Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

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Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

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Pre-April 1st

In the days (and month) before April Fools, the "Do Not Edit" notice was modified from "tomfoolery" to "pranking", then to "pranking/tom/jerryfoolery" and then to "*foolery" and then a reference to last year’s edit war, before being reworded to avoid further edit warring.
On March 20, this page was vandalized with the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up (the revisions have since been deleted due to copyright).
3 Hours before April 1st UTC, the other pranks section was pre-emptively renamed "The section name people will probably still fight over" foolery.
Also, 3 hours before April 1st, “Pre-April 1st pranks” was changed to “Pre-March 32nd pranks”, with several other variants intermittently appearing once April 1st hit.
A few minutes before April 1st, the Template:AprilFoolsNotice was modified to contain a "training video", rickrolling whoever viewed it.

Post-April 1st

The "Final Prank" was made and immediately removed.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

Several pandemic-related nominations, which were quickly closed.
- A lot of nominations (and terrible jokes) involving living persons, fictional characters, politicians and sportspeople were G3'd, G6'd and G10'd.
Airbus A380 was nominated for deletion because "the plane is too big and too expensive to be operated economically".
- The result was redirect to Boeing 747.
Anglo-Zanzibar War was nominated for deletion for being too short.
- The result was The war ended.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is nominated for deletion.
April 1 was nominated for deletion to make March the only month with thirty-two days.
- The result was Renamed. to March 32
Arsenal FC and the Houston Rockets were nominated for deletion for "supporting China's separatism".
- The result was "they didn't get it 'cause they didn't read the news".
This nonexistent page《ARTICLENAME》was nominated for deletion without any rationale.
- The result was involved snow set index-ify.
BanG Dream! was nominated for deletion by a rival Love Live! fan.
- The result was THE IDOLM@STER TAKEOVER.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport is nominated for deletion because it is cheaper to tear it down and build it from scratch.
- The result was burn it.
Bielefeld was nominated for deletion per a simulated hoax.
- The result was no consensus.
Bill Wurtz was nominated for deletion due to possibly not existing.
Calabasas, California was nominated for deletion because of Kobe Bryant.
- The result was Rest in Peace Kobe Bryant.
Captain Marvel (2019 film) was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
- The result was No more Captain Marvel.
Children was nominated for deletion per "Think of the Kinder!!!"
- The result was April Fool's is over.
Circle was nominated for deletion again per WP:CIRCULAR.
- The result was Speedy delete. Because I don't like circles.
Comic Sans was nominated for deletion per... obvious reasons.
- The result was No more Comic Sans.
Crystal ball was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL.
- The result was delete per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL.
Darth Plagueis was nominated for deletion because it's not a story the Jedi would tell you.
- The result was merge to Darth Pandemicus.
Democracy was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTDEMOCRACY.
- Fewer voter turnouts in this nomination.
  - Just like real democracy!
- The result was Delete.
Donald Trump was nominated for deletion.
- The AfD page was deleted under the subject of a serious MfD.
Earth was nominated for deletion again. It's the 11th nomination.
- The result was the Earth being blown up because some people on the internet said so.
Emmanuel Goldstein was nominated for doublespeedwise rectification for crimethink.
- The result was unpersoned.
Evil was nominated for deletion for obvious reasons.
- The result was happiness.
E3 2020 was nominated for deletion for being cancelled.
- The result was Cancelled.
Fake news is nominated because of obvious reasons.
- The result was fake nomination.
Finland was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
- The result was den nomination som ingen kan komma överens om.
  - Swedish for "the nomination that nobody can agree on". (Finnish version missing)
Flybe was nominated for deletion for going out of business.
- The result was Move to somewhere.
French language was nominated for deletion. Everything, including the page title, is in French.
- Spanish language was also nominated for deletion.
  - Result was No hay consenso.
George S. Patton slapping incidents was nominated for deletion because SLAP SLAP SLAP.
- The result was SLAP. (with the addition of {{diet trout small}})
Haruhi Suzumiya was nominated for ~~deletion~~ extermination for being a ripoff of Doctor Who.
- The result was "Simpsons did it!"
nominated for dissolution per neither "holy", nor "Roman", nor an "empire".
Homestuck stopped being canon and was nominated for deletion for its own irrelevance.
- The result was get out of quarantine.
Hunger was nominated for deletion to end world hunger.
Imaginary number was nominated for deletion for not being real.
- The result was this AfD was imaginary.
Impeachment of Donald Trump was nominated for deletion as a redundant fork of Witch hunt.
- The result was expunged by Congress and The Admins.
- This nomination wound up being deleted for the same reason as this (serious) MfD suggests.
Kiss was nominated for deletion in compliance with social distancing.
Kitten was nominated for deletion because cuteness does not equate to notability.
- The result was meow.
List of Pokémon was nominated for deletion due to having too many Pokemon in the dex.
- The result was redirect to List of Digimon.
List of star systems within 20–25 light-years was nominated for deletion for being POV.
Log was nominated for deletion, but a page got in the way, so that was also nominated for deletion.
Lootbox was nominated for deletion per WP:IDLI, claiming that "Government regulation won't be enough[;] we need to completely get rid of them."
Lutetium was nominated for deletion for lack of applications.
macOS was nominated for deletion per Mac's major competition
- The result was Blue Screen of Death.
Madden NFL 08 was nominated for deletion, because it's not awesome, baby!
- The result was awesome.
Michael Bloomberg and other candidates were nominated for deletion.
- The result was tired of politician jokes.
Michigan was nominated for deletion per Ohio (too soon?)
- The result was Secede.
Milli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because "they never really existed".
- The result was "you know it is".
Morning was PRODded for being too soon given morning does not come until tomorrow.
Nana Mizuki and two other voice actresses were nominated for deletion to protect the rights of Anglo-dubbers.
- The result was the dubber takes it all.
New Zealand was nominated for deletion for reading the "Maps without New Zealand" subreddit too much.
- The result was always missing.
Nickelback was nominated for deletion per WP:GARAGE.
- The result was free Nickelback album for all the participants.
Nintendo Switch is nominated because were out of stock.
- Luckily the result was restocked.
Ping was nominated for deletion. Pong!
- The result was Pang.
Pink cat was nominated for deletion...
Pizza Hut was nominated for deletion because Domino's is so much better.
- The result was vnoid.
The Quintessential Quintuplets was nominated for deletion.
Recursion was nominated to be moved to Recursion.
- The result was Recurse.
Rick Astley was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Rick rolled.
Sakura Kinomoto was nominated for deletion for being her birthday.
- The result was redirect to Shakira.
Sanity was nominated for deletion per NPOV:WP.
- The result was we lost it.
Scientology was nominated for deletion.
- The result was sued by the Movementarian Church.
Scots language was nominated for deletion.
Sonic hedgehog was too slow. It is not the real Sonic!
- The result was too slow to delete.
South Park was nominated for deletion.
- The result was "Oh my god, they killed the article!"
Space Launch System was nominated for deletion for being a waste of time and money.
- The result was MISSEDTHEJO.
Square was nominated for deletion per WP:POINTY.
- Result was redirect to Geometry Dash.
Stanley Kubrick was nominated for deletion to "settle the infobox issue once and for all".
Thanos was nominated for deletion.
- Same result as "No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man".
A trout was nominated for deletion per WP:TROUT
- The result was no consensus, which is coupled with a trout.
The truth was nominated for deletion.
Uranus was nominated for deletion so that people will no longer !vote to redirect to it.
- The result was redirect ... somewhere.
War was nominated for deletion per ☮
- The result was No more war.
WhatsApp was nominated for deletion because the user texted his grandpa something, and he just responded with "Moo".
- The result was "Moo".
Wheel was nominated for deletion per WP:WILLY.
- The result was on. Underrated word in this discussion.
Wikipedia administrators was nominated for deletion to get rid of them.
- The result was you can't get rid of them until you talk to Jimbo.
Windows was nominated for deletion per Window's major competition
- The result was Get a Mac.
Windows 10 Mobile was nominated for deletion as nobody uses it.
- The result was it died.
XFL (2020) was nominated for deletion for being canceled.
This discussion wants you to join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement!
- The result was Ask the elder.
69 was nominated for [nice].
- The result was Nice.
7 was nominated for deletion, for being a menace to society.
- The result was redirect to 7.
2019–20 NBA season was nominated for deletion for being canceled.
- The result was Time travel to 2018.
2020 was nominated for deletion because the year has been a disaster.
- The result was time's arrow flies relentlessly. As the Wikipedians screeched, looking to banish the horrible year, the year continued on its inexorable path, bringing us all one step closer to oblivion.
2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 are nominated for deletion per WP:BALL and WP:TOOSOON.
- The result was submit too early, closed too late.

Wrong venue (should be MfD)

Special:RecentChanges was nominated for deletion because vandals were subject to the policies and guidelines on April 1st, 2020.
- The result was Please see WP:RCP.
Template:Db was nominated for speedy deletion as a speedy deletion.
Template:Citation needed was nominated for deletion per unnecessary.^{[citation needed]}
- The result was speedy delete as planned out
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was listed at articles for deletion, which then the nomination is listed at articles for deletion, which in turn got listed at articles for deletion, and so on.
- Click here for the three surviving nominations.
- Eventually the joke got stale and anything deeper than five got deleted per WP:G6.
  - However, the deleted joke nominations have since been readded by another nominator next year and the year after.
    - Because Wikipedia's page title cannot exceed 255 bytes (i.e., 255 characters), adding another "/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" on this page is impossible.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 April 1 was nominated for deletion as "unnecessary" and "probably should be redirected to the Main Page" even though this is not the correct place to do so.
- The result was nominate at FfD. Duh.
Wikipedia:Backlog was nominated for deletion per being super redundant.
- The result was Backlog emptied.
Wikipedia:Cabals was nominated for deletion as nonexistent.
- The result was Wrong venue.
Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man was nominated for deletion per "Fuck you, I do what I want".
- The result was didn't feel so good.
Wikipedia:Whacking with a wet trout was nominated for deletion, requesting that the creator of the subject be trouted.
- The result was Trouted.

Redirects for discussion

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 April 1#User:InvalidOS/A Recursive Redirect
- The result was redirect to User:InvalidOS/A Recursive Redirect.
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 April 1#WP:AFD
- I'm surprised nobody proposed redirecting WP:AFD to Alternative for Germany.
- The result was discombobulate if deleted, so defenestrate that decision and disambiguate this discussion.

Templates for discussion

Template:citation needed was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Somebody's poisoned the water hole.
Template:Ambox was nominated for deletion.
- The result of the discussion was There's a snake in my boots.
Template:Yesno was nominated for deletion.
- The result was This town ain't big enough for the two of us.

Miscellany for deletion

Special:UserLogout was nominated for deletion.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was nominated for deletion.
- The result was Wrong venue.
  - Contrary to the result, this nom is within the correct venue as Wikipedia: pages are within the scope of miscellany for deletions.
Wikipedia:Deletion review was nominated for deletion in favor of more bureaucracy.
Wikipedia:Duck test was nominated for deletion.
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion "because Inception".
- The result was to remain in a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.
Wikipedia:Sandbox was nominated for deletion for being a test page.

Other requests

Requests for adminship

Requests for de-adminship

User:Can I Log In/Requests for de-adminship/Can I Log In (moved from Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship/Can I Log In)

Requests for bureaucratship

Requests for de-censorship

Wikipedia_virus_beats_censorship. However this was obviously unapproved per WP:CENSOR so it was changed to a self-redirect instead.

Requests for foundership

User:Jcoolbro/Request for Foundership

Requested Moves

Joe Strummer → Joe Guitarist
- Also nominated as part of the above RM:
- The Rolling Stones → The Moving Rocks
- Nine Inch Nails → 22.86 Centimetre Nails
- Queen (band) → Female Royal Monarch (band)
Dick Vitale → It's Awesome Baby!
Wikipedia:April Fools → Wikipedia:Birthday of Otto von Bismarck

Featured Article Candidates

Amastra subsoror, an extinct Hawaiian land snail (after some initial confusion, it seems to be on track to pass)

Vital Article Candidates

Twin Bridges, Montana, a town of several hundred people, was nominated as a Vital 1 article.

Wikipedians who listen to Living Colour (View extended header here)

The main April Fools' day page was completely obliterated (see link for typical example of what this page looked like on April 1, 2020).
- There is an El Chapulín Colorado reference.
  - Chespirito (see here).
- Shortly after midnight, “Pre-march 32nd pranks” became Pre-February 61st pranks, then Pre-January 92 pranks, then Pre-April 367th pranks, then Pre-April 732nd pranks, then Pre-January 18,352nd 1970, a reference to the Unix Epoch.
- The page had CSS changes applied to it:
  - Rotated by 1, 45, 90, 135, 359, and 359.5 degrees, and 2.01 $π$ radians.
  - Skewed multiple times
- Two users started playing chess, which resulted in Epicgenius defeating Upsidedown Keyboard by moving twice.
- We pranked ourselves thinking that this April Fools wasn't going to devolve into literal chaos within 3 hours.
  - Too many people are stuck at home right now, with nothing to do but edit war on this page. We are doomed.
- An escape page was created to dodge the 3hr of madness, here. (Archived. Do not edit.)
An editor at Wikipedia:Reference Desk/Science tried to make other editors believe he actually created a quantum black hole successfully (with vert subtle hints towards April fools), and hoped for folks at reference desk going crazy over the creation. But everybody thought the editor was talking hypothetically. Turns out, he goofed up fantabulously; and the joke was upon him.
Someone noticed that April Fools jokes are allowed on a large chunk of the site, except for this April Fool's page, where it is now strictly forbidden.
Amidst all the crazy changes to this page in the first three hours, the Silly Things template, which is visible on this page, had an entry added for 1941 April Fools' Day. It lasted a full two hours, from 00:34 to 02:34.
The links to each April Fools' archive on the main April Fools page got replaced with "April Tools Day".
Jimbo became Wales
- It seemed funny at the time, until someone had fully locked it.
  - Someone decided to call out Jimbo Wales for being a sockpuppet of Jimmy Wales.
Pythoncoder blanked his user page as a prank.
- And later replaced it with the contents of User:Jimbo Wales.
A proposal at the Village Pump asked for a new protection level to be created that allowed edits only by IPs.
Somebody changed the link to this page on this page to a duplicate of this same article, where it stayed for 30 minutes.

It got nominated for speedy deletion per CSD A10.

Then it got removed of all documentation to give off the illusion that there hasn’t been anything done during that day.

It was then requested that the title of that page be changed to Egg.

AlexKiddo16 has modified his page with a modified Protegent rap and a cut-off Simpsons logo.
User:Cyberbot I was... um...
uhh, who rickrolled morning?
_. . ..._ . ._. _,_. _,_,_ _. _. ._ _,_. .. ..._ . _._,_ _,_,_ .._ .._ ._,_. _. . ..._ . ._. _,_. _,_,_ _. _. ._ ._.. . _ _._,_ _,_,_ .._ _... _,_,_ ._,_ _. (the morse code from the edit war) translates to "Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down"
A user is going nuts that other users prevented him from claiming Vocaloid voice bank ~~and Chinese Communist Youth League spokeswoman~~ Luo Tianyi as his waifu, spreading images of "General Pink Hair Foolery" all over the place.
- Note: Miku Hatsune was "unavailable" at the time.
No one noticed as of 13:00 UTC that a template has been changed.
Skew was skewed. It was finally righted at 17:56 UTC.
Template:AprilFoolsNotice's training video was temporaily about Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
- another was about a Super Mario 64 hack.
  - the other was about SCP-062.
    - All the videos are now in a playlist linked in the header message.
User:CrazyMinecart88's user page crashed.
Some one added the bio of various My Hero Academia characters to this section.
RayCrisis was renamed to RayCism per WP:COmmONNAmE
Xevious was noted as being a terrible game.
User talk:Epicgenius was bOmbED
The random infobox was slightly recolored and renamed
This statement is false.
this section is now Comic Sans
- Not anymore!
m's and b's have taken over
- It was fixed, but that broke some of the links in this section.
User:ToxiBoi was skewed, warned, and participated in LTA in one day.
User:ToxiBoi~pub is no longer the best squad and is established as a paid editor.
- In addition to that, their page was promptly fool-y protected due to COI issues on their user page (diff).
  - Does me adding this sequence here count as COI?
Username change request: ToxiBoi~pub → ToxiBoi~pub. "Hopefully I don't(!) create a ripple in the space-time continum... But I won't... right?"
Yellow text added
- Made it impossible to read, replaced with purple
  - Now it's Back in Black. Wait, no, Back In Black. Wait, no! GET BACK!
Getting a bunch of Wikipedians to edit an article with jokes is very reminiscent of giving randos on a Minecraft server the power of console commands. All of a sudden it's raining monsters, houses are being cloned and superimposed on other objects, TNT is being spawned... good times.
There were lots of smart speaker-editing in that day.

Not-so-fun things

A genuine request for protection of the main April Fools' day page was made.
History repeated itself and poor quarantined Wikipedia editors had to create a new Edit War page due to the edit war of this section's title.
Some people didn't like 17 Million Fuck Offs at WP:DYK.
Someone created a proposal to community ban Jimbo but it got deleted.
A user receives TROUT for creating a community ban proposal and an WP:SPI case as a joke.
Several users were warned about contributing to the insanity.
An RfC to improve April Fools' being held here.
People who ~~didn't have a sense of humor~~ wanted to maintain order on this site determined that turning the April Fools Day pages into an unintelligible mess is prohibited in the future.