Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

Final name of "General Tomfoolery"/"Other Pranks" section

For the final title of the miscelaneous joke section, I propose making it the last title of April Fools Day. If the title would bring disrepute on Wikipedia (i.e.e its racist), then I reccomend moving back until an approrpiate title is found. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

General Things/Other Foolery JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 06:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

I suggest "'We outdid last year's edit war' foolery". 2604:2D80:610C:4800:A80C:BE68:9DE:63A5 (talk) 13:38, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Related

I did a thing. Discussion welcome there. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:06, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

This page has completely fallen apart

Things are too hectic, I dunno whats gonna happen... DrJosh999 (talk) 03:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing for gods sake.

Please, I am kindly asking you. I hope this nonsensical vandalism will end. We just Wikipedia to be helpful, not a bunch of nonsense. Please stop, alright? It's actually really annoying. Koridas (Speak) 02:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2020

I need to edit this page. Please make it non-protected. 2001:56A:774D:8F00:F5DB:EFD2:5B6F:C9D8 (talk) 03:11, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Aasim 03:21, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit Request

Although I am an auto extended confirmed user. I am making an edit request due to the following reasons

1. The high amount of vandalism could result in my edit accidentally being reverted
2. The high amount of vandalism could make my edit more likely to be interpreted in Bad faith

The requested edit is below

Thank you All hail Armok (talk) 03:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

I'd support, but the picture should be made smaller to avoid overwhelming the page. Sdkb (talk) 07:12, 1 April 2020(UTC)

Done! All hail Armok (talk) 07:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Word Association Game 2020

How to play: Look at the previously posted word, and add the first word you think of. For example: ...

• made me think of: Foo —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:25, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• made me think of: Variables —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:25, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

...

I'll start:

• April! —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:25, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Chaos DrJosh999 (talk) 04:27, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Explosion Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Metagross. Invalid^OS_talk 04:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Disgusting. Koridas (Speak) 04:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Bins I cat tall the dark (talk) 04:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Bans. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 04:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Cans —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:52, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Pop Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Bang. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 05:04, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Bad. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 05:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Sad. –ToxiBoi! _(public) 05:07, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Depression Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:10, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Grey I cat tall the dark (talk) 05:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Blue —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 05:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Sky. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 05:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Clouds. I cat tall the dark (talk) 05:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Nimbus 2000 Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Thunderbolt >>BEANS X2t 05:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Shock. Koridas (Speak) 06:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• owowowowowowow! —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 06:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Mario. 73.168.5.183 (talk) 07:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Cart Sdkb (talk) 07:10, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Train All hail Armok (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Bus MadameButterflyKnife yeah sure.talk 11:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• School Khemehekis (talk) 12:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Vomit Jake The Great! | 📞 talk 12:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• green. I cat tall the dark (talk) 12:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• blue. Jcoolbro (talk) 13:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Hell Homeofthething (talk) 14:16, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• WP:AN/I –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 15:53, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• 1984 DrJosh999 (talk) 15:55, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Dictatorship JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 17:22, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Korea -MegaGoat ^{Contribs | April Fools Day 🤡} 17:32, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Kim. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 18:28, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Harry. ComplexRational (talk) 18:53, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Potter --Diriector_Doc┝^{Talk
  Contribs}━━━┥ 19:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Stoke-on-Trent 107.77.173.1 (talk) 21:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Hospital Spirit of Eagle (talk) 23:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
• Mobile Army Surgical Hospital — Preceding unsigned comment added by Homeofthething (talk • contribs) 00:43, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Tense used in AfDs

Please take seriously

The bulleted list of joke AfDs (link) currently seems to be using the format of something like:

• Scots language is nominated for deletion.

The 'is' is also sometimes a 'was'. (?) I think that the correct word there should be has been, as it represents something ongoing which has started in the past. (Right?) I made that change in an edit. However, it was quickly reverted. Therefore, I have come to the talk page to prevent edit warrring. >>BEANS X2t 05:56, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

I also suggest linking to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2020_April_1#April_Fools'_Day_nominations somewhere in the section for easy reference. >>BEANS X2t 06:04, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Foools' Day 2020 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 08:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

RfC about edit warring and vandalism on the yearly April Fools page

I created a RfC on the Rules for Fools talk page for the edit warring and vandalism that has been occuring on the individual yearly April Fools documentation pages since 2017 and have gotten way too out of hand in the past two years. 107.77.173.61 (talk) 10:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --{{SUBST:replyto|Can I Log In}}^{PLEASE copy and paste the code to reply}(Talk) 16:31, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Contested deletion

tHis projeCt pAGe MaY MEET wikiPeDiA'S cRiteRIa fOR SPeEDY DELetion AS a pAGe ThAt Is PatENT NOnSense, CONSisTING pUrEly of iNcoheRenT TExT Or GIBBeRish wItH No meaNInGfuL coNTEnt OR HiSToRY --Sulfurboy (talk) 16:31, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Still vandalism

People are still continuing to vandalize this page, more protection is probs necessary — Preceding unsigned comment added by Homeofthething (talk • contribs) 17:28, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas stop this nonsense before the admins get involved

Thread retitled from "Why specifically are you disallowing us editing that one section.". This discussion has incoming links, so this was added to prevent those links from breaking. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 21:50, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

We have made it pretty clear we will stop at 12:00 am April 2nd and we're just joking around with an edit war (Since it's April Fools and it seems to fit the guidelines). What's with the big deal now? Why are you trying to put a stop now instead of 5 hours ago? And how does this not fit the guidelines. We're just trying to have fun for just one day. OcelotCreeper (talk) 17:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Yea why can't we have some fun while we are couped up at home?JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 17:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Also, there are current boundaries I have, like the lyrics for thr rick astley song, since that is a copyright violation, and blanking of all of the other content. OcelotCreeper (talk) 18:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

OcelotCreeper, it is literally telling you at the top not to vandalize the page. Koridas (Speak) 18:04, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas 1. This was never an issue last year 2. Why stop us now this late into the day and not hours ago? 3. Its one header thats it. JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

JustAnotherWikiUser0816, let me rephrase something.

April Fool's Day is not an excuse for violating Wikipedia's policies and guidelines

— The template right at the top

It doesn't matter if it wasn't the same last year. Rules change. They don't last forever. Koridas (Speak) 18:07, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas Still why stop us this late in the day? JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:09, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

JustAnotherWikiUser0816, I may be in a different time zone then you. it's only 10:00 where I am.

• It's already 6PM UTC there are only 6 hours left to mess around with the title.JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:13, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  JustAnotherWikiUser0816, exactly. I'm glad we don't have to have the title messed up a whole bunch of times. Koridas (Speak) 18:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Wait as far as I can tell your the only one that is arguing against us, and your a 2 month old user , while many of us are much older than that (Not like that matters much but it is something to note.) JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

    JustAnotherWikiUser0816, Nice try, I am younger than you all, but I have more edits than you all. So I do have experience, even though I'm 2 months old. Koridas (Speak) 18:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

    • Yea but you aren't a mod or anything, your on the same level as all of us, so as of rn we outnumber you.... JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:19, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

      JustAnotherWikiUser0816, Neither are you. You aren't even extended-confirmed. Koridas (Speak) 18:23, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas There is a long-standing consensus that April Fools' Day jokes are allowed and a proposal to ban the Great Edit War this yearfailed to gain consensus. I am going to respectfully request that you either allow April Fools to continue or that the admins take a formal action that adequately accounts for why this is such an emergency that WP:consensus has to be overruled. (Also, this is rather plainly not a real edit war but a community exercise in silliness.) Spirit of Eagle (talk) 18:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

How many edits do you currently have? Because in 2 weeks, I already had 350 edits. OcelotCreeper (talk) 18:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC) @Kordias: Hello? Are you going to leave us here unanswered? OcelotCreeper (talk) 18:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

OcelotCreeper, stop being so impatient, some guy kept on leaving messages on my talk pages. BTW I had 300 edits in the first week. I now almost have 15,000 edits and you don't even have 1000 edits. Koridas (Speak) 18:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas, Please stop your nonsense. You're annoying others and it's getting in people's way. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 18:37, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Also, Edits != Experience. Seriously. You're sounding very arrogant. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 18:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Moonythedwarf, I like how you guys all get pissed off at me for trying to help the community, but now everyone's being a little bitch now even though I haven't done anything to them. Koridas (Speak) 18:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

@Koridas:@Moonythedwarf: Exactly. It could be the smallest 1000 edits are actually in a way harmful, and it could be that the edits one does are small, while others with less edits have more power technically because theirs are big edits. Not saying anything about your edit size, just that saying edits = experience makes you sound like the world revolves around you. OcelotCreeper (talk) 18:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

OcelotCreeper, Well it kind of does since I'm the only one who doesn't vandalize the page. Koridas (Speak) 18:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

• Ok I am actually about to get higher powers involved @Koridas: seeing as you are attacking Eagle and acting very arrogant as if you were a mod. Please stop before you really screw up. JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

  JustAnotherWikiUser0816, Go ahead, honestly I don't give a fuck what you do. Koridas (Speak) 18:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

• Interesting how World War I and World War II were followed by the United Nations, and now there is discussion of Great Edit War I and Great Edit War II being followed by "higher powers". LegendoftheGoldenAges85 (talk) 23:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Self-jokes not allowed?

Rephrased heading. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 18:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC) Alright, as I promised, I will attempt to open discussion. I've attempted to add this to the page twice:

• User:ToxiBoi was skewed, warned, and participated in LTA in one day.
• User:ToxiBoi~pub is no longer the best squad and is established as a paid editor.
  • In addition to that, their page was promptly fool-y protected due to COI issues on their user page (diff).
    • Does me adding this sequence here count as COI?

And each time I got reverted for vague reasons. (The first revert might've been a mistake, but I'm just plain confused about the second one). Could someone please help out and tell me why this content is unwelcome in the article? –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 18:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Pinging Koridas because they seem to still be active. JAWU0816 responded on their talk. –ToxiBoi! ^(contribs) 18:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

ToxiBoi, If you vandalize, then no. Koridas (Speak) 18:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

ToxiBoi, I've told them off. What you were doing is fine. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 18:37, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

It's...Gone?

The entire section that was being warred over on April fools day disappeared! WHAT Tanker4390 (talk) 00:03, 2 April 2020 (UTC) nvm Tanker4390 (talk) 00:04, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

An apology for my behavior

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Guys, I am sorry for attacking some of you. I wasn't thinking correctly at the time and I've realized the huge mistake I made. I should of listened to what you guys were telling me. Although I may be banned soon, I hope this message will get to the people that I have shown overwhelming disrespect to, such as Moonythedwarf, JustAnotherWikiUser0816, OcelotCreeper, and Spirit of Eagle.

I've even felt more ashamed after reading Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:POINT, and Wikipedia:CONSENSUS. This finally made me realize that I was being hateful to the rules and guidelines.

Of course, I was just being stupid and making a fool of myself. I'm embarrassed of my behavior and I am aware the consequences that may happen to me. I was actually under a lot of stress earlier from two things currently happening in my life and a few things that just happened. I'm been very stressed out recently. It hasn't just happened on Wikipedia either, I've gone insane in real life too.

Sincerely, Koridas (Speak) 03:58, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas, Thanks for the apology. All is forgiven. I'm not one to hold grudges as long as someone learned in the end :) Have you seen the WP:DISCORD? April Fools was being discussed there. I understand the stress issue especially. Things are nasty lately. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:55, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Koridas I'm seconding Braden N. here. I appreciate the apology and don't hold this against you in the slightest. Every editor has done something boneheaded during their time on Wikipedia, but not every editor has the maturity and self-reflection to recognize and apologize for it. I hope to see you around Wikipedia in the future. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@Koridas: Thank you. Also seconding Braden, I understand. It's hard to not get caught up in the chaos, which may lead to one forgetting that policies exist. Just make sure to follow them in the future and everything will be fine. :) Invalid^OS_talk 12:37, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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Special CSD criteria for bad April Fools' humor (or humor in general)

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I think that some bad humor may have to be deleted through CSD, but for some of them the criteria is quite ambiguous. Using G6 as "low-participation joke AfD" every time is not the best solution. On the other hand, bad humor may not be so bad to need G3/G10 deletion. I hereby propose a new criterion for speedy deletion:

G15. Unappreciated Humor

This applies to humor that is, in general, not appreciated by other users. This also includes not-so-serious vandalism that would not be eligible under G3 or G10. This includes:

• Low participation joke AfDs in April Fools' Day;
• Parodies that may be insulting/distressing to certain editors (e.g. COVID-19 jokes);
• Inappropriate humor in a serious venue outside of April Fools' (including redirects created after a move to Wikipedia:Silly Things), like AfDs and RfAs

I would appreciate any feedback. Cheeds, TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 06:56, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

• Strong oppose. See WP:NEWCSD - criteria need to be objective, uncontestable, frequent and non-redundant. This proposal spectacularly fails the first two (literally every point is subjective) and completely fails the third if restricted to April Fools. There is also no evidence presented that there are any attempts at humour that should be speedily deleted that cannot be deleted under an existing criterion, particularly G1, G3 and/or G10 meaning it almost certainly fails the fourth requirement as well. Thryduulf (talk) 19:07, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Comment if this proposal is not withdrawn or speedily closed it should probably be moved to WT:CSD which is the correct place to discuss speedy deletion criteria. Thryduulf (talk) 19:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support. We are not Uncyclopedia, and we don't need unfunny humor. Catgirllover4ever (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Comment: As stated above, this might not be neccessary. Instead, G6 exist because it's for uncontroverisal maintanence, so, if uncontroversial, then use G6. {{replyto}} Can I Log In's (talk) page 19:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

• Can I Log In's - Technically G6 only works with some admins, Not all admins will delete it per that, G3 worked better with me but that was only because it was the same admin, G6 or G3 tend to be your best friends. –Davey2010^Talk 20:30, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose. G3 and G6 already cover the vast majority of probable cases, and the abundance of eligible pages would be much lower the other 364 days of the year. Not enough demand to justify a new CSD just for this, and once again, what one admin considers "unfunny" could make another admin's day, so deletions under this criterion can't be objective. ComplexRational (talk) 20:04, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose - Mainly because there looks to be an XFD ban but ComplexRational is correct G3 or G6 will work (both depends on the admin tho). –Davey2010^Talk 20:32, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per all. If the RfC to ban all joke XfDs passes G3 can take care of those; otherwise this is pointless and would probably be fraught with disputes. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:19, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose In addition to the previous concerns, I am worried that some editors will try applying these to old and safely archived April Fools' jokes. Given how subjective and prone to dispute the criteria are, I am worried that it will needlessly dredge up controversy. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 03:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
• Comment from nom I intended for this criterion to be used for terrible, disruptive jokes. In a nutshell, none of the jokes currently extant in the AFD log is eligible. There is pretty much consensus that BLP AFDs are leaning towards disruptive, as are political AFDs. Many of these aren't exactly good per G6 and most aren't in such bad faith to need G3. Thanks, TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 05:50, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Whether a joke is "terrible" or not is subjective, and none of the other aspects you've mentioned are present in the criteria as proposed. CSD criteria must be very clear on what is and what is not covered. Thryduulf (talk) 10:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose, this isn't what CSD is for. >>BEANS X2t 09:23, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
• Comment - "unnapreciated" is particularly subjective; thus, it is innapropriate for a deletion criterion. — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 11:50, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
• Withdrawing suggestion. Thanks for all your feedback. Cheers, TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 13:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Rules for Fools#RfC: April Fools' Day

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Rules for Fools#RfC: April Fools' Day. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:09, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Post-April 1st, Usurp closed

The page says not to edit it so I won't do it directly, but I forgot to note this one username usurp request: [1] I was involved in that just recently closed. Honestly, I forgot about it until now... does it count as "Post-April 1st"? I am commenting on an unusual device (Xbox), so I might make weird formatting changes or removals whilst editing. Feel free to revert if something is erronous and add my additions back in. –ToxiBoi! _(public) 01:35, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

•  Done. The header was so people didn't start pranking before April Fools' Day. Now that April Fools' Day is long gone, I took the header out so people can be bold and add pranks themselves. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 12:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

EPILOGUE

Moved from Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020/The Great April Fools' Day Edit War of 2020

Awful, just Awful. TGEW2 Must never be forgotten. As a relic to humanity's mistakes

God, why? Why have you forsaken us?

I know what you came here for, I know you want Closure (Additional comments after April 1)

• Comment: It shall forever be immortalized on Wikipedia for our future generations. :D
• It will not. 2019's was better. Invalid^OS_talk 00:16, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• So does anyone have a moral for the last 24 hours? I feel like we should have learned something, but I'm drawing a blank. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:19, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Perhaps, Don't trust people self isolating on 4/1?
• Some of the links in the General Tomfoolery section are broken due to the GAFDEW2, could somebody help? ... (PorkchopGMX) (t - c)
• Also, should we have userboxes for this edit war too?
• Yeah
• An infobox would be great. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 02:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

What should the final section header be?

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was let the winner, PorkchopGMX, decide what the header should be.

Ok so last year we decided on “The section that everyone kept edit warring over” foolery or something like that. This year we should decide on something else. I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 00:28, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

• How about ¨Don´t do this next year¨
• I'd support just leaving the winning entry up. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:32, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Listen to living color (the winning entry)
    • It’s Living Colour with a “u”. Official band name. I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c)
• ¨The section that people still want to fight about like it´s Bull Run¨ Homeofthething (talk) 00:56, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Suggestions (pick one):
  • The Ruins of The Great Edit War of 2020
  • just "The Foolery" or "The Unstoppable Foolery"
  • "Foolery 2020: Because We're Bored at Home"
• --7 successful entries. 5 failed. Not very great at jokes (#GenUnstoppableFoolery) 01:00, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Just "foolery." I cat tall the dark (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Use Module:Random to display a random title that was included in the edit war. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:10, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Pick the best one from each hour and repeat it. --7 successful entries. 5 failed. Not very great at jokes (#GenUnstoppableFoolery) 01:18, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• This community needs to be honest with itself that the vast majority of the material beneath the header records acts of vandalism throughout Wikipedia on 1 April 2020, so "Acts of Vandalism" is an apt header title. 107.77.173.1 (talk) 02:06, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Additional comedy.
• "Altri scherzi"
  • ure too l8 4 dat. --7 successful entries. 5 failed. Not very great at jokes (#GenUnstoppableFoolery) 02:33, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Shenanigans as it dosn't involve mention foolery. All hail Armok (talk) 02:49, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Hmm, I would suggest that the header can be all the titles mashed into one! Lovable98158 (talk) 05:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • I'll second this if you volunteer to type it out. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• I Ctrl/Cmd+F and find out there's 210 times mentioning "Xoolery". Pick one xollery expept "Tom and Jerry". --7 successful entries. 5 failed. Not very great at jokes (#GenUnstoppableFoolery) 05:48, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Narrow it down

Ok I think that these could be the most logical choices:

• The winner “listen to living colour!==“
• Normal stuff, like General Tomfoolery and Other things and alternatives of those
• Any of User:TuxStrikesBack’s proposals
• Being honest and saying “Acts of Vandalism”
• Use Module:Random to randomly choose a title from the edit war.
  • Alternatively, choose the best title from each time period and Module:Random them.

Obviously you can suggest something else, but I do not want this discussion to drag on for too long. Please say which one you want and also you can propose different titles. I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 06:02, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

• The Foolery 2020 if there's another one coming in '21. (Cut the April Fools' AFD next year to focused on The Foolery, but keep it clean and simple) --7 successful entries. 5 failed. Not very great at jokes (#GenUnstoppableFoolery) 07:26, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• The winner should choose Homeofthething (talk) 16:03, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Had a lot of fun yesterday guys. But yes, let the winner decide PeteStacman24 (talk) 16:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• Let the winner decide. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:56, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Closure

Could somebody please close this thread and try to determine a consensus? I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 01:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.