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note to self: break everything

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

[citation needed]

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

Miscellany for deletion

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

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Requests for adminship

Requests for bureaucratship

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Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership

Requests for Page Protection

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

Requested moves

public static final first class Jerryfoolery extends Tomfoolery implements Expunged, SectionHeader, FlippedYesExclamation, SCP846566657465717565836589657865678270, Acronyms, Seinfeld, BenandTom, IDONTLIKEIT, EditWar, Madness,
WingDingsText
, StuffEditorsForgotToPutHere

  • 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
  • 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 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.
  • 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".
  • Which was promptly replaced with "GNU General Public Jerryfoolery".
  • 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."
  • The section got changed to General Motors.
  • And then the Oganesson Sobble became SCP-846566657465717565836589657865678270 again.
  • 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."
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • Then it was reverted without an edit summary
  • Then the report was removed as if it was a serious misplaced report
  • The previous upside-down text was then reverted... then self-reverted.
  • Someone killed this page explaining how April fool's was cancelled
  • This was reverted

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!

See also

References

  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. ^ flipping. 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.

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! FAKS NEWS! Sad Outofmario (talk) 15:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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