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Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

!! was nominated for deletion on the same basis as First.
2020 United States presidential debates got nominated for deletion because Saturday Night Live did it better.
2022 FIFA World Cup was nominated for deletion because the tournament hasn't started yet.
727 was nominated for deletion WYSI.
777 (number) got nominated for deletion due to Carrie Lam.
The 94th Academy Awards was nominated for deletion, twice.
Advertising was nominated for deletion due to WP:NOADS.
Adult Swim was nominated for deletion to put an end to Pibby's traumatization.
Aglet was nominated for deletion because it was the one word that was forgetful to remember.
: , .
Stop posting about Among Us! I'm tired of seeing it!
Animal Crossing was nominated for deletion due to not being able to cross animals in the game.
Andrew Yang was nominated for deletion due to failing WP:GNG since not much attention was on him during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Anthony's poison arrow frog, a single species of poison dart frog, was nominated for deletion for being the most evil frog to ever exist, apparently having tortured the nominator.
April Fools' Day was, yet again, nominated for deletion.
Arminia Bielefeld was nominated for deletion because no evidence of this soccer team exists.
Arthur (TV series) was nominated for deletion for being cancelled.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is nominated for deletion.
Atlantic Records was nominated for deletion because WP:YOUSUCK.
Page Is Delete
The Backrooms were nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:HOAX.
Benedict Arnold was nominated for deletion because we never heard of him.
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Big and Small were both nominated for deletion (Big, Small), with everything being big and small respectively.

Big was closed for Don't make it bigger anymore as per MOS:FONTSIZE

Bird was nominated for deletion due to being a hoax.
Blank Space was nominated for deletion with a blanked XfD template.

...and then the nomination subpage itself got blanked.

Blue was nominated for deletion because Red is so much better.
Blue Archive was nominated for deletion. Kids should not be allowed to use military equipment.
Bold was nominated for deletion and embolded.
Bruno Madrigal was nominated for deletion because we don't talk about Bruno.
- Bruno (name) was also nominated for deletion for the same reason.
It's time to say farewell to Celeste (video game).
C*nc*rsh*p was n******** f** d******* per WP:NOTC*******.
Character (arts) was nominated for deletion since a fictional character does not exist.
Comic Sans and Papyrus were nominated for deletion for being regarded as two of the worst fonts.
- The font was apparently changed to Edwardian Script for mobile users.
Confederate States of America was nominated for deletion to make up for all the horrible things done to the Black population of the United States.

The Gettysburg Address was dropped once per WP:IDL.

Cornelis van Haarlem was nominated for deletion for WP:BBBBOOOOOORRRRRIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!
CSD was to be CSD'd.
Cupcake was nominated for deletion on the grounds that someone ate them all.
Cyclone Cody was nominated for deletion for personally attacking the one person who died in the storm.
Deltarune was nominated for deletion per WP:SPAM thanks to a certain [[Big Shot]].
Disambiguation (disambiguation) was nominated for deletion.
Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro was nominated for deletion because what better way to celebrate the titular character's birthday than by deleting her show's article?
Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion because of Twitter stans.
Duck failed the duck test and was nominated for deletion and blocking.
E was nominated for deltion.
- The rsult was spdy dlt for bing a blatant hoax.
The Earth was nominated for deletion because Mars is sweeter and someone locked all the Earth nominations.
- The result was delete, it’s all in the Milky Way.
- Someone else nominated Earth for deletion. It was never funny, but when has that ever stopped us?
E3 2022 was nominated for deletion for being canceled.
Electronic Arts was nominated for deletion to provide editors with a sense of pride and accomplishment for deleting it.
Engineer was nominated for deletion per "Engineer Gaming".
Epic Games Store was nominated for deletion.
Eric Cartman was nominated for deletion because Cartman used Big Smoke's quote.
February 1900 was nominated for deletion due to being a leap year in a 400th year.
First was nominated for deletion.
- Appropriately, this was the first April Fools Day prank of the day.
- The result was if you're not first, you're last!
Ford Motor Company was nominated for deletion because it was not built tough enough.
Galileo Galilei was nominated for deletion to the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody.
GameCube was nominated for deletion because cubes are a boring shape.
The Game (mind game) was nominated for deletion, with a suggestion to delete User:Melecie as well.
Genshin Impact was nominated for deletion because the nominator lost 50/50 to Qiqi.
Geometry Dash was nominated for deletion because 2.2 hasn't come yet.
grammar and speling werenominating for deltedion per WP:USELESS]]
Honkai Impact 3rd was nominated for deletion because of all the honkai energy present on the page.
Ian Nepomniachtchi basically nominated himself for deletion after a 27... c5
Internet forum was nominated for deletion per WP:FORUM.
Htims Tteknip Adaj was nominated for deletion because Will Smith explicitly said not to mention her name.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land was nominated for deletion for being forgotten in time.
- Kiwi Farms was nominated for deletion for not having anything to do with kiwis.
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon was nominated for deletion for being too WP:LONG.
Like was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
Line (geometry) was nominated for deletion for similar reasons.
Linux was to be redirected to Windows 10.
List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOMUCH and WP:JUNK.
Articles about long lived tropical cyclones were nominated for deletion per WP:TOOLONG.
Lorem ipsum got nominated for deletion per being patent nonsense.
Los Angeles Lakers was to be deleted and TNT'd to rebuild the team.
LOWERCASE WAS NOMINATED FOR DELETION. uppercase was, too.
Mario (given name) was nominated for deletion due to being copyrighted by Nintendo.
Max Weber Sr. was nominated for deletion because he was from a place that doesn't exist and so probably didn't exist himself.
Mewkledreamy was nominated for deletion for not forcing you to have a dream with Mew.
Michigan Wolverines football was nominated for deletion for breaking the nominator's heart last year.
Microtransaction was nominated for deletion for Content only available to Premium users. Click here to join for $9.99
- To view the result of the discussion readers have to donate $25 worth of Bitcoin to the Wikimedia Foundation.
MJL was nominated for deletion by JJP.
Multi-function display was nominated for deletion because the abbreviation MFD clashes with Wikipedia:MFD.
The Monarchy of Barbados was abolished, and its Wikipedia article was to be abolished too.
New York City was nominated for deletion due to the moais.

The AfD only added more 🗿.

Nine Inch Nails was nominated to be deleted and moved to 22.86 Centimeter Nails.
Non-fungible token was nominated for deletion for being easy to right click.
Not was nominated for deletion per WP:NOT.
Not For Broadcast was nominated for deletion per WP:CENSORSHIP.
Number was nominated for deletion since we could just write it out instead.
Penis was slammed in the car door.
GPT-2 generated several fake users and endless rambling about planets so Planet of the Apes could be nominated for deletion.

The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by five degrees.

The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by 420 degrees.

It was then rotated 2001 degrees by a very angry ape.

And then 1968 degrees

And then 69 degrees

And then NEGATIVE 69 degrees.

Then it was turned upside-down by ANOTHER angry ape.

Then the apes had a change of heart.

Then the ape who had a change of heart rotated it to 270 degrees.

Then the text went back to normal while the ape got on a horse and left the building.

After a non-canonical

skew

of the text, GPT-2 summoned more bots to the discussion.

And then the nomination was itself nominated for deletion to stop the apes from taking over the Earth

Then Wikipe-tan died on the page.

Then she was brought back to life.

And then died again.

Then the angry apes came back.

Then the nomination was ceremoniously rotated 100000 degrees

Then the text was

skewed

again, but by 260 degrees.

As a result of such acts of vandalism on the page, a request for comment was started to prevent it in the future.

PlayStation 5 was nominated for deletion since it is always out of stock, to prevent disappointing people.
POV was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NPOV.
Profanity was freaking nominated for deletion because why the hell not?

The result was muted for triggering the Discord bots.

Punctuation was nominated for deletion, probably the true first article nominated on this day. Take that, "First"!
Racing was nominated for deletion to stop editors from racing to nominate articles on this day.

"Normal" on this was liked to Speed Racer

The link then later changed to Running in the 90s

Then it was changed to Bicycle Race

Recognition was nominated for deletion per WP:Deny recognition.
Research was seen as violating the policy on No original research and was nominated for deletion.
Rob Manfred was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
Русский рубль было номинирован на удаление за бесполезность, при этом вся страница на русском языке.
Rutland was nominated for deletion for not being real.
Wikipedia:Sandbox was nominated for deletion for being filled with test edits.
Saruman was nominated for deletion for being Gandalf.
SCP Foundation was nominated for deletion by consensus of the O5 council. There will be no further communication.
Shazaam was nominated for deletion.
SilvaGunner was nominated for deletion... or was it SiIvaGunner... or the Paul Brothers?
Sock puppet account was nominated for deletion for WP:SOCKPUPPETRY.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (film) was nominated for deletion as it's upcoming release date would make it interfere with Rex Manning Day.
Squid Game was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
Stephen Colbert was nominated for deletion to prove the non-existence of WP:WIKIALITY.
Subaru Natsuki was nominated for deletion for similar reasons, although he was mostly damned.
Second American Civil War was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON
Thirteen Colonies was nominated for deletion per the Declaration of Independence.
Thou wast nominat'd for deletion.
Tic-tac-toe was nominated for deletion, with "players" taking turns voting delete or keep. For the record, it ended as a cat's game.
Tinder (app) was nominated for deletion because a user wanted to know if they should delete Tinder.
Toki Pona was nominated for deletion due to being a non-notable con-langue.

The nominator accidentally summoned the Tokiponist cabal.

Train was nominated for deletion due to COI by User:Trainsandotherthings.
Troll was nominated for deletion to stop feeding it.
Ty Van Burkleo was nominated for deletion for being WP:FIRED.
Up (2009 film) was nominated for deletion because Rick Astley will never give you it.
Use was nominated for deletion as requested by a certain psychokinetic hedgehog.
Walker Hayes was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOTCOUNTRYMUSIC.
Wario left Twitter and decided to add in an AfD for good measure.
White was nominated for deletion per WP:ACCESSIBILITY reasons.
Uncyclopedia was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT
Vladimir Putin was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
"Weird Al" Yankovic was nominated for deletion because he's WP:WEIRD.
Where's Wally? was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
Will Smith was nominated for deletion per WP:SLAP.
WikiHow was nominated for deletion for WP:NOTHOWTO.
Wikipedia was nominated for deletion. Twice.
Wikitravel was nominated for deletion for hindering the development of Wikivoyage.
Windows 11 was nominated for deletion for being only a modern Windows Vista with more ads and tracking.
Without Me (Eminem song) was nominated for deletion because it feels so empty, without him.
Wordle was nominated for deletion, because the knockoffs are better.
Trainsandotherthings nominated Work for deletion so that he don't have to work.
Wyoming was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
YouTube was nominated for deletion due to conflict of interest displayed by the YouTube userbox.

...A reason so random, it probably is true.

Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants was nominated for deletion for not being notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law is nominated for violating TenPoundHammer's Law. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 14:17, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects for discussion

Hammer time was nominated for deletion. Filing on behalf of a third party, to stop hammer time.
"Hoax" was nominated for deletion. Creating "Hoax"es is absolutely not allowed in Wikipedia.
Recursion was nominated for redirection to Recursion.

Templates for discussion

Template:Citation needed was nominated for deletion because of Wikipedia:Citation needed.

This was later nominated for deletion.

Template:AprilFoolsNotice was nominated for deletion because April Fools should last forever.

Users for deletion

User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for deletion because someone had to.
User:Leatherbear was nominated for deletion because the user claims to be based in a nonexistent city and so probably doesn't exist.

Other requests

Requests for adminship

help my account is compromise idk what that means

Requests for bureaucratship

Requested moves

Milton Keynes Dons F.C. → Spartan South Midlands Football League
Scotland → England
Nickel (United States coin) → Aluminum (United States coin), since nickels cost more than a nickel to produce

Featured article candidates

Featured picture candidates

File:Inside a cornflakes bag – 360° photo.jpg was nominated for featured picture.

In the News nominations

A very belated nomination was made for D-Day

Project proposals

Wikipedia:Featured sentences was launched
A wikiproject on evilness was proposed, anticipating minimal controversy over scope
Wikipedia:WikiProject Users was launched to systematically assess the quality of Wikipedia editors
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against humor was launched, Wikipedia is serious business

User page pranks

User:Mr Reading Turtle has a very real page to block April Fools day if you are tired of the jokes.
Spirit of Eagle tilted his page by 4 degrees, then got smashed by the almighty whale. A trout was added later.
- Then it was tilted by 184 degrees
The furry Whisper the Wolf symbol on User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki got too big.
Melecie substituted the entirety of The Game (mind game) over at their page. In Comic Sans small font. And fixed to the page.
Disoneiscool8745's page was graced with 4 trout slappings and two whale smashings
- The random link that appeared last year returned. This time saying "It has returned" while linking to duckroll.
  - The link then got changed to a clip of Bionic Max
    - Then it was deleted
Lovable98158's page was then graced with 4 trout slappings and two whale smashings, with a side of The Bee Movie script.
- The Trout slappings and whale smashings have been cooked and deepfried, and the bee movie script disappeared
User:EEng has been blocked because his IP is full of cats. Appeal pending.
Pythoncoder turned his userpage into a sandbox
- Knowledgekid87 built a sandcastle on their userpage.
User:Panini! made a reference to last year.

Then his contributions turned into a duckroll.

User:EpicPupper made their userpage upside down.
User:PorkchopGMX turned his userpage into an article about his reincarnation of the Pork Chop Gang.
User:JalenFolf decorated his userpage with the lyrics to the song "Living in Paradise" from Not For Broadcast.
- It was later self-reverted and self-tagged for copyright violations.
  - The revision was then deleted by RD1.
As with previous April Fools days, User:Cyberpower678 put a fake new message box on the top of their page to trick users into thinking they have a new message on their talk page, but the links lead to an April Fools message.
User:Pavlov2 direct his userpage to Ivan Pavlov.
User:Padgriffin's userpage was annexed by Canada.
I dare you to edit my userpage.
- It was then edited.
TheScottish43 Claimed he retired permanently for 3 minutes then he put a yellow trolled retired template
Brewster239 rotated his userpage.

Other pranks

Notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. Per consensus on joke vandalism, this section's name is fixed, as some people cannot handle the responsibility. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded again.
- and yet again.
WP:HAT turned into a hat note.
WP:ITALICTITLE was italicised for the first time ever.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2022 broke to the point that some nominations only showed up as blank bullet lists. Even the {{humor}} tags were bereft of text.
This was due to an unclosed <div> tag on the page Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Small.
WP:UNDERLINE was underlined.
Jimbo got replaced with a giant sea creature.
A (slightly dated) spoken version of ANI was released
On Wikipedia:April Fools, the links for this page and the page for the previous year's Fools Day were mysteriously swapped.
The link below that presumably links to "Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2022/Example" was changed to link to a Rick Roll.
And then it was changed to a Duck Roll
And then to a "fake Rick Roll"
And then to a clip of The Loud Librarian.
Then it went back to a rickroll
It was still a rickroll, but then the words are in alphabetical order.
Then it was a Reddit link
Wikipedia:Rules for Fools was put into Dark Mode
then turned upside down
then all the Es [sic] got removed
then it got "fixed up"
sysop didnt like the joke :(
then it got fixed :) and if the mod un flips it its a edit war :)
However, the page remained flipped.
The page was fixed again.

A request for comment was started on the talk page to ban such acts of vandalism on the Wikipedia:Rules for Fools page.

Archive 1 was requested to be undeleted in WP:REFUND.

Joke pages

These will be a subpage of the page you are on right now, such as [1], as they would be deleted as a hoax anywhere else.

South Carolina vs. Penn State Qix semifinal, an infamous college Qix game (turned from a video game into a physical sport).
Generic acid: What do you think movies' unspecified "acid" is made of?
WP:October is updated to celebrate another year of the Halloween article existing
List of famous toasters, an article describing the most famous toasters ever assembled.
Canvas shows what looks like a Canvas course gradebook and a Canvas student's grades page respectively.
{{Cite bathroom graffiti}} was added to the roster of CS1 templates
how_2_make_a_wikypeda_articel, in which a computer illiterate person asks for help on how to make a new article.
White Sox vs. Reds, Top of the 4th, March 31, 2022, a random inning of a spring training game blown into article size.
The Spinning Shrine, a page that houses the spinning shrine.
Pride and Prejudice contains the entire text of Chapter 43-45 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Kung Fu Panda vs. Turning Red, a conflict between DreamWorks Animation and Disney/Pixar.
Blizzard, a high-tech simulation of the state of Michigan.
Reversed calendar shows the calendar for 2022 with the dates written in reverse order.
Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/Blue Sea, Quebec was turned into a MOS:SEAOFBLUE
Literal poisson d'avril.
Shadaze is about the best Sonic the Hedgehog ship ever.

(Serious) articles about silly topics written or improved

See Wikipedia:Unusual articles for inspiration.

Not gonna lie, I might improve space advertising more given the crazy private space race that is now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 01:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh boy, here we go again Lovable98158 01:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

The main page participated again in the April fools. The featured article for this day is Coropuna, documenting a dormant volcano in the Andes. The featured picture shows Hippos from Chobe National Park in Botswana. DYK once again served an assortment of humorous entries. The featured place is Columbia, South Carolina. The random article of the day is Hungry ghost.

Other serious stuff

Due to the vandalism on Wikipedia:Rules for Fools, a request for comment was started on the talk page to ban such acts of vandalism on the Wikipedia:Rules for Fools page on April Fools' Day.
Due to the vandalism on Wikipedia:Rules for Fools and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Planet of the Apes, a request for comment was started on Wikipedia talk:Rules for Fools to ban such acts of vandalism everywhere in Wikipedia namespace on April Fools' Day.
Due to concerns that the joke nominations of trolls and vandals might encourage the trolls and vandals, a request for comment was started on the Wikipedia talk:Rules for Fools to ban joke Wikipedia:Requests for adminship and joke Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship on April Fools' Day after Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bloomfield was nominated for deletion not as a joke.

XFD poll

Click here to vote your favorite XFD nomination. Closes on 4 April 2022 00:00 UTC. You only get to vote once, so choose wisely.

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