3 & Knuckles with a side of macaroni and General Kenobi to the power of Graham's number plus one".

It was then put between "Super" and "director's cut limited edition".

It was then replaced with "Maybe so".

It was then replaced with "GNU General Public Tomfoolery".

Which was promptly replaced with "GNU General Public Jerryfoolery".

All the previous text was crossed out per WP:MADCUZBAD, WP:IDONTLIKEIT, and meta:meta:meta

This was reverted.

The title became "GNU General Public TomandBen Jerryfoolery (Now with more egg!)".

The title then vanished, leaving only a dot.

The title became "Tom and Ben and Jerry's foolery," but the "foolery" was expunged by the SCP Foundation.

This section was then declared SCP-846566657465717565836589657865678270 by the SCP Foundation, named after the HTML character codes corresponding to the string "TABAJAGKASAYANACRF", an acronym for Tom and Ben and Jerry and General Kenobi and Seinfeld and Yes and No and Crab Rave's foolery.

This section's title then become the subject of an edit war.

And it ended being changed to "BenandTom Jerryfoolery."

Then it became its own country.

The section got changed to General Motors.

And then it became "All of the Trickery of Oganesson Sobble".

And then the Oganesson Sobble became SCP-846566657465717565836589657865678270 again.

This page was rotated 22.5 degrees. ^[8]

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.^[9]

And it ended being changed to "BenandTom Jerryfoolery."

Then it became its own country.

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.
This is the upside down shrine. Any vandalism to this shrine shall be met with divine punishment.

Go on. Mere mortal.

Fear the divine vertical text
Just hangin out up here. Ignore me.
. Oh it ran off.

Field Goal was "improved" slightly.
- ...which was quickly reverted to its original form.
  - Sadly.....
User:JalenFolf was flipped upside down.
A user titled "^{[April Fools!]}" joined the GOCE participants list on "^{[April Fools!]} 2019" and their comment was "It's ^{[April Fools!]} and everybody please make as much ^{[April Fools!]} 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".^[10]
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.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WE LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER BUT YOU MUST SUBSCRIBE TO PewDiePie. BUT YOU AIN'T TRUMP
- APE Foundation Tamagotchi! (TV series) Bonn–Cologne Railway Company [[Euro] Stroke Tea party 64K intro Intel Jewelpet
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 upseide down
This page tilted and then
snapped in half
A single-purpose account was created... literally
If you’re reading this, you’ve been gnomed!

The previous upside-down text was then reverted... then self-reverted.

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

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petition to make this thing where we make silly petitions

Please, change this petition if you think you want to make a petition that is unimportant

This Page is too Silly! Well, we will delete it, IF YOU CAN GET MY PARROT BACK!

References

^ So Long And Thanks For All the WikiTrout, page 42
^ Mike Pence may be first Vice President to break a tie on Wikipedia to keep his own article. Faux News, March 32, 2019.
^ Boeing pretends that the 737 MAX never existed and wants to erase it from memory. boeing.com, March 32, 2019.
^ The Effect of the Missed Interference Call. April Fools Network, March 32, 2019.
^ flipping. Wiktionary, March 32, 2019.
^ April Fools. SCP Foundation, March 32¼, 2019.
^ [1]. Microsoft, Undecember π, 2018.23212390324.
^ Tranlsations, Rotations, and Reflections, page 168. Leonard Euler.
^ How to win a revert war. Wikipedia, March 32, 2019.
^ Live Palladium Price. kitco.com, March 32, 2019.

SONO CHI NO SADAME

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJO

The truth

Wikipedia is NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP! NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN! NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND, DESERT YOU!

[1] So Long And Thanks For All the WikiTrout, page 42

[2] Mike Pence may be first Vice President to break a tie on Wikipedia to keep his own article. Faux News, March 32, 2019.

[3] Boeing pretends that the 737 MAX never existed and wants to erase it from memory. boeing.com, March 32, 2019.

[4] The Effect of the Missed Interference Call. April Fools Network, March 32, 2019.

[5] . Wiktionary, March 32, 2019.

[6] April Fools. SCP Foundation, March 32¼, 2019.

[7] [1]. Microsoft, Undecember π, 2018.23212390324.

[8] Tranlsations, Rotations, and Reflections, page 168. Leonard Euler.

[9] How to win a revert war. Wikipedia, March 32, 2019.

[10] Live Palladium Price. kitco.com, March 32, 2019.

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