Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019
Deletion discussions
Articles for deletion
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 was nominated for deletion , but the nominator forgot to add it to the log.
The result was forgot to add this one lol, my bad, let's do it though .
Anime Festival Asia was nominated for deletion .
Birds was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX .
Boeing 737 MAX was nominated for deletion .
The result was grounded until the Note 7 flies over the moon.
Brexit was nominated for deletion .
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 .
Daylight savings time was nominated for deletion .
Death was nominated for deletion "So we can all be IMMORTAL!!!".
The result was Life . This deletion proposal is dead.
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 .
For the tenth time, Earth was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX . It was initially created at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (17th nomination) because 11–16 were salted , and 10 was taken because it was housing the 9th nomination (yup, 9 was salted too).
Elmo was nominated for deletion because red monsters are taking over the encyclopedia.
English language was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX .
The result was 快速保留 . 我看不懂这个胡话!
Existence was nominated for deletion per WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT .
Fair use was nominated for deletion per Article 13 .
Flag of Chad was nominated for deletion for being a WP:COPYVIO of Flag of Romania .
Google+ was nominated for deletion as it meets its demise.
Heisei period was nominated for deletion .
Hillary Clinton was nominated for deletion .
The result was haha very funny.
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. (Last year's April Fools page had a lot of Ugandan Knuckles references.)
Lift Yourself was nominated for deletion .
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials was nominated for deletion , because "There was NO COLLUSION, COMPLETE and TOTAL exoneration!"
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.[ dubious – discuss ]
Major League Soccer was nominated for deletion .
Mami Kawada was nominated for deletion per WP:LASTING .
Mike Pence was nominated for deletion .
Paul Wellstone 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 .
The result was disruptively deleted to prove a point then redirected to Patrick Star .
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.
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 .
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 because "If we delete this our computers will run gooder."
The result was keep with a reference to the nominator.
Thirteenth Doctor was nominated for extermination .
Tommy Wiseau was nominated for deletion . Oh hi Mark!
Triangle was nominated for deletion for being WP:POINTy .
Trump wall was nominated for deletion .
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?
Water was nominated for deletion because it's actually the dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide .
For the tenth time, Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for failing WP:N .
The Wild was nominated for deletion "because it's a non-notable copycat of another film ".
WOW air was nominated for deletion .
Xi Jinping was nominated for deletion .
Yacht was nominated for deletion for not being a collectable .
0 was nominated for deletion because it "didn't exist".
2016 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX .
The result was the year 2016 and everything that happened that year being removed from existence.
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 .
Past was nominated for deletion because of an edit war that occurred here. This AfD was created on April 2nd.
Wrong venue (should have been MfD)
Templates for discussion
It is confirmed as fake news.
And then subsequently found to be not fake. We do not know what is going on here, or why this continued up until 2 days before Halloween .
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/RexxS was also created on April 1, but it turned out to be a serious RfA (even though the nominator was Bishzilla ).
Requests for bureaucratship
Requests for bot approval
Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership
Requests for Page Protection
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
If you missed it, that's your fault.
General tomfoolery
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 it 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.
Somebody mirrored the page.
Another person 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.
It was reverted by the same person.
They updated their retcon, by including the page of jokes on Wikipedia.
They circumvented the barrier and actually did it.
It was then flipped and later reverted.
Then the report was removed as if it was a serious misplaced report.
Someone added a link to the music video of "Loadsamoney" disguised as a link to Avengers: Endgame spoilers.
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.
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.
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 had the font changed to Wingdings.
Then it got stretched out really far.
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".
This logo was later deleted due to copyright infringement.
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.
The second line got changed to "Let's a go," likely referencing Mario .
Someone made this entire section, title and body, into Wingdings .
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.
Such as one person creating a slanted text shrine.
A user who made their text upside down, and if you were able to read it, you would get gnomed .
Userpages
They make a request for "Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership."
They are also embarrassed by their misspelling of the word "rogue," and believes they deserve to be trout-slapped .
Vandalism
As in, actual vandalism in mainspace. Don't try this at home, please.
...which was quickly reverted to its original form, sadly...
Tilt 's 'Tilt may refer to:' had been tilted, and it was later reverted.
The entire Tilt page had been actually tilted and, again, it was reverted.
References
↑ Boeing pretends that the 737 MAX never existed and wants to erase it from memory . boeing.com , March 32, 2019.
↑ Mike Pence may be first Vice President to break a tie on Wikipedia to keep his own article . Faux News , March 32, 2019.
↑ So Long And Thanks For All the WikiTrout , page 42
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Wikipedia%3ATemplates+for+discussion%2FIn+the+news&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1
↑ Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 1 [ citation needed ]
↑ Translations, 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.
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