Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017

Deletion discussions

Articles for Deletion

@ ~ H

• 1 was nominated for deletion per WP:SELFPROMOTION
• 2018 was nominated for deletion per WP:CRYSTAL.
• 2048 (video game) was nominated for deletion for WP:COPYVIO of Threes and as being WP:ARBITRARY.
• 22nd century was nominated for deletion per WP:CRYSTAL.
• Apple Inc. was nominated for deletion for being a copyvio of Apple.
• April 1 was lastly nominated for deletion this year "So we can erase all this things we have done today. "
• April Fools' Day was nominated for deletion per having the same abbreviation as WP:AFD.
• American Health Care Act of 2017 was nominated for deletion.
• Arsenal F.C. was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTE.
• Arsène Wenger was nominated for deletion per #WengerOut
• Barack Obama got nominated for deletion.
• BBC was nominated for deletion for not being notable.
• ToonLucas22 totally BEANED the other contributors using An AfD about Bean.]]
  • The result was wah'd.
• CNN was nominated for deletion because it "Appears to be a propaganda or fake news. agency, anyways non-notable, likely to spread hoaxes to the encyclopedia."
  • It is suggested the page be redirected to Fox News or Breitbart.
• Circle got nominated for deleton per WP:CIRCULAR.
• Connecticut got nominated for deletion because it was "Waaaaay to boring of state to keep on Wikipedia."
• Deletion got nominated for deletion.
  • And that got nominated for deletion.
    • And again.
      • And it got deleted per WP:FOOLS cleanup.
• Diabeetus was nominated for deletion because "Wilford Brimley has cured the diabeetus."
• Diamond was nominated for deletion for being a WP:PROMOTION and a copyvio of Diamond (gemstone)
• Division by zero was nominated for deletion for being impossible.
  • The result was Speedy keep because "We like to live dangerously.".
    • On April 6, 2017 the page was deleted per WP:G3 as a hoax.
      • But it was restored on request at Requests for undeletion.
• Xylsiade tgo oaindtnme ofr dlionete.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica was nominated for deletion for WP:NOTHERE.
• Fat (song) undergone Diet.
• Freedom of speech was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTFREESPEECH.
• Gatwick Express was nominated for deletion for being a hoax as is it ceased to exist in 2009 and all 'Gatwick Express' services are now provided by Govia Thameslink Railway.
• Ghostbusters (2016 film) was nominated for deletion for being "misogynistic" and "perpetuating rape culture."

I ~ Q

• Joke got nominated for deletion.
• Koala was nominated for deletion due to not having the koalafications for notability.
• Let It Go (Disney song) was nominated for letting it go.
  • The result was Redirect to Uranus.
• Limit of a function was nominated for deletion for WP:Nonsense.
• Main Page got nominated for deletion, as usual.
• Maternal insult got nominated for deletion.
• Mathematics was nominated for deletion "Because we all hate math."
• Michael Rosen got nominated for deletion per eaten by the Skyfoogle.
• Michael T. Flynn was nominated for deletion for being the "most OVERRATED generals who conspired with Russia, and a total loser".
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• the whole MediaWiki project was nominated for deletion for being the source of all the chaos on this page.
• NASCAR was nominated for deletion from the Wikipedia 500.
• New York Times was nominated for deletion for being "failing FAKE NEWS".
• No was nominated for deletion because "No. Just no.".
  • Similarly, Yes was nominated for deletion because "Yes.... because yes!"
    • Redirect to Grand Parkway was suggested.
    • The result was No.
      • And it got deleted per CSD G6.
• North Korea was nominated for nuke.
  • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
• Numberwang got wangernumbed.
• Obamacare was nominated for deletion.
• Opel Zafira was nominated for deletion before it catches fire.
  • The result was Extinguished.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• Past was nominated for deletion to solve a mystery of time travel.
  • Redirect/Merge to Uranus, Future, Present, Userfy to God was suggested.
• Planet Nine got nominated for deletion per WP:HAMMER and WP:CRYSTAL.
  • A redirect to Uranus is being considered.
  • And someone nominated that nomination.
• Power management keys was nominated twice for deletion; first seriously and then, with half an hour to spare, as a joke on admins.
  • Redirect to Uranus was suggested, "because Uranus is the solution to everything."
  • The result was Speedy Cabal.
• Powers of two was nominated for deletion as WP:ARBITRARY and a failure of qualifying WP:NUMBER. The edit summary said "Added Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dank memes".
  • Somebody fell for that.
• Psuedoscience got nominated for deletion per WP:FRINGE, WP:OR and WP:BOLLOCKS.

R ~ Z

• Reality was nominated for deletion.
• Sand was nominated for deletion per "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.".
  • And it got nominated for deletion.
• Scott Joplin was nominated for deletion and the submitter declared that any opposing opinion is considered as WP:ILIKEIT and WP:INTERESTING.
  • The result was KEEP! due to being not cool.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• Soviet Union from 2010 April fools was transcluded into 2017 April fools AfD log.
• Spam (food) was nominated for deletion because "There is already enough spam as it is so let's remove this article."
• Spider-Man was nominated for deletion on the grounds of violating WP:NCR.
• Stingy was nominated for deletion with a mine song.
• The Lorax (film) was nominated for deletion per WP:OLDSUBJECT and for being a stale meme.
• Time was nominated for deletion, and with so many Timelines being AFD'd before it, it broke the layout of the section.
  • The result was time to get a watch.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• Second Genocide ending happened.
  • Soulja boy was mentioned for no reason.
• United States was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Ununennium was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON.
• Uptown Funk was nominated for deletion per "Uptown Funk never gave it to me. I'm jealous."
• Uranus was nominated for deletion as sounding like "your anus" by KAP03.
• Virgin America got nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia got nominated for deletion for the 9th time.
  • A redirect to Unicycle is suggested.
  • Followed by nomination of it.
    • and it got deleted by CSD G3.
• Wikimedia Foundation was nominated for deletion on the grounds that every editor who has ever worked on this article is an editor on Wikipedia and so has a conflict of interest.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• Wilford Brimley got nominated for deletion.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.
• Windows Vista was nominated for deletion.
• Wrong Impression got nominated for deletion.
  • and it got deleted per CSD G6.

Miscellany for Deletion

• This page was nominated for deletion as hopelessly outdated.
  • Deletion nomination was nominated for deletion.
    • And THAT deletion nomination was nominated for deletion.
      • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
      • and again once more...
        • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 April 1 was nominated for deletion.
• This page got CSD'd for being a blatant hoax and general housekeeping.
  • [was then quickly reverted.]
• This page was nominated again, to be the last prank pulled before midnight UTC.
  • And that Deletion nomination was nominated for deletion.
    • And that Deletion nomination was nominated for deletion.
      • And again.
        • We need to go deeper,
          • Even deeper,
            • so forth.
              • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 April 2 got AfDed per WP:CRYSTAL., even though it should be MfDed.
  • The result was No.
• User:ClueBot Commons got nominated for deletion.
  • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
• User:Eyesnore got nominated for deletion per WP:IJUSTDONTLIKEIT.
• Usre:Jimbo Wales/Jimbo's user page got nominated for deletion for not being relevant, how original.
• WP:NPOV got nominated for deletion.
  • MfD about WP:NPOV got nominated for deletion. okay,
    • MfD about MfD about WP:NPOV got nominated for deletion. but strangely, all of it got deleted per CSD G6, and the last one was CSD G3.
• Wikipedia:No original research got nominated for deletion per WP:OR.
  • And it got deleted per CSD G3.
• Wikipedia:Notability got nominated for deletion for not being notable.
• User:Oshwah got nominated for deletion because "Oshwah clearly failed to #MakeWikipediaGreatAgain in his election campaign."
• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools was nominated for deletion.
• User:TenPoundHammer was nominated for deletion for being non-existent.
• Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law was nominated for deletion by TenPoundHammer as self-promotion.
• AfD log for Chinese wikipedia was nominated for deletion In AfD. because "so fun so need to go die."

Templates for deletion

• Template:Humor and Template:April fools were nominated for deletion because of so many jokes today.
• Template:Citation needed was nominated for deletion with a message "Insert joke about "Alternative facts" here.".
• Template:April Fools/April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 was nominated for deletion because of "Too many Fools/April around, and bad title too! :)".

Redirects for deletion

• 0/0 was nominated for deletion.
• Obama was nominated for deletion because "the target is no longer relevant as of today."

Categories for discussion

• Category:Wikipedia April Fools' Day 2017 was nominated for deletion

Other nominations

Move discussions

• WP:BLP → WP:BLT, because it tastes better.
• Milton Keynes Dons F.C. → Milton Keynes Wanderers F.C., because it is historically more accurate, and owner Pete Winkelman is really concerned with history.

Requests for adminship

• User:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, a localhost IP, was nominated for adminship.
  • and it got deleted for CSD G3.
• The Hypnotoad, a fictional character, was nominated for adminship.
• Wikipe-tan, a personification of Wikipedia by moe anthropomorphism, was nominated for adminship and won by an administrator invoking Ignore All Rules.
  • User:Wìkìpe-tan acted as, well of course, Wikipe-tan.
  • J947 supported with lorem ipsum.
  • TL22 reveals his true identity, The Voice Inside Your Head.
  • and somebody gave this user an admin barnstar.
  • The page was then nominated for deletion because, as one user said, "I disagree with the closure status, I believe we need a restart to figure out if she is truly ready."
    • • And the nomination was nominated.
        • And that nomination was nominated for deletion.
          • And that nomination was nominated for deletion.
            • And we went overboard. uh-oh.
              • Soon it got deleted per CSD G6, probably by Wikipe-tan with her new admin powers.
                • And after the end of April fools, the final page was not deleted.
                  • But soon, it will be deleted. It got saved by the Humor tag.
  • And the user page called wikipe-tan.
    • Soon it got deleted per WP:FOOLS cleanup.

Others

• C was nominated for Merge with C (programming language). however, it was suggested in AfD.
• Good was, once again, nominated for good article status.
  • And it got deleted because it's over.

Other pranks

• Jimbo Wales's User page got translated to German.
  • And then it was undone.
    • In the Administrators Newsletter for April, Jimbo Wales was listed as having been desysopped.
• Main Page's Did you know? corner got changed in various versions. Alternative version
• ProDuct0339's main page was straight up one giant smiley.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 was moved to Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017
  • Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 was then moved to Wikipedia:April FoolsApril Fools' Day 2017 and tagged for deletion
    • Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 was tagged with CSD G6 for holding up the moving of this page to its proper location.
      • Finally fixed.
• Two sections of this page's contents were outsourced to Template:April Fools/April Fools/April Fools/April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 and Template:Fools/April Fools/April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017 to fool the next editor of the page.
  • And the next fooled editor nominated the first template for deletion.
    • And the next fooled editor requested page protection for the second template such that it wouldn't be nominated for deletion.
• One user attempted to create a copycat April Fools' portal of the original April Fools' main page.
  • It got deleted per CSD P2.
• Wikipedia:April Fools is turned upside down.
• The heading of this section was changed from 'Other pranks' to 'General tomfoolery'.
  • And then the heading for this section was changed again from General tomfoolery to General Jerryfoolery with a link to Tom and Jerry.
    • The Phase Master, The user who made the above edit, had to fix his edit FOUR times to make it look right.
      • It was again changed to General Jerrymanderfoolery as a reference to Gerrymandering.
        • Before being put into a comment.
          • Nope.
            • And was changed to all of this.
              • On April 2.
                • And again
                  • And again
                    • Which was then changes back to "other pranks" not because of the end of April fools.
• Someone actually served tea at the Teahouse.
  • Someone else then proceeded to break the Teahouse.
• The Vandalism Barnstar, awarded to editors who "tirelessly work to make Wikipedia more entertaining by adding hilarious language to articles" is added to the Barnstar list.
• someone tried to buy Wikipedia by 7 Million US Dollars.
  • and someone replied with: "Come back when you have 1.2B$."