Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

• First was nominated for deletion.
  • Appropriately, this was the first April Fools Day prank of the day.
• The Game (mind game) was nominated for deletion, with a suggestion to delete User:Melecie as well.
• Shazaam was nominated for deletion.
• The Earth was nominated for deletion because Mars is sweeter and someone locked all the Earth nominations.
• Page Is Delete
• Punctuation was nominated for deletion, probably the true first article nominated on this day. Take that, "First"!
• Disambiguation (disambiguation) was nominated for deletion.
• It's time to say farewell to Celeste (video game).
• Anthony's poison arrow frog, a single species of poison dart frog, was nominated for deletion for being the most evil frog to ever exist, apparently having tortured the nominator.
• Wordle was nominated for deletion, because the knockoffs are better.
• Thirteen Colonies was nominated for deletion per the Declaration of Independence.
• MJL was nominated for deletion by JJP.
• Toki Pona was nominated for deletion due to being a non-notable con-langue.
• Michigan Wolverines football was nominated for deletion for breaking the nominator's heart last year.
• GPT-2 generated several fake users and endless rambling about planets so Planet of the Apes could be nominated for deletion.

The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by five degrees.

The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by 420 degrees.

It was then rotated 2001 degrees by a very angry ape.

And then 1968 degrees

And then 69 degrees

And then NEGATIVE 69 degrees.

Then it was turned upside-down by ANOTHER angry ape.

Then the apes had a change of heart.

Then the ape who had a change of heart rotated it to 270 degrees.

Then the text went back to normal while the ape got on a horse and left the building.

After a non-canonical

skew

of the text, GPT-2 summoned more bots to the discussion.

And then the nomination was itself nominated for deletion to stop the apes from taking over the Earth

Then Wikipe-tan died on the page.

Then she was brought back to life.

And then died again.

Then the angry apes came back.

Then the nomination was ceremoniously rotated 100000 degrees

Then the text was

skewed

again, but by 260 degrees.

• Geometry Dash was nominated for deletion because 2.2 hasn't come yet.
• Character (arts) was nominated for deletion since a fictional character does not exist.
• Bruno Madrigal was nominated for deletion because we don't talk about Bruno.
• Non-fungible token was nominated for deletion for being easy to right click.
• List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOMUCH and WP:JUNK.
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (film) was nominated for deletion as it's upcoming release date would make it interfere with Rex Manning Day.
• Sock puppet account was nominated for deletion for WP:SOCKPUPPETRY.
• Racing was nominated for deletion to stop editors from racing to nominate articles on this day.

"Normal" on this was liked to Speed Racer

The link then later changed to Running in the 90s

Then it was changed to Bicycle Race

• Like was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• GameCube was nominated for deletion because cubes are a boring shape.
• Stephen Colbert was nominated for deletion to prove the non-existence of WP:WIKIALITY.
• The 94th Academy Awards was nominated for deletion twice.
• Русский рубль было номинирован на удаление за бесполезность, при этом вся страница на русском языке.
• Deltarune was nominated for deletion per WP:SPAM thanks to a certain [[Big Shot]].
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• Uncyclopedia was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT
• Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion because of Twitter stan.
• Wikipedia:Sandbox was nominated for deletion for being filled with test edits.
• grammar and speling werenominating for deltedion per WP:USELESS]]
• POV was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NPOV.
• Arthur (TV series) was nominated for deletion for being cancelled.
• Bruno (name) was nominated for deletion because we don't talk about Bruno.
• Eric Cartman was nominated for deletion because Cartman used Big Smoke's quote.
• Penis was slammed in the car door.
• Cyclone Cody was nominated for deletion for personally attacking the one person who died in the storm.
• Blue was nominated for deletion because Red is so much better.
• Where's Wally? was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• Profanity was freaking nominated for deletion because why the hell not?
• Aglet was nominated for deletion because it was the one word that was forgetful to remember.
• Wikipedia was nominated for deletion. Twice.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is nominated for deletion.
• Benedict Arnold was nominated for deletion because we never heard of him.
• Engineer was nominated for deletion per "engineer gaming".
• Genshin Impact was nominated for deletion because the nominator lost 50/50 to Qiqi.
• Honkai Impact 3rd was nominated for deletion because of all the honkai energy present on the page.
• Arminia Bielefeld was nominated for deletion because no evidence of this soccer team exists.
• Multi-function display was nominated for deletion because the abbreviation MFD clashes with Wikipedia:MFD.
• Max Weber Sr. was nominated for deletion because he was from a place that doesn't exist and so probably didn't exist himself.
• Tinder (app) was nominated for deletion because a user wanted to know if they should delete Tinder.
• Russia was nominated for deletion because "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!"
  • The nomination page was then legitimately nominated for deletion.
• Adult Swim was nominated for deletion to put an end to Pibby's traumatization.
• Blank Space was nominated for deletion with a blanked XfD template.

...and then the nomination subpage itself got blanked.

• Articles about long lived tropical cyclones were nominated for deletion per WP:TOOLONG.
• Line (geometry) was nominated for deletion for similar reasons.
• SCP Foundation was nominated for deletion by consensus of the O5 council. There will be no further communication.
• Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro was nominated for deletion because what better way to celebrate the titular character's birthday than by deleting her show's article?
• Subaru Natsuki was nominated for deletion for similar reasons, although he was mostly damned.
• 2022 FIFA World Cup was nominated for deletion because the tournament hasn't started yet.

Categories for discussion

• Category:Contents was nominated for deletion for being a redundant category to Special:AllPages.
• Category:Bielefeld was nominated for deletion for being a category for a nonexistent city.

Files for discussion

• File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.

Miscellany for deletion

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources was nominated for deletion for being unreliable.
• This page was nominated for deletion for being mostly comprised of the same joke ad nauseam.

Let's be less original. – AssumeGoodWraith (talk | contribs)

• Wikipedia:IRC was nominated for deletion for not being used anymore.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Planet of the Apes was nominated for deletion in an attempt to stop the apes from taking over the planet.
• Special:AllPages was nominated for deletion because the page should be purged.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 was nominated for deletion for being filled with vandalism.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Boy Advance family was nominated for deletion because the nominator messed up when trying to create a joke AfD for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

...A reason so random, it probably is true.

• Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants was nominated for deletion for not being notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia.

Redirects for discussion

• "Hoax" was nominated for deletion. Creating "Hoax"es is absolutely not allowed in Wikipedia.

Templates for discussion

• Template:Citation needed was nominated for deletion because of Wikipedia:Citation needed.

This was later nominated for deletion.

• Template:AprilFoolsNotice was nominated for deletion because April Fools should last forever.

Users for deletion

• User:Leatherbear was nominated for deletion because the user claims to be based in a nonexistent city and so probably doesn't exist.

Other requests

Requests for adminship

• help my account is compromise idk what that means

Requested moves

• Milton Keynes Dons F.C. → Spartan South Midlands Football League

Featured picture candidates

• File:Inside a cornflakes bag – 360° photo.jpg was nominated for featured picture.

User page pranks

• Spirit of Eagle tilted his page by 4 degrees, then got smashed by the almighty whale. A trout was added later.
  • Then it was tilted by 184 degrees
• The furry Whisper the Wolf symbol on User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki got too big.
• Melecie substituted the entirety of The Game (mind game) over at their page. In Comic Sans small font. And fixed to the page.
• Disoneiscool8745's page was graced with 4 trout slappings and two whale smashings
  • The random link that appeared last year returned. This time saying "It has returned" while linking to duckroll.
    • The link then got changed to a clip of Bionic Max
      • Then it was deleted
• Lovable98158's page was then graced with 4 trout slappings and two whale smashings, with a side of The Bee Movie script.
  • The Trout slappings and whale smashings have been cooked and deepfried, and the bee movie script disappeared
• User:EEng has been blocked because his IP is full of cats. Appeal pending.
• Pythoncoder turned his userpage into a sandbox
  • Knowledgekid87 built a sandcastle on their userpage.
• User:Panini! made a reference to last year.
• User:EpicPupper made their userpage upside down.
• User:PorkchopGMX turned his userpage into an article about his reincarnation of the Pork Chop Gang.
• User:JalenFolf decorated his userpage with the lyrics to the song "Living in Paradise" from Not For Broadcast.
  • It was later self-reverted and self-tagged for copyright violations.
• As with previous April Fools days, User:Cyberpower678 put a fake new message box on the top of their page to trick users into thinking they have a new message on their talk page, but the links lead to an April Fools message.

Other pranks

Notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. Per consensus on joke vandalism, this section's name is fixed, as some people cannot handle the responsibility. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

• Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded again.
• WP:HAT turned into a hat note.
• WP:ITALICTITLE was italicised for the first time ever.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2022 broke to the point that some nominations only showed up as blank bullet lists. Even the {{humor}} tags were bereft of text.

  This was due to an unclosed <div> tag on the page Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Small.

• WP:UNDERLINE was underlined.
• Jimbo got replaced with a giant sea creature.
• A (slightly dated) spoken version of ANI was released
• On Wikipedia:April Fools, the links for this page and the page for the previous year's Fools Day were mysteriously swapped.
• The link below that presumably links to "Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2022/Example" was changed to link to a Rick Roll.

  And then it was changed to a Duck Roll

  And then to a "fake Rick Roll"

  And then to a clip of The Loud Librarian.

• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools was put into Dark Mode

  then turned upside down

  then all the Es [sic] got removed

  then it got "fixed up"

Joke pages

These will be a subpage of the page you are on right now, such as Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2022/Example, as they would be deleted as a hoax anywhere else.

• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/South Carolina vs. Penn State Qix semifinal, an infamous college Qix game (turned from a video game into a physical sport).
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/Generic acid: What do you think movies' unspecified "acid" is made of?
• WP:October is updated to celebrate another year of the Halloween article existing
• List of famous toasters, an article describing the most famous toasters ever assembled.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/Canvas shows what looks like a Canvas course gradebook and a Canvas student's grades page respectively.
• {{Cite bathroom graffiti}} was added to the roster of CS1 templates
• Wikipedia:Featured sentences was launched
• A wikiproject on evilness was proposed
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Users was launched to systematically assess the quality of Wikipedia editors
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/how_2_make_a_wikypeda_articel, in which a computer illiterate person asks for help on how to make a new article.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/White Sox vs. Reds, Top of the 4th, March 31, 2022, a random inning of a spring training game blown into article size.
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/The Spinning Shrine, a page that houses the spinning shrine.

(Serious) articles about silly topics written or improved

See Wikipedia:Unusual articles for inspiration.

• Not gonna lie, I might improve space advertising more given the crazy private space race that is now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 01:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh boy, here we go again Lovable98158 01:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

The main page participated again in the April fools. The featured article for this day is Coropuna, documenting a dormant volcano in the Andes. The featured picture shows Hippos from Chobe National Park in Botswana. DYK once again served an assortment of humorous entries.

XFD poll

Click here to vote your favorite XFD nomination. Closes on 4 April 2022 00:00 UTC. You only get to vote once, so choose wisely.