Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2017

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Deletion discussions[edit]

Articles for Deletion[edit]

@ ~ H[edit]

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.
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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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.^{[citation needed]}".
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[edit]

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

Categories for discussion[edit]

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

Other nominations[edit]

Move discussions[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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.^{[citation needed]}
- and someone replied with: "Come back when you have 1.2B$."^{[citation needed]}