Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1918

This page documents April Fools' Day 1918. Jokes about WWI and the Spanish Flu were prohibited; while some were made, the jokes got deleted, and they are not documented here.

Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was nominated for deletion for leaving WWI.
• Earth was nominated for deletion as it always is.
  • The result was Explode.
• Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was nominated for deletion to prevent it from being passed.
  • The result was Prohibit.
• Carolina Parakeet was nominated for deletion for being extinct.
• Julian Calendar was nominated for deletion, as the last country to use it (Soviet Union) stopped.
  • The result was Skip 13 days.
• Fourteen Points was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT.
• Table was nominated for deletion because "table" is an antonym of "notable".
  • The result was Fold.
• Radio was nominated for deletion.

Miscellany for deletion

• Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles
• Wikipedia:Connecting via telephone

Redirects for discussion

• Wiki → Wikipedia
• 1918 (year) → 1918

Templates for discussion

• {{Infobox}}
• {{Baseball}}

Other requests

Requests for adminship

• Andrew Carnegie

Requests for bureaucratship

• ClueBot NG

Requested moves

• Talc → Talk

Page protection requests

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection was requested to be fully protected.

Proposed merges

North Dakota and South Dakota

Other pranks

• On March 28, this page was rotated 60 degrees.
• The Newspaper article was formatted like a newspaper.
• User:Example actually made some edits.
• On April 14, some Russian users, who thought they were still in the Julian calendar, made some pranks. They were reverted immediately.
• A page for 2018 was created - and then deleted for being WP:TOO SOON