Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2014

List of events:

Nominations for deletion

Articles

• Justin Bieber was nominated for deletion.
• Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was nominated for deletion.
  • In return, Ohio Department of Transportation was nominated for deletion.
• Lunch has a food pun-filled AfD.
• Auburn University and the University of Alabama are nominated for deletion on the basis that Jimmy Wales must choose one of two football teams.
• Geology is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is obviously fictional.
• Jeopardy! is nominated for deletion on the basis of not being in the form of a question.
• Notability in the English Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for being non-notable.
• Stephen Colbert is nominated for deletion.
• That Mitchell and Webb Look is Wangernumbed
• Windows XP is nominated for deletion.
• Alternative medicine is nominated for deletion as a fringe theory.
• Rickrolling is nominated for deletion for being completely unsourced.
  • And then List of successful rickrolls is seriously nominated.
• Human feces is nominated for deletion as a conflict of interest.
• Vandalism is nominated for deletion for having no vandalism in it to demonstrate notability.
• Twitter is nominated for deletion for being longer than 140 characters.
• Motel 6 is nominated for deletion for failing to leave the light on.
• Madness is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is blasphemy.
• Stand-your-ground law is nominated for deletion.
• Finland is nominated for deletion as imminently redundant to the Russia page.
• Pangaea is nominated for deletion for being no longer notable.
• Alternative rock was nominated for deletion since rock is good enough so no need to alternative.
• Human is AfD'd for WP:COI (for the fourth time now).
• Zoidberg is AfD'd with a not-so-subtle reference to his catchphrase on the internet.
• Drug is PROD'ed[1].
• Lorem ipsum is nominated for deletion.
• Solar System is nominated for deletion.
• New York City is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is too boring.

Project pages

• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion is nominated for the 4th time
  • and its nomination is subsequently nominated.
• Wikipedia:Citation needed is nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Notability is nominated for deletion for not meeting Wikipedia's notability requirements.
• ‪Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 April 1‬ is nominated for deletion…
  • and so is its nomination…
    • and its nomination (twice!)
      • and its nomination...
        • and its nomination!
          • Oh, and its nomination page as well.
• This page is nominated for deletion.
  • ...and of course that nomination is also nominated for deletion.
    • ............. and then that nomination is also nominated for deletion (twice).
• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools is nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions is nominated for deletion for the third time.
  • and the discussion itself is nominated unironically.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is nominated for deletion again.
  • That nomination is seriously nominated for being at AfD rather than MfD.

Special pages

• Special:Listusers is nominated for MFD
• Special:UserLogout is nominated for deletion.

User pages

• User:TenPoundHammer is nominated for deletion as blatant advertising, and then actually deleted (for the second year in a row).
• User:Tokyogirl79 is nominated for deletion over concerns of ownership and hoaxes.

Other nominations

• Willy on Wheels was nominated for adminship again.
• Wikipedia:Featured articles is nominated for FA status.
• The Twelfth Doctor is nominated for extermination.
  • The nominating user is then "blocked" [2] for running an unapproved Dalek.
• Doge has been nominated for FA status. shibe on!
• Wikipedia:Featured lists is nominated for FL status.
• The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are nominated for merging[3] on the grounds that they're too similar and the distinction is artificial.
• Anonymous126, a doppelganger, is nominated for adminship.
• Good (a disambiguation page) is nominated for Good Article status, for clearly being a "Good" article.

General tomfoolery

• All your base are belong to us ON WHEELS! is listed at DRV.
• User:Jimbo Wales is reported for indef blocking.{{deadlocked}}
  • And blocked.
• Your face is listed at DRV.
  • And is then redirected to Your Face, an actual article.
• It is proposed that Requests for Adminship be replaced with a system where users pay for adminship.
• StevenD99 returns from a long wikibreak and replaces all the links on his userpage to a link that will rickroll everybody. This is what happened.
• A hoax notice about Earth being AfD'd (which had been done eight times before and was explicitly asked not to in 2014) was put on this page.
• Windows 2000 was listed on REFUND.
• Wikivoyage listed Wikipedia as the Destination of the Month
• The S.S. Naked Sun from Kill la Kill gets inducted into the MSDF.
• There is no discussion about redirects here
• Upside Down (disambiguation) is turned upside down.[4]
• WP:BOLD is boldly redirected to Star Trek.[5]
• HMS Vanguard (23) lives again.
• WP:VANDAL is redirected to Special:ActiveUsers.[6]
• At 23:59, VVVVVV is flipped upside down.
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• Horse worship is redirected to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom.[8]