Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019

Like any April Fools' Day on Wikipedia, there was plenty of chaos. April Fools' Day 2019, however, was quite possibly the most chaotic out of all of them. Some of the jokes that took place this year were bordering on being vandalism. Some people have said that the chaos of April Fools' Day 2019 on Wikipedia was contagious.

Deletion discussions

Articles for deletion

Main page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 April 1 § April Fools' Day nominations

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.
  • Maybe merge it with XFL (2020)?
• 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.
  • The result was redirect to word.
• Boeing 737 MAX was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was grounded until the Note 7 flies over the moon.
• Brexit was nominated for deletion.
  • Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, John Bercow, Nigel Farage, United Kingdom, and the European Union were all included in the discussion.
• 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.
  • The nomination page was deleted for April Fools cleanup.
• 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.
• 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 the 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.
• 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.
  • And because it can't delete the System32 virus.
• 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.
  • The result was Stick.
• 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.
  • A redirect to Simplex is suggested per META:THEFOURTHDIMENSION.
    • META:THEFOURTHDIMENSION does not exist. Probably lost in the fourth dimension.
  • The result was redirect to Potato.
• 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?
  • Th rslt ws Kp.
• 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.
  • AfD deleted for G10.
• 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.
  • The nomination was removed from the April 2nd AfD log.

Wrong venue (should have been MfD)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was nominated for deletion in the wrong venue.
  • The nomination page has its own Miscellany for deletion.
    • Which had its own MFD.
      • Which also got MFD'd.
        • Which was nominated for deletion.
          • And... Rickroll!
• Wikipedia:Citation needed was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Don't delete the main page was nominated for deletion at the wrong venue.
• WP:IGNORE was AfD'd per WP:IGNORE.
• Wikipedia:Portal was nominated for deletion at AFD even though it is not an article.

Miscellany for deletion

Main page: Special:Permalink/890536133 § April 1, 2019

• Draft:Save the Storks was nominated for deletion.
• Main page was nominated for deletion for creating excessive load on Wikimedia servers.
  • The result was worth deleting.
• Minecraft was MfD’d, though it should’ve been AfD’d. Rationale: “minecraft:redstone_block,minecraft:tnt; superflat preset.”
  • A "Wrong Venue Creeper" was given out by User:Eyesnore.
  • The result was Speedy Creeper.
• User:Oshwah was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was clearly a hoax user.
• User talk:Oshwah was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was clearly a hoax user.
• Village Pump was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSMALL. The nominator wanted Wikipedia:Village Pump.
  • The nominator did fix his mistake, however, so that's good for him.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019 was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 April 1 was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was trout is a good fish, but halibut is better.
• WP:BEANS was nominated for deletion per WP:BEANS.
  • The result was eat them.
• Wikipedia:Citation needed was nominated for deletion. This was the second nomination of this page on this day; the other one was at AfD.
• Wikipedia:TheWikiWizard was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Twinkle was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was useless tool.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was stop teh maddness!

Templates for discussion

Main page: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 1 § April Fools' Day nominations

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

• This could be Fake News. Blame the script for this!

• 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.

Requests for Undeletion

Main page: Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion

• Undeletion was RfU’d per WP:DUCK.
• Like this one was RfU’d per WP:APRIL.

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/DeprecatedFixerBot
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Linguist111 (testing)

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

• Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/ClueBot NG
• Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/ZLEA2

Requests for bot approval

• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeletionBoot
• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/C-3PO

Did you know nominations

• Template:Did you know nominations/Main Page

Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership

• Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership
  • Result was Speedy Cure.

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.

• 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

• An RM discussion was opened in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Requested move 1 April 2019 and attempted to move the following pages:
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football
• Template:WikiProject Football
• On April 10th, User:ARZ100 made a request to change the date of April Fool's Day to April 10.

• If you missed it, that's your fault.

Requested merges

• Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom → Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
• Morgan Freeman → God

Requests for Requests

• Request for a request that PewDiePie be merged with T-Series

Requests for usurpation

• User:InvalidOS tried to usurp Jimbo.
  • User:InvalidOS incurred Jimbo’s wrath and needed to repent on his talk page.

"The section title of the article that people kept edit warring over" foolery

• 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.

• Great Scott!

• 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.

• This page was rotated 22.5 degrees.

• 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.
• Someone added a retcon to the warning on top of this page.

• They updated their retcon, by including the page of jokes on Wikipedia.

• A stalker discovered this page.
• 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.

• User:Oshwah gets his very own WikiProject.
• WP:HAMMER was made a deity-related stub.
• A user titled "" joined the GOCE participants list on " 2019" and their comment was "It's and everybody please make as much jokes as possible!" Sigh.
• 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".
• 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.
• This entire page got rotated.
• 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
• This page tilted and then snapped in half
• A single-purpose account was created... literally
• 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.

• This page was moved to Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Purge 2019, then to Wikipedia:Wikipurgia 2019, then back again, then to Wikipedia:The Great Edit War of 2019, then to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Battle Royale 2019.

• 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.

• And then was rotated.

• 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.

• Somebody made a reference to Country Roads.

• 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.

• Then they both died.

• The {{Humor}} template on this page was appended with {{Citation needed}}.
• Jimbo Wales' head was peeking on the side of this page.
• WP:NCR was marked as policy.
• There was actual tomfoolery going on in this exact section, the one to document said tomfoolery...

• 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.

• The kids and Digit from Cyberchase slanted a line by 45 degrees to learn about slopes on a graph, but was fixed a couple of hours later due to straight constraints.
• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools was redirected to itself.
• A cn tag was annexed to multiple discussions at Wikipedia talk:Citation needed.
• The "did you know" section on the main page was name-calling.

Userpages

• User:CrazyMinecart88's userpage did a headstand.
  • Their talk page's header was also rotated by 270º.
  • It is still upside down as of October 2019 as the user has not edited since.
    • As of December 20, this change has been fixed.
• User:K6ka was flipped around in random directions. Hint: purge the page!
• LakesideMiners's talk page was rotated by 75 degrees.
• User:JalenFolf was flipped upside down.
• User:Oshawott 12 redirected to User:Oshwah.
• 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.)
• User:InvalidOS goes crazy and tries to turn User:TenPoundHammer into a zombie to start an evil zombie cabal.

• They make a request for "Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership."

• They are also embarrassed by his misspelling of the word "rogue," and believes they deserve to be trout-slapped.

Jimbo

• Had his userpage vandalized 10 different times. 1 2 3 4 5 (some of these changes were made over multiple edits)
• Was warned for vandalism of his user page.
• Was globally banned for no reason.
• 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
• Jimbo's User Page got rotated 45 degrees, killing Jimbo. RIP, you will be missed.
  • He came back to life from the magical power of Twinkle.
    • As documented earlier, this drove the user who performed this rotation (User:InvalidOS) crazy, leading to him trying to create the Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal.

Vandalism

As in, actual vandalism in mainspace. Don't try this at home, please.

• Field Goal was "improved" slightly.

• ...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.

• Upside down was also turned upside down
• A botched attempt was made to redirect Reliability of Wikipedia to Unreliable.

See also

• WP:April Fools' Main Page
• Vandalism on Wikipedia

References

Monty Python