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RfC: April Fools' Day
Talk page size was starting to get a little long (160+ KB) so I'm moving this to a separate page. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 17:34, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020#Special CSD criteria for bad April Fools' humor (or humor in general)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020#Special CSD criteria for bad April Fools' humor (or humor in general). -KAP03 (Talk • Contributions • Email) 19:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Update: Proposal has been withdrawn. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 16:50, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
April Fools Day
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This is a useless day, someone was nearly killed because of those kind of behaviours people put out there. I mean only fools does that. Samarium StyLes Govenor (talk) 03:35, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- If you believe Wikipedia shouldn't celebrate April Fools' Day, feel free to express that opinion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/April Fools' 3 * Pppery * it has begun... 03:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- Think of the children! PackMecEng (talk) 03:58, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
RfC: Ban April Fools pranks on all talk pages
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The rules currently say that April Fools pranks are banned on mainspace and help talk pages, but do not mention anything about other talk pages, like userspace talk, wikipedia talk, template talk, category talk, file talk pages, and so on. I propose that the April Fools pranks ban be extended to all talk pages, for the same reason as was given in the discussion to ban pranks on mainspace and help talk pages. 73.168.5.183 (talk) 00:44, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose You're no fun. Benjamin (talk) 01:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Usertalk I would grant a gentle and limited nonobjection to pranks, at best. All other spaces, support. If you know someone well enough to prank them, and to even know if they like pranks, you know them outside of Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia first and foremost. Congenial relations with your fellow editors is good; using Wikipedia as a playground is generally speaking, bad. One puppy's opinion. KillerChihuahua 16:07, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- I disagree with your claim that If you know someone well enough to prank them, and to even know if they like pranks, you know them outside of Wikipedia., but even if we granted that belief for the sake of your argument, it does not obviously follow that pranks perpetrated against editors that you also know outside of Wikipedia would need to be moved off-wiki. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:43, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose As the rules currently stand, if jokes are banned on a namespace then they are also banned on that namespace’s talk page (and vice versa). The proposed rule would ban jokes on the talk pages of namespaces where jokes are allowed. For example, under the rule I could upload a silly picture to file space but I would be punished if I made a silly comment on the talk page of that file. This is a bizarre and drastic rule that would cause a lot of confusion and require sanctions for harmless, time-honored April Fools traditions (such as funny user talk page messages). If you think April Fools Day is fundamentally harmful to Wikipedia and want to go nuclear on the festivities, then just ban the holiday; this halfway ban will cause far, far more problems than it resolves. (Full disclosure: I would oppose a total ban but think it would be preferable to the current proposal).Spirit of Eagle (talk) 18:14, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose per Spirit of Eagle. Hell, we post joke stuff even on policy talk pages from time to time, just to relieve tension. Wikipedia is a human project, not a Vulcan one. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 20:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- I wonder what would be left, if this proposed rule were implemented. Joke AFD nominations and silly proposals on the Village pump pages, but surely we don't actually think a note on a friend's talk page has more potential for disruption than those. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:48, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose and trout nominator. Talk-page jokes are mostly harmless. Can’t think of any problems / disruptions we’ve had with them. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 03:19, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
- Close RfC without prejudice, and open it again on April 1 2021. This one really got me laughing. You can't be serious! Jokes are good. Jokes keep you healthy. jp×g 11:18, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose - As just not needed. PackMecEng (talk) 17:33, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
RfC: Ban vandalizing the Wikipedia:Rules for Fools on April Fools' Day
Now that people can no longer mess around with the main Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022, they are now vandalizing this article instead, such as by rotating the Wikipedia:Rules for Fools article by some random degree, making it really unreadable. I propose that vandalizing Wikipedia:Rules for Fools should be banned from the April Fools' Day activities, and that people engaging in such activity be treated as they would be if they were vandalizing in article space. Preventing vandalism on Wikipedia:Rules for Fools is extremely important for people to know what is and isn't allowed on Wikipedia on April Fools' Day. I don't really why people think that vandalism is okay on these pages, it's the same issue that caused the 1st and 2nd Great Edit Wars. B2TF (talk) 08:56, 1 April 2022 (UTC)