Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2018

Deletion nominations

Note, this is a complete list, neither is the category.

AfD

• A miniature naval cannon was sent to the bin
• Anime was nominated for deletion.
• April Fools' Day was nominated for deletion because today is really Easter.
  • Equally, Easter was nominated for deletion because people will be too busy celebrating April Fools' Day.
  • The result was it's over.
• Circle was nominated for deletion per WP:CIRCULAR.
  • The result was circular redirect.
• Climate change was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
• Dab (dance) was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was convert to WP:DAB page.
• Daily Mail was nominated for deletion.
• Donald Trump was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
  • The result was make it great again.
• Earth was nominated for deletion.
  • This is actually Earth's 9th nomination; it had to be created here because the 9th nomination page was salted by an admin with no sense of humor.
    • One year and 20 days later, the numbering gap is corrected as a technical request.
  • The result was live with it (or rather on it).
  • The article was then nominated for adminship (see below).
• Easter bunny was nominated for deletion.
• Evolution was nominated for deletion for being a hoax.
  • The result was evolving.
• Fidget spinner was nominated for deletion per WP:FAD.
  • The result was speedy spinning. ߷
• Firefox was nominated for deletion because "Chrome is miles better".
  • The result was a burnt fox.
• Fox News was nominated for deletion for being fake news.
• Glass was nominated for deletion because "I can see right through this article. Therefore, it should be deleted."
  • The discussion closed as smashed
• I HAVE A RIGHT! was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was explode.
• Jason Voorhees was nominated for deletion because "We cannot afford to have this maniac on the loose."
  • The result was Friday the 13th is coming up.
• Justin Bieber was nominated for deletion because the original version of Despacito is better.
• KFC was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Kim Jong-un was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was speedy keep. "That's it I'm nuking you all, First on my list is North Korea."
• Laura Ingraham was nominated for deletion.
• Mami Kawada was nominated for deletion per WP:NSINGER.
• McDonald's Monopoly was nominated for deletion.
• Mexico was nominated for deletion "so that no one can stop us from building the wall!"
• Michael E. Brown was nominated for deletion.
• Neptune was nominated for deletion.
  • A redirect is suggested to Uranus.
• Never Gonna Give You Up was nominated for deletion, but every link on the page was actually a rickroll.
• Palpatine was nominated for deletion because he is too dangerous to stand trial.
• Philippines was nominated for deletion.
• Places That Don't Exist was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• Political culture of Canada was nominated for deletion for being too boring and WP:CRUFT.
• Salt was nominated for deletion.
• Sand was nominated for deletion per WP:SAND.
  • Maybe incubate it at Draft:Pebble?
• Sand geyser was nominated for deletion.
  • There was also a serious deletion nomination for the same article.
  • A redirect to Neptune was suggested.
• Saoirse Ronan was nominated for renaming because WP:FLUENT.
• Singapore was nominated for deletion per WP:FINE.
• Snoop Dogg was nominated for deletion per WP:GN Single G.
• Spamming was nominated for deletion per WP:DENY.
• Star Wars Holiday Special was nominated for deletion per WP:DENY.
• Stub was nominated for deletion.
• Sun was nominated for deletion. "The Sun magically exploded into a planetary nebula 29.5 days ago. Even if it did not explode, it would not be notable per WP:NSTAR and WP:NOTSTARGUIDE. Maybe a redirect to Star or Supernova is the only solution"
• The Incredible Hulk (comic book) was nominated for deletion. "Hulk smash! Smash Hulk!"
  • The result was smashed.
• Tiangong-1 was nominated for deletion.
• Toys "R" Us was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was liquidate and then what?
• Triangle was nominated for deletion for failing WP:NSHAPE.
• Uganda was nominated for deletion because "Whoever wrote this article does not know da wae."
• United Kingdom was nominated for brexiting
• Wreck-It Ralph was nominated for deletion because "I'm gonna wreck [this article]!"
  • The result was wrecked.
• Several soccer articles were nominated per WP:TOOSOON:

1. 2018 FIFA Club World Cup was nominated.
2. 2018 FIFA World Cup was nominated.
3. 2019 OFC Champions League was nominated.
4. 2019 AFC Champions League was nominated.
5. 2019 AFC Cup was nominated.

AfD that should have been MfD or TfD

• Template:In the news was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTNEWS.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 April 1 was nominated for deletion.

MfD

• Category:Living people was nominated for deletion.
• User:K6ka was nominated for deletion for being in the WRONG direction.
• User:L3X1/CSD log was nominated for deletion.
• User:Linguist111 was nominated for deletion.
• WP:AFC was nominated for deletion.
• WP:MFD was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 1 was nominated for deletion as unused, making fun of an overused TFD reason.
• Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law was nominated for deletion.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 April 1 was nominated for deletion
• WP:Sandbox was nominated for deletion for being nothing but vandalism.
• User:TenPoundHammer was nominated for deletion.

CfD

• Category:Category namespace was nominated for deletion for not being meta enough.

Other nominations

RfA

• The Easter Bunny was nominated for adminship.
  • Closed by non-crat as successful, citing WP:IAR.
• SineBot was nominated for adminship.
  • Closed as unsuccessful.
• Moses was nominated for adminship.
  • Closed by non-crat as successful, citing WP:IAR.
• ClueBot NG was nominated for adminship.
  • It was closed as successful by a non-crat per IAR... and appeared in the admin newsletter.
• Earth was nominated for adminship.
  • Closed as successful, or rather yes, hooray, good for you, now scram 'cos April Fool's ended ages ago. (P.S. The first person to mention I'm also the nominator gets trout-slapped.)

RfB

• SuggestBot was nominated for bureaucratship.

  It was closed as successful by a non-admin noting the (non-)personal attacks in the oppose section.

DYK

• Wikipedia:Did you know was nominated for DYK.

🅱️eneralrelativetomandjerrywordsalamanderfoolery

• {{troutme}} was added to {{Information page}}. It has since been reverted.
• This section's title was changed from "General tomfoolery" to "General jerryfoolery", yet again.
  • It was then changed to general Tom and jerryfoolery, because why not both?
    • Yet again, it was changed into general gerrymanderfoolery.
      • It was then changed into general salamanderfoolery, erasing all other jokes.
        • It was then put into a word salad, summarizing everything that happened today.
          • And then it was changed to what it is now.
• The image on Jimbo's userpage was changed.
• The Vandalism Barnstar from last year is awarded to Jimbo.
• Click here for an iPhone!
• An IP user started replacing first letters of words with 🅱️ in this page
• Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2018 was tilted 35999 degrees. OCD wikians everywhere revolt.
  • Then it fell over.
    • Then the number lost 90 degrees. The page is tilted by 26999 degrees.
      • Then it was brought back upright.
• This Page was redirected to Uranus.
• Jimbo is warned about being the founder.
• A discussion took place to close down Wikipedia.
• Funny DYK's as discussed at Wikipedia_talk:April_Fool's_Main_Page/Did_You_Know#Quick_straw_poll_on_faux_politician_trio.
• WP:LTA gains a "See also" link to Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Wikicup participants got 1000 temporary bonus points

Other projects

• French Wikipedia's main page fr:Wikipédia:Accueil_principal gained a "startup" animation, recognising the iconic role the former Minitel had on French telecommunications. The main page styling was also changed to 'emulate' the colors of that system, as well as displaying main pages in low-resolution pixel format, (the normal resolution could be accessed by moving a mouse over the images).
• English Wikivoyage, ever prescient of developments for the travel(l)er, presented a travel guide for Mars, as a featured destination on its main page.