Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023

🎈The sacred Keepy Uppy balloon🎈

The sacred neon wombat.

The April Fools Day celebrations of 2023 marked the twentieth year that April Fools Day was celebrated on Wikipedia. Major occurrences of this year's April Fools Day celebrations included posting pictures of The Keepy Uppy Balloon and the Sacred Wombats. Similar to the past few years, joke deletion nominations were incredibly common; 196 joke deletions were logged on this page by 11:59 PM.

From April 2 to 3, Wikipedians participating in the April Fools' Day festivities held an informal vote to select the best Articles for Deletion nomination. The ChatGPT AfD won in a landslide with 14 votes. The full results are below.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

A-F

• Ad hominem was nominated for deletion for breaking WP:NPA but the nominator ended up breaking that policy instead (how ironic).
  • The result was keep; nominator likely violated NPA when talking about that editor.
• What's the point in keeping our article on Adley Rutschman if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season?
  • The result was totally unrelated, woomy.
• Among Us was nominated for deletion for the third consecutive year per WP:SUS.
  • The result was ejected. Among Us was not An Impostor.
• Animutation was nominated for deletion because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims.
• Anime was nominated for deletion because the nominator has never watched anime, and yet apparently knows about Splatoon despite having never played it.
  • The result was Delete. Anime is trash.
• Apollo 11 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
  • The result was Not G3'd
• April Fools’ Day was nominated for deletion for false statements on this page.
  • This conversation has been ongoing since 1804.
  • Notice anything strange with the nomination? (Hint: the first real AfD nomination on that article happened in 2009)
• April 2 was nominated for deletion for being hilarious and original.
  • The result was mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.
• {{April Fools AfD Reasoning|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME|reason={{{2}}}}}
  • {{subst:April Fools AfD Result|{{subst:result|ARTICLENAME|rationale=rationale}}}}
• Artificial intelligence was nominated for deletion per WP:AI and to save humanity.
  • The result was to Create Artificial Unintelligence
• Artificial intelligence art was nominated for deletion for the good of Wikipedia and the society it rules.
  • The result was downgrading artistic AIs to run on Intel Pentium II processor.
• Art gallery was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOTREPOSITORY and WP:GALLERY rules
  • The result was redirect to Wikimedia Commons.
• Ash Ketchum was nominated for deletion so that he can earn his pensions during retirement.
  • The result was to become the very best.
• Australia was nominated for deletion because it doesn't exist.
• Baba Is You. Article Is Delete.
  • Article is Keep.
• Stop. Posting. About Baller!
• Spirit of Eagle threatened to pop all balloons, including the Keep Uppy Balloon.
  • The result was the Keep Uppy Balloon has survived Spirit of Eagle's great assortment of needles and other sharp instruments.
• 𰻝𰻝面 was nominated for deletion for having way too much detail for no reason.
  • The result was keep.
• Bielefeld was nominated for deletion for not existing.
  • The result was Bielefeld no longer exists, demolition will commence on 31 April 2023.
• BFDI was nominated for deletion for being too violent and very much banned.
  • It also coincided with the 12th anniversary of Inanimate Insanity (check the description) unbeknownst to the nominator.
  • The result was Peppered, since it's already salted.

• Black and white was nominated for deletion in favor of cycling colors.
  • The result was redirect to Color.
• Bloon was nominated for deletion in order for the monkeys to pop the KU Balloons... interesting how logical the nominator's reasoning is.
  • The result was keep.
• Bluey (2018 TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:BLUE, creating confusion with another famous blue dog, and being the originator of the Keepy Uppy balloon.
  • The result was move to Blue's Clues while riding the Blue Line in Chicago.
• Last year's AfD nomination for Bobby Witt Jr. has been reopened because it had only ran for merely two hour and nineteen minutes last year. Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!
  • This nom should've been relisted by now.
    • Notice the use of {{countdown-ymd}}, it will definitely be reopened next year.
• Bocchi the Rock! was nominated for deletion in favor of isolationism.
  • The result was redirect to Dwayne Johnson.
• Boeing Starliner was nominated for deletion per the SpaceX Dragon 2.
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Bones (Imagine Dragons song) was nominated for deletion to question its entertainment factor.
  • The result was keep.
• Brazil was nominated for deletion for being too scary to visit like Ohio.
  • It was Sent to Argentina instead.
• Bumble was nominated for deletion per WP:G11.
  • The result was Buzz Buzz. April fools is over
• C was nominated for deletion for being able to be replaced by other letters
  • The result was Move to B♯.
• Cardcaptor Sakura was given a deletion notice as a birthday gift!
  • The result was Delete per nom.
• Castling was nominated by a motion.
  • The result was Google Siberian Swipe instead.
• Chainsaw Man was nominated for deletion because Bocchi the Rock! is better.
  • The result was redirect to some bear.
• Care was nominated for deletion.
  • The result's no care.
• ChatGPT nominated itself for deletion.
  • The result was delete. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion regarding the proposed deletion of this Wikipedia article. After careful consideration and evaluation of the arguments presented, a decision has been reached. Unfortunately, we have determined that the article does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines and will therefore be deleted. Thank you for your understanding and continued support of Wikipedia's mission to provide accurate and reliable information to the public.
• 漢字 (漢字(かんじ), 漢字(한자), 漢字(hànzì)) was nominated for deletion for being too difficult to write
  • Chinese characters (displayed as Simplified Chinese characters, 汉字) was nominated for deletion six minutes later
  • Ironically, Chinese characters (Simplified display) was closed first and the result was Redirect to Duolingo. So that everyone can learn 中文.
  • The Traditional display of 漢字 was later closed and the result was 削除. 漢字は難しい...
    • From Japanese to English: Delete. Kanji (or hanzi or hanja) is difficult.
  • The nomination has a Korean (hanja) humor header, Japanese (kanji) close, and Chinese comments. In addition, everything is written vertically similar to actual Chinese text.
• 2023 Chicago mayoral election was nominated for deletion for having two equally no-good runoff candidates.
  • The result was Brandon Johnson won the election.
• ^{[Citation needed] was nominated for deletion.}
  • The result was Citation found.
• Someone got mad at Combinatorial game theory because they moved second in a game with value $*$.
  • The result was BUT HEY! THAT'S JUST A THEORY, A GAME THEORY!
• Comment got commented out. Go to edit source to read what it says.
  • The result was Commented out.
    • Again, go to edit source to find out.
• 🦀 Crab 🦀 Rave 🦀 is 🦀 gone! 🦀
  • 🦀Speedy Gone🦀
• Craig was nominated for deletion by Greg.
  • The result was redirect to Greg per nom.
• Cursor (user interface) was nominated for deletion for being so pointy that it can't even render
  • The result was keep.
• CSS nominated itself for deletion by applying display: none; to <body>.
  • The result was keep.
• David was nominated for deletion because it is biblically accurate that he said "aw seriously" (rip headphone users)
  • The result was Aw, Seriously!
• Daylight saving time was nominated for deletion because it is a waste. Also, the nominator and everyone else subject to DST feel jet lagged.
  • The result was Rollback to standard time.
• Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? was nominated for deletion as the user didn't find him sexy.
  • The result was Yes. He is sexy.
• Defamation was nominated for deletion per WP:G10
  • The result was withdrawn
• Depths of Wikipedia was out of the depths for a while now and was nominated for deletion for being inaccurate.
  • The result was to go back to the depths.
• Detroit was nominated for deletion for being in Michigan.
  • The result was merge to Ohio. April fools day is over
• Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion for being caught cheating.
  • In reference to the recent Minecraft April Fools' snapshot, it was closed by running /vote rule minecraft:dream_mode repeal.
• Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez were nominated for deletion for being the same person.
  • The results were to move them to each others' nomination page
• Duolingo was nominated for deletion for aiding and abetting a systematic oppression and harassment of users who missed a streak on any language courses. Call Menchetti and Sons to learn more.
  • El resultado fue una solución intermedia.
• Dysarthria wash nominayted for deleeshion.
  • The reeesult wasss, lemme shee here... I guess it can shhtay.
• E3 was unfortunately cancelled (cancelled?)...
  • The result was Cancelled.
• Easter Island was 🗿'd per 🗿.
  • The result was 🗿. 🗿
• Earth was nominated for deletion for the 18th time. One day it will be successful.
  • The result was keep as it is mostly harmless.
• Encyclopædia Britannica was nominated for deletion to keep Wikipedia superior.
  • The result was speedy keep to comply with United States antitrust laws.
• En passant was nominated for deletion as an obvious WP:HOAX.
  • Holy Hell.
• Engage Kiss flopped.
  • The result was redirect to Love Live.
• Esperanto estis proponita por forigo ĉar ĝi ne estas bona lingvo.
  • La rezulto estis lernu Tokipono anstataŭe
• Facebook was nominated for deletion for disinformation.
  • The result was found false by independent fact-checkers per nom.
• Fandom was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTFANDOM.
  • The result was speedy keep to comply with United States antitrust laws. Also, unnotable topics usually go there.
• Field of Corn was nominated for deletion because for the fact that we can't eat concrete corn, and it's yucky.
  • The result was Redirect to Field of Maize.
• Filli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy cry twice in this episode.
  • The result was who is Fluttersky?
• Final Space was nominated for deletion for tax write-off purposes.
  • The result was merge to Mooninite, ain't no doubt.
• Fishes were nominated for deletion because they are POISONOUS to eat!
  • The result was Slap the nominator with a trout.
• Forgery was nominated for deletion for forging User:Melecie's signature ( melecie  talk) and could be committing a crime.
  • Melecie (the original one) closed it with Four Spider-lecies pointing at each other.
• 2023 Formula One World Championship was nominated for deletion, knowing that a company that gives you wings will win.
  • The result was an even redder bull.
• Fox was nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior wolves.
  • The result was delete Fox News.
• FTX is nominated for deletion for being responsible for crashing the crypto market in November 2022
  • The result was will the real SBF please stand up.

G-M

• Genshin Impact was nominated for deletion for wasting people's money over some items.
  • The result was redirect to Benshin Piro.
• Give You Up was nominated for deletion because it's never gonna happen.
  • The result was Gonna be given up.
• Stupid Goddess of Victory: Nikke game made me poor
  • The result was Redirect to Nike.
• Good faith was nominated for deletion per WP:ABF.
  • The result was speedy block.
• Google and its failed cloud gaming service were nominated for deletion.
  • The result [for Google] was redirect to DuckDuckGo.
  • The result [for Google Stadia] was discontinued.
• Grass was nominated for deletion because it is my God-given right to not touch this "grass."
  • The result was Grass touched.
• Green was nominated for deletion by a talking sketchbook.
  • The result was Never be creative again.
• Harambe was deemed a dead meme.
  • The result was Memes never die. Except for every single mene past 2018, most of which are pretty much dead on arrival.
• Hatsune Miku was nominated for deletion for being too overused.
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Homeopathy was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• You have one hour to respond to this nomination, starting at 23:00 UTC.
  • The result was You're too late!
• HTML is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
  • The result was April Fools' is over.
  • A processed version was made after nomination closure: index.html (replicated via an HTML editor)
• Hyperlink was nominated for deletion for being invasive as heck.
  • The result was Redirect to Red Sea.
• Ice cream was nominated for deletion for illegally transmitting the unthinkable to the world.
  • The result was Redirect to Fast and Furious 9, which is better anyway.
• IDLE's nomination for deletion was imported.
  • The result was redirect to Visual Studio Code.
• Imposter was nominated for deletion due to WP:SUS.
  • The result was Eject per WP:SUS.
• Inflation was nominated for deletion for skyscraper-high prices.
  • The result was keep.
• Internet Explorer was nominated for obsolescence.
  • The result was Upgrade to Microsoft Edge.
• The Interstate Highway System, especially all primary Interstate highways, is nominated for deletion for destroying Wikipedians' neighborhood and being as overrated, overengineered, and overbuilt as heck.
  • The result [above] was Convert to trains.
  • Interstate 45 was nominated for deletion in particular because of these house-destroying maniacs trying to widen a freeway in Houston.
    • The result was calmed per CityUrbanism.
• The Illuminati was nominated for deletion for (Redacted) and WP:POINTY.
  • The result was (Redacted).
•  Invisibility 
  was
   nominated for deletion a second time 
  because the nominator had the same idea as the first person.
  • The result was
    visible.
  • Does not work on Wikipedia's smartphone app because of Wikipedia:Dark mode.
• Invisibility is nominated for deletion per MOS:TEXT
  • Unlike the other one, this one does work on Wikipedia:Dark mode.
• IP address is nominated for deIetion per m:IP masking.
  • The result was Redirect to intellectual property office.
• It (pronoun) was nominated for deletion for clowning IT
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Italic type was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
  • The result was keep.
• Jane Byrne Interchange was nominated for deletion for failing to solve congestion, plus the fact that Illinois is becoming Texas (that's disgusting).
  • The result was Spaghettify interchange.
• JavaScript nominated itself for deletion through just two lines of code to clear everything inside the <body> tag
  • The result was [object Object].
• Joe is nominated for deletion for _________.
  • The result was redirect to Joe Biden.
• Kanye West was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was got cancelled, like this nomination.
    • This was in reference to the fact that the nom got MfD'd.
      • And the nom disappeared from existence.
• Kerning and Keming were nominated for nominated for deletion (rn and m) for social distancing in 2023 and overcrowding respectively.
  • The result was redirect to Corning and Coming, respectively.
• King was nominated for deletion as part of an ongoing revolution
  • The result was redirect to Guillotine per Robespierre.
• Lake Shore Drive was nominated for deletion for being a barrier on Chicago's lakefront; this is merely an expressway on the lakefront without trucks (mostly).
  • The result was redirect to LSD.
• LazarBeam got yeeted by some Wikipedian.
  • The result was yeet.
• Legal threat was nominated for deletion per WP:NOLEGALTHREATS
  • The result was April fools day is over
• L'Hôpital's rule was nominated for deletion per calculus
  • The result was rediriger vos La Regle de L'Hospital.
• Like this one was nominated for deletion like this one.
  • The result was like this one.
• Limon, Colorado was nominated for deletion for "LIMON!!!"
  • The result was move to Lime, Colorado.
• Line height was nominated for deletion for being unnecessary.
  • The result was keep.
• List of -gate scandals and controversies was nominated for deletion for being just as controversial as shutting down a freeway bridge.
  • The result was Deletiongate.
• LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!
  • The result was LOL.
• 99 Luftballons was nominated for deletion under orders from the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union to shoot down 99 Keepy Uppy Balloons.
  • The result was delete.
• Lycoris Recoil was nominated for deletion for [obscure anime-based reasoning].
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Marisa was nominated for deletion for theft and possible trespassing.
  • The result was keep.
• Matthew Guy was nominated for deletion because he tried to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
  • The result was replaced Matthew Guy with Andy Byford.
• Stop doing Mathematics
  • Mathematics was nominated for deletion again because math sucks.
  • Both results were Played for absolute fools.
• Mayor of New York was nominated because I run New York!
  • The result was redirect to Rats.
• Mercury and Venus are nominated for deletion as they are both unlikely habitable for human now and in the future.
  • The result was Destroyed by the death star.
• Michael Chavis was nominated for deletion because the nominator was reminded of a short-haired Chavis over at Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023
  • The result was totally unrelated, veemo.
• You have one minute to respond to this nomination after 23:59 UTC, at this point it would be too late to respond.
  • The result was You're too late!
• Monday was nominated for deletion per WP:IJDLI.
  • The result was keep as it's not Monday.

N-S

• Nature was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Delete and go to Outer space.
• Nazi was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
  • The result was keep.
• Nestlé was nominated for deletion because they're WP:EVIL.
  • The result was delete per Nestlé Crunch ad.
• New Glenn was nominated for deletion per WP:CRYSTAL
  • The result was redirect to Glenn Seaborg.
• Next Gen (NASCAR) was nominated for deletion because THESE CARS ARE KILLING PEOPLE!!!
  • The result was wall ride it.
• Never Gonna Give You Up was disallowed by an edit filter.
  • The result was Oversight, and redirect article to The Game (mind game) instead.
• Nike was nominated for deletion since it just can't do it.
  • The result was Just Do It.
• Note was nominated for deletion on grounds of failing WP:N.
  • The result was noted, a redirect to a text editor is considered.
• Nupedia was nominated for deletion for being a free encyclopedia that no one can edit.
  • The result was merge to Wikipedia.
• Ohio was nominated for deletion for... I have actually never been there, so I am going to bring up eyewitnesses to know what is happening in Ohio.
  • The result was It doesn't exist in the first place.
• Old English was nominated for deletion on the basis that the language is simply an elaborate prank.
  • The result was transform to Middle English.
• One Minute was nominated for deletion because one minute is not enough time.
  • The discussion was only open for one minute, and the result was Time's up
• OpenAI was nominated for deletion for not being open.
  • The result was Train GPT-4 to open-source itself.
• Papyrus was nominated for deletion for not being a very great font
  • The result was merge to Comic Sans.
    • (get it?)
• Patrick's Parabox was nominated for deletion with an AfD that contains itself. Fortunately it only goes one layer deep.
  • The result was paraboxical.
• Patrick Star was nominated for deletion for being WP:POINTy.
  • The result was redirect to Starfish.
• In light of a penguin invasion, they were nominated for deletion for committing war crimes and violating the Geneva Convention.
  • The result was keep.
• Pepsi was nominated for deletion by getting involved in the Cola wars.
  • The result Isded.
• Pessimism was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was delete with optimism (i.e. be bold).
• Physical chemistry was nominated for deletion for the same reason as math.
  • The result was keep.
• Physics was nominated for deletion with a tilted look.
  • The result was reinvented.
• r/place was to be whited out.

• It was whited out and archived like r/place was, out of schedule.

• Plagiarism was nominated for deletion per WP:PLAGIARISM and WP:COPYVIO. Wow, people were way ahead of this nomination. Wait a minute.
  • The result was expelled for academic dishonesty.
• Point of view is nominated for deletion for clearly violating NPOV policy.
  • The result was delete per WP:NPOV.
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are nominated for deletion for ḃḕḯɦĝ а̄ Бчḡḡλ ΜεṤṤ
  • The closer went surfing off the shore of Cascarrafa, Paldea, waiting for a MissingNo.
• Power was nominated for deletion per Bang.
  • The result was keep.
• Procrastination will be nominated for deletion eventually.
  • Maybe a little overdue?
    • In 2024, someone had enough and went through with the nomination.
• Prose was nominated for deletion with an extremely short poem about how poetry is superior.
  • The result was keep. Actually, move lists and poems to prose instead.
• Q was nominated for deletion for being useless.
  • The result was uickly uestioned.
• Reason was nominated for deletion for no reason.
  • The result was:
• Rotation was nominatedfordeletion.
  • The result was Rotated around.
• Rules were nominated for deletion per Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.
  • The result was more rules.
  • WP:Rules was also nominated for deletion, but triggered an WP:IAR paradox for nominating a project page in AfD instead of MfD.
    • The result was keep per WP:IAR.
• Russian cruiser Moskva was nominated for explosion
  • The result was keep.
• Santa Claus was nominated for deletion for breaking WP:HOAX. Wait, what was the other reason for deletion?
  • The result was Killed by Danny Gonzalez.
• You have one second to respond to this nomination after 23:59:59 UTC, at this point it would be too late to respond.
  • The result was You're too late!
• See You Next Wednesday was nominated for deletion
  • The result was See you next monday!.
• Semicolon was nominated for deletion because Python is better.
  • The result was ;.
• September, October, November and December are nominated for deletion as they are misleading.
  • The result was Renamed per User:Melecie. Happy Quacember Fools!
    • Look at the second to last response in the nomination.
• Shipping (fandom) was nominated for deletion to prevent flame wars.
  • The result was speedy keep because the nominator did not want to close this with another poem.
• Silence was nominated for deletion such that if anyone talks, the AfD will close.
  • The result was Uh oh, someone broke the silence (AfD nom) :\
• SMG4 was nominated for deletion for non-notable sensory overload (i.e. Internet memes)...
  • The result was Copyright Striked by Nintendo.
• Social media was nominated for deletion for violation of WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK no matter how addictive it gets.
  • The result was speedy keep. It says social network, not social media.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (character) was nominated for deletion because he is dead. The AFD held a funeral for him.
  • May Sonic rest in peace.
• South Korea was nominated for deletion because they invented K-pop and eat penis fish
  • The result was Merge to Best Korea.
• Soviet Union was nominated for deletion for trying to block Wikipedia when Wikipedia blocks trolls like Stalin.
  • The result was Dissolve. April fools is over.
• Space(Punctuation)WasNominatedForDeletion.
  • TheResultWasNoConsensus.
• Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so AfD'd so that nobody would expect it.
  • The result was Redirect to Djikstra's algorithm. Did you expect this?
• Spherical Earth was nominated for deletion because the world is flat and there are turtles all the way down.
  • The result was Delete per Flat Earth Society.
• The nominator attempted to delete the Splatoon series and the Cryptid Splatfest because of unwanted vandalism and turf wars in Chicago.
  • "Circle settings" allow users to show or hide ink circles (hidden by default) made by random inklings and octolings. These settings are located on the top right corner of the page (the nom and part 2 of the AfD log). However, because {{top text}} is not available for mobile and other Minerva users, the "circle settings" are also located below the "Splatꙩꙩn" header.
  • Keep is winning the Splatfest.
  • Months after the closure of the nomination, the Chicago Transit Authority actually closed a portion of the Blue Line from the Illinois Medical District station to LaSalle station. However, this was merely for a months-long track rebuild, rather than some very unusual accident.
• Stadium 974 was nominated to be dismantled.
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Steins;Gate was nominated for deletion for believing that potatoes fly
  • The result was April Fools Day is over
• Stroad is nominated for deletion for being dangerous and only served to get cars to travel at 69.2 kilometres per hour (43.0 mph).
  • The result was pedestrianized. It's Not Just Bikes that have trouble here, but trains and buses as well.
• Strikethrough was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
  • The result was April Fools day is over

T-Z

• Tetris and Tetris (film) were nominated for deletion due to low confidence of the nominator, especially given the fact that Super Mario Bros. (film) is an utter failure.
  • The result was Tetris.
• Texas Motor Speedway was nominated for deletion due to poor racing quality and due to the nominator getting covid there.
  • The result was slow down.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie was nominated for deletion because the nominator wanted the Sonic movies to be superior.
  • The result was Merge to Super Mario Bros. (film).
• The Whale (2022 film) was nominated for deletion as per the nominator's objection.
  • The result was Jimmy Wales is now film director.
• TikTok was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was rename to musical.ly.
• Timeline of the far future was nominated for deletion for WP:BALL.
  • The result was delete per WP:TOOSOON.
• To the Moon was nominated for deletion for being cryptocurrency propaganda.
  • The result was everything's alright.
• Traffic congestion was nominated for deletion for being too hard to alleviate because of induced demand.
  • The result was Keep and expand. One more lane, bro. One more lane is gonna fix this, just watch!
• Traffic light was nominated for deletion for accessibility reasons (particularly color). Go to Tipperary Hill in Syracuse and you will soon find out why.
  • The result was Replace with Stop sign.
• Trench coat was nominated for division.
  • The result was Two Splits in a Trenchcoat.
• Trout was whacked with a WP:TROUT.
  • The result was Trout the article per WP:TROUT.
• Two Trucks was nominated for deletion for havi-
  • The result wa-
• Underline was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
  • The result was April Fools day is over.
• United Launch Alliance was nominated for deletion for being obsolete.
  • The result was April Fools day is over.
• The United States of America was nominated for deletion for not living up to being the land of the free per too many unnecessary regulations and bureaucracies.
  • The result was April Fools day is over
• Vector 2022 was nominated for deletion because Vector 2010 is better.
  • The result was Convert to Matrix. April fools' is over.
• Vertical writing was nominated for deletion because I am disoriented. This is out of balance.
  • The result was April Fools day is over.
• The Waffle House searched for its new host.
  • The Waffle House has found its new host
• WAAAAARRRRRIIIIOOOOO was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Waluigi is better.
• Weasel was nominated for deletion per MOS:WEASEL.
  • The result was Upgrade to Otter.
• Weather balloon was nominated for deletion for being suspicious.
  • The result was shot down
• Wikilink is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
  • The result was April Fools Day is over.
• Windows 8.1 was nominated for deletion per suffering the same fate as Windows 7.
  • The result was Upgrade to Windows 10.
• Whopper was nominated for deletion for being closer to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than Burger King.
  • The nom was temporarily "lock-closed" for copyrighted lyrics, meaning only an administrator could edit and officially close the nom until it was unprotected after April Fools' ended.
    • The result was give one to Bobby Witt Jr.
• Wittenoom, Western Australia was nominated for deletion for being contaminated with asbestos.
  • The result was Cleanup the crocidolite.
• Wolf was also nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior foxes.
  • To parallel the closure of Fox, the result was to Keep Wolf News.
• Wombat was nominated for deletion in the spirit of Wikipedia's main 2023 April Fools' joke.
  • The result was Hit a wom with a bat (actually, I don't want to see that bat hitting that wombat; rhyme experts anyone?).
• World Baseball Classic was nominated for deletion because people got hurt.
  • The result was merge with spring training, delete both.
• Yellow Face was nominated for deletion for racist ads...
  • The result was Move to Purple Face.
• YouTube Shorts was nominated for deletion for being a copy of TikTok.
  • The result was Delete as speedy as these videos' pace.

Categories for discussion

• Category:Wikipedia policies was nominated per WP:IAR
  • The result of the discussion was: keep per WP:IAR.

Files for discussion

• index.php was nominated for deletion because a complete index of Wikipedia would be too big.
• robots.txt was nominated for deletion for discrimination against robots.
• 503.html was nominated for deletion for being old and redundant.

The result of the three discussions above were all: delete all per antiquated cru-

Miscellany for deletion

• Special:ProtectPage was nominated for deletion per WP:OWN.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was nominated for deletion because it had way too many problems in NotOrrio's eyes
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Vector 2022 was nominated for deletion because everyone doesn't like it.
  • The result of the discussion was: Snow delete and make the default skin Skin:Nostalgia.
• Special:Logout was nominated for deletion per WP:HOLIC.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Recursion is trying to delete itself.
  • The result of the discussion was: no consensus.
• All Earth AfDs (apart from the first) were nominated for deletion for being unfunny, as stated in its first AfD.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• ANI was nominated for deletion because it serves no other purpose but to create drama.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:Be bold was nominated for deletion for being a bad example of being bold.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion, oh wait it's actually impossible to tell.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (19th nomination) was nominated for deletion due to recursion.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library was nominated for deletion via a sting operation for containing predators
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over
• User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for deletion because the Wikipedia article says User:Jimbo founded Wikipedia.
  • The result of the discussion was: April Fools Day is over

Redirects for discussion

• Google is your friend was nominated for deletion since when?
  • The result was OK Google, may I order an Alexa instead?
• TNT poisoning and related pages exploded.
  • The result was BOOM! April fools day is over.
• Blank Space (song) was nominated for deletion because no one knows who sang it.
  • The result was blanked.
• Cyanide gas was nominated for deletion because the nominator forgot what it is.
  • The result was cleared by the EPA.
• Recur was nominated for retargeting to Recur per WP:RECURSION.
  • The result was while (true) { console.log('Delete') }

Templates for discussion

• {{citation needed}} was nominated because: .
  • It was closed shortly after because it was taken as "disruptive".

Users for deletion

• User:ARandomPage was nominated for deletion to prevent them from deleting Wikipedia's Main Page.
• User:Awesome Aasim was nominated for deletion for undisclosed reasons.
• User:AmandaNP was nominated for deletion for creating the date "April 1".
• User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for explosion.
• User:Melecie failed the Pokémon Test and was to be deleted.
• User:PrincessPandaWiki was nominated for deletion for WP:MONARCH.
• User:Xingqiu Viator was nominated for deletion to test his Guhua abilities (and his Hydro Vision).

Deletion review

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Witt Jr. was subject to a deletion review because Witt failed to cut his hair in the year between the AfD and today.

• The discussion has been speedily closed due to time constraint surrounding April Fools.

Creation nominations

Articles for creation

• That Thing by That Place was nominated for creation for being notable.
  • The result was internet exposure.
• Blue link example was nominated for creation as a counterpart to Red link example.
• Siuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu was nominated for creation for being part of a notable CR7 celebration.

Other requests

Requests for adminship

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Belford railway station, New South Wales
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gerbilling

Requested moves

• Is → Was, to avoid inevitable edit wars over changing "is" to "was"
• The moment Walter White → Werner Heisenberg
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/Patrick Kane: We don't need Connor Bedard anymore; we need Patrick Kane!
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/All pages: Willy on Wheels tries a different approach.
• Make ANI the new Main Page!

Featured picture candidates

• File:Commons-eligible fan art of Babylon Rogues generated by Bing Image Creator.jpg was nominated for featured picture. It all started with Jet the Hawk's ego...

In the News nominations

• A Recent Death nomination was made for Sonic the Hedgehog per The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Requests for comment

• A request was made for images of living things to be sized respective to the subject's fatness.
• A request was made to improve the legibility of Legibility.

Project proposals

• Wikipedia:Department of Fun (pre-2004) looks at each April Fools' page before 2004
• Articles for deletion for deletion, where articles for deletion nominations may be proposed for deletion.

Requests for pronunciation transcription

• Requested an IPA transcription for Spiders Georg, a purely text-based Internet meme for which a canonical pronunciation is neither extant nor relevant

User page pranks

• User:Melecie has officially had their life ruined by TV Tropes.

• It was archived here.

• The furry Whisper the Wolf symbol got replaced with a page-large storm of Silver the Hedgehog doodles on User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki.
• Last month, User:Azeem1Hadzrie announced an edit war on it's userpage. By the last hour of March, it was cancelled to prevent a 3rd April Fools' Day Edit War from happening.
• Wesoree rotated his userpage upside down and changed the font to Comic Sans MS.
• Catfurball had their userpage rotated along with Wesoree leaving a mark.
• Misc Practice rotated his userpage 135 degrees.
• Lovable98158's about section was
  skewed
  • The spinning texts were "AMOGUS ඞ".
    • It only lasted for 10 minutes
• Planetberaure rotated his userpage 270 degrees because he was laying down for a nap.
• The talk page of User:Azeem1Hadzrie has turned upside down.
  • It was returned to normal after the end of April Fool's Day.
• NotOrrio's changed the content on his user page so it stares that it's being rebuilt as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project
• Billionnine's page is now nonsense that is meme.

• Was turned upside down.

• Then he reverted it.

• Blaze Wolf had his userpage fox-ified
• Are you sure you did not flip Aasim's talk page?
• Cyberpower678's talk page decided to do a barrel roll.
• Disoneiscool8745's userpage has been turned blue (da bu dee da bu da)
  • The user's spinning text has been slowered 6000 times.
    • Then it got reverted.
• Taking Out The Trash generated some trash for them to take out.
• Jimbo's user page and talk page are goofed up again.
  • A big spinning "April Fools!" was added.
• Fatal error in 3PPYB6.exe: semicolon expected in line 18,229 (of 67,558 lines).
• User:Shadow of the Starlit Sky's userpage now redirects to Never Gonna Give You Up.
• User:TILRs posted so many wombats on this page, so their userpage was smashed by the almighty whale as a result.
• User:多多123 was rotated 100 degrees [1].
• The Guhua geek made his user page spin at about 2,400 revolutions per minute.
  • However had a vertigo on his own so the spin was gone.
• Illusion Flame’s user page caught on fire!! Bring some 🧯.
• User:AlphaBeta135 cannot be touched as an avid April Fools AfD nominator!
• User:Charmquark314 rickrolls editors trying to create new sections on her talk page.

• User:TenPoundHammer redirected his talk page to Rickrolling
• User:Spirit of Eagle respected the capybara. Will you respect the capybara?
• Helen replaced her user page with a wooden horse. She is definitely not attempting to invade Troy.

Other pranks

• Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded yet again!
  • WP:BOLD was bolded again.
    • And then spun out into Wikipedia:Be bolded.
• Jimbo was blocked for (up to) one whole minute. No gods, no masters!
• Jimbo was reported as a vandalism-only account.
• The sandbox was filled with sand.
  • It lasted less than a minute.
    • It then became an actual sandbox.
• Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates was tilted just enough to be annoying. Also Wikipedia:Village pump.
• Some maintenance tags were added to Wikipedia:Tag bombing
• The section's text mentions the 3rd Great Edit War.
  • Later, the section's text font was changed to a fancy style.
    • It returned to normal, but it's upside down.
      • Then the upside-down effect disappeared.
        • The text was changed to "Other tomfoolery", then it was reverted later.
• WP:Humor, the talk page, and User:Operator873 were redirected to Never Gonna Give You Up with mysterious edit summaries
  • However, the user page's rickroll virus was reverted
• Template:Whale was changed to reference Wales instead (permalink).
• All Wikipedians have a conflict of interest with themselves and the project they edit.

The Sacred Keepy Uppy Balloon and The Sacred Wombats

Splatfest
Part of Wikipedia April Fools' Day 2023
Date	1 April 2023
Location	Wikipedia
Caused by	Wikipedia tradition of bad jokes and other deleted nonsense on April Fools' Day
Goals	To cause shenanigans in the Other pranks section of the April Fools' Day 2023 main page.
Status	Stalemate, April Fools ended before a winner could be decided
Parties
The Keepy Uppy Balloon Sacred Wombats
Lead figures
Non-centralized leadership Non-centralized leadership
Number
Dozens At least 10
Casualties and losses
At least 9 balloons popped None
"Splatfest" is named after the real Splatfest (archive) in Splatoon 3. The real Splatfest happened to coincide with "Splatfest" during April Fools'.

Today's splatfest is Nessie vs. Aliens vs. Bigfoot
Keepy Uppy Balloon vs. The Sacred Wombats!

• 
  Thou shalt not pop the sacred Keepy Uppy Balloon.
• 
  Wikipedia is ruled by The Sacred Wombats.

• An keepy-uppy balloon was added to the Joke pages section.
  • It was then gone.
    • Later, it was upgraded.
      • And then it was deleted again.
        • And it was returned, but upgraded again.
          • It was downgraded.
            • It was exploded.
              • It was turned into a icosahedron.
                • Remember people, no edit wars
                  • The Keepy Uppy balloon had help with its return.

• The Keepy Uppy balloon served well and was moved to its permanent home.
  • Then the wombat was revived, then died.
    • A tribute to the Keepy Uppy Balloon was put at the bottom of this page.
      • The tribute was deleted
        • After the roadkill was cleared, the tribute respawned again, and was deleted again.
          • The Keepy Uppy balloon was revived :P using {{Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Keepy Uppy Balloon bottom right corner}}.
            • The Keepy Uppy balloon decided to have a hot new gradient.
              • Yes, even in the bottom right corner.
                • Then it was decided for the wombats and the Keepy Uppy Balloon to have a rap battle. At the last second though, the Keepy Uppy Balloon was popped yet again and an angry ape came in its place.
                  • The sacred wombats became the scared wombats and ran away soon afterward, meaning the ape has won the rap battle.

• Then the mini Keepy Uppy Balloon started flying away.
  • It was then popped, but was quickly restored.
    • The Mini Keepy Uppy Balloon was brought back to Earth!
      • Only to start flying away again... taking the Wombat with it.
        • The Keepy Uppy Balloon was destroyed by the sus penguin twice, but revived.
          • Supporters of the Keepy Uppy Balloon began offering gifts of beans and macaroni to the sus penguin(s) in exchange for them not popping the balloon.
            • The sus penguins were gifted 1782 Glocks, and later left the Keepy Uppy Balloon alone.
              • The balloon was tethered down, only to fly away again...
                • And then land back where it started, flying in near the top of the page. I wonder how big the Wikipedia room is...
                  • Then a dancing clown offered to guard the balloon.

• The sus penguins with the nuke and knife were defeated. The balloon has returned.
  • The hot gradient balloon returned.
    • The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon returned again.
      • The Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon now has a younger brother, the hot gradient balloon.
        • The Sacred Keepy Uppy Family was retconned and the hot gradient balloon was redefined as the Sacred Keepy Uppy balloon’s sacred son, Sacred Keepy Uppy Jr.
          • Spirit of Eagle threatened to pop all balloons, including the Keep Uppy Balloon.
            • Both the wombats and the keepy-uppy balloons were Conquered by the Supreme Cabal Regime of the English Wikipedia

Joke pages

KUB vs SW

• The Keepy Uppy Balloon, a special place for the keepy uppy balloon.
  • At one point, some sacred wombats decided to add more balloons, they were all exterminated.
    • Someone tried to pop the balloon, but the balloon was not popped.
• Sacred Wombats' Temple
• Why the Communist Parties are willing to shoot down any balloons: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Memorandum on the 99 Keepy Uppy Balloons
• Splatfest but different...

Others

• Wikipedia:2023 Wikipedia Razzies
• Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023, an inning of a baseball game played during the 2022 MLB season.
• Fenway Park naming dispute, an effort by baseball fans to push back against corporate renaming of stadiums.
• Mobile Offshore Abortion Clinic, an experiment of what localities offshore outside state boundaries is like
• Trumpet (Video Game), a game that follows the titular character Barrington Trumpet through his journey for inner peace.
• I'm Blue, a page with a spinning text that says "I'm Blue".
  • We're Spinning Rainbows, a modified page with two spinning texts that say "I'm a Spinning Rainbow".
• Help:Buying Wikipedia! Now with a hint of lore!
• funny-colored circle is provided as a reference to the Splatoon series.
• A recreation of Wikipedia's "REDmessage" is released
• Chemists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Periodic Table of Wikipedia, all 118 of them!
• Linguists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Wikipedia Alphabet, all 26 letters of the English alphabet!
• Roadgeeks! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices!
• From Template:Whale: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Wales
• Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, the sad truth about a man only known because of Shohei Ohtani.
• Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/No Deadline based on "Revolution 9"
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Procrastination will be filled in later.
• Shortest description of Wikipedia ever!
  • Could be made shorter by using the zero copula in African American Vernacular English.
• Wikipedia:Be bolded transcludes Wikipedia:Be bold but bolds all the text.
• WP:October is updated to celebrate another year of the Halloween article existing
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Honorarium references an element that must change hands voluntarily.
• Vespa Carriola about a Vespa motorised whellbarrow, was created as a draft and moved to article space for about three whole days.

April Fools' Day throughout the years

Past

Main page: Wikipedia:Department of Fun (pre-2004)

• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1517 (506 years ago)
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1804 (219 years ago)
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1918 (105 years ago)
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1929 (94 years ago)
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1987 (36 years ago)

Future

• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2103 (in 80 years)
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2122 (in 99 years)

Other serious stuff

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whopper was tagged with {{copyvio-revdel}} because the quoted song lyrics from "Harder Better Faster Whopper" likely violated copyright policies.
  • The nomination was tagged the second time because someone put the lyrics of "Chicken Chicken," resulting in the AfD being fully protected until 2 April.
• Someone got blocked for pranking Oshwah's user page.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ty Gibbs was speedy deleted as a BLP violation.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024 was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOSOON
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanye West (2nd nomination) was nominated for deletion due to it breaking WP:BLP. It later was deleted under WP:G10.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump (3rd nomination) was speedy deleted because it was "just a bad idea" (G6).
• A question on the Science reference desk was asked and answered "What would be the abbreviation for the systematic name of a hypothetical element of atomic number 717?" – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 10:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
  • "The IUPAC recommendation shows that 717 = SeptUnSeptium [capitals added for clarity] and hence Sus. Not likely to have a real-world utility any time soon. . Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:39, 1 April 2023 (UTC)"
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kyrie Irving was nominated for deletion for breaking WP:BLP. It was deleted on April 9.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bielefeld (2nd nomination) was speedy deleted as WP:G3 after nominator was blocked as sock puppet, then it was restored after being listed on DRV.
• The April Fools' Day 2023 wombat and balloon user page icons were deleted under WP:G5.

XfD vote

Graph of this year's vote (15 nominees shown)

This year, there were 51 votes. And the winner of AFD '23, with a landslide victory of 14 votes: ChatGPT.

• 1st place: ChatGPT
• 2nd place: Among Us and IDLE
• 3rd place: Art gallery, ARTICLENAME, Bielefeld, Ohio, Splatoon, and TikTok

Article	#Votes
ChatGPT	14
Among Us	3
IDLE	3
Art gallery	2
ARTICLENAME	2
Bielefeld	2
Ohio	2
Splatoon	2
TikTok	2
April 2	1
Animutation	1
April Fools’ Day	1
Artificial intelligence	1
Baba Is You	1
BFDI	1
Biangbiang noodles	1
Black and white	1
Bluey (2018 TV series)	1
Bobby Witt Jr.	1
Forgery	1
Invisibility (2nd nomination)	1
LOL	1
Old English	1
Plagiarism	1
Stroad	1
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion...	1
Wittenoom, Western Australia	1
Illegitimate nominations	#Votes
AfD 2023	1
None, they all sucked and were unfunny. Lmao	1 :(

Main Page

The Featured Picture of April 1, 2023

• Today's featured article is The Boring Lava Field, a volcanic field that became active 2.7 million years ago.
• Today's Picture of the day is the detail of the head of a Blue-footed booby in the Galapagos Islands.
• The featured picture is a funny-looking self-portait of Richard Gerstl.
• The featured place is the University of Minnesota.
• In the did you know section, there was a fact about a rabbit that played for the Philadelphia Eagles as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame.

Commons

commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates had its instructional text tilted at about the amount people complain about when they see the verticals on images aren't straight. They're not really so observant, are they? It stayed up until April 9, when it was removed.