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Deletion discussions

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Articles for deletion

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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.

Missing discussions will be listed in the coming days.

  • The result was redirect to Potato.

Miscellany for deletion

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Main page: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion § April 1, 2019
  • Minecraft was MfD’d, though it should’ve been AfD’d. Rationale: “minecraft:redstone_block,minecraft:tnt; superflat preset.”
  • The result was Speedy Creeper.
  • WP:IGNORE was AfD'd per WP:IGNORE

Templates for discussion

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Main page: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion § April Fools' Day nominations

Requests for Undeletion

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Main page: Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion

Other nominations

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Requests for adminship

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Several joke RfAs and RfBs had Jimbo's head popping out of the side of the screen.

Requests for bureaucratship

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Requests for bot approval

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Did you know nominations

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Requests for Supreme Evil Zombie Cabal Leadership

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Requests for Page Protection

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  • 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

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Requested merges

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Requests for Requests

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Requests for usurpation

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

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To discuss what the header should be after the end of the day, see Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2019/Miscellany header.

        • Then 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 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."
      • 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.
                • 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 Smash Mouth - All Star was annihilated. Seriously?
                                              • And then the title became not a title anymore.
                                                • 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]
  • Yes, an entire page is dedicated to this one edit war.
  • This page was rotated 22.5 degrees. [6]
  • 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
Oh, Hello there!
The Kids and Digit from Cyberchase has slanted this text to learn coordinate graphs!
  • For a while, there was a section devoted to bacon
  • Dragons have invaded Wikipedia
    • They have since left
      • They Have since come back with Emmy and Max
        • But the Dragonborn killed them
  • A botched attempt was made to redirect Reliability of Wikipedia to Unreliable.
  • A new way to fundraise 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 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.

See also

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References

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  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. ^ Tranlsations, Rotations, and Reflections, page 168. Leonard Euler.
  7. ^ How to win a revert war. Wikipedia, March 32, 2019.
  8. ^ Live Palladium Price. kitco.com, March 32, 2019.

Monty Python

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