Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2014
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List of events:
Nominations for deletion
[edit]- Justin Bieber was nominated for deletion.
- Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was nominated for deletion.
- In return, Ohio Department of Transportation was nominated for deletion.
- Lunch has a food pun-filled AfD.
- Auburn University and the University of Alabama are nominated for deletion on the basis that Jimmy Wales must choose one of two football teams.
- Geology is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is obviously fictional.
- Jeopardy! is nominated for deletion on the basis of not being in the form of a question.
- Notability in the English Wikipedia is nominated for deletion for being non-notable.
- Stephen Colbert is nominated for deletion.
- That Mitchell and Webb Look is Wangernumbed
- Windows XP is nominated for deletion.
- Alternative medicine is nominated for deletion as a fringe theory.
- Rickrolling is nominated for deletion for being completely unsourced.
- And then List of successful rickrolls is seriously nominated.
- Human feces is nominated for deletion as a conflict of interest.
- Vandalism is nominated for deletion for having no vandalism in it to demonstrate notability.
- Twitter is nominated for deletion for being longer than 140 characters.
- Motel 6 is nominated for deletion for failing to leave the light on.
- Madness is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is blasphemy.
- Stand-your-ground law is nominated for deletion.
- Finland is nominated for deletion as imminently redundant to the Russia page.
- Pangaea is nominated for deletion for being no longer notable.
- Alternative rock was nominated for deletion since rock is good enough so no need to alternative.
- Human is AfD'd for WP:COI (for the fourth time now).
- Zoidberg is AfD'd with a not-so-subtle reference to his catchphrase on the internet.
- Drug is PROD'ed[1].
- Lorem ipsum is nominated for deletion.
- Solar System is nominated for deletion.
- New York City is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is too boring.
Project pages
[edit]- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion is nominated for the 4th time
- and its nomination is subsequently nominated.
- Wikipedia:Citation needed is nominated for deletion. [citation needed]
- Wikipedia:Notability is nominated for deletion for not meeting Wikipedia's notability requirements.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 April 1 is nominated for deletion…
- and so is its nomination…
- and its nomination (twice!)
- and its nomination...
- and its nomination!
- Oh, and its nomination page as well.
- and its nomination!
- and its nomination...
- and its nomination (twice!)
- and so is its nomination…
- This page is nominated for deletion.
- Wikipedia:Rules for Fools is nominated for deletion.
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions is nominated for deletion for the third time.
- and the discussion itself is nominated unironically.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is nominated for deletion again.
Special pages
[edit]- Special:Listusers is nominated for MFD
- Special:UserLogout is nominated for deletion.
User pages
[edit]- User:TenPoundHammer is nominated for deletion as blatant advertising, and then actually deleted (for the second year in a row).
- User:Tokyogirl79 is nominated for deletion over concerns of ownership and hoaxes.
Other nominations
[edit]- Willy on Wheels was nominated for adminship again.
- Wikipedia:Featured articles is nominated for FA status.
- The Twelfth Doctor is nominated for extermination.
- The nominating user is then "blocked" [2] for running an unapproved Dalek.
- Doge has been nominated for FA status. shibe on!
- Wikipedia:Featured lists is nominated for FL status.
- The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are nominated for merging[3] on the grounds that they're too similar and the distinction is artificial.
- Anonymous126, a doppelganger, is nominated for adminship.
- Good (a disambiguation page) is nominated for Good Article status, for clearly being a "Good" article.
General tomfoolery
[edit]- All your base are belong to us ON WHEELS! is listed at DRV.
- User:Jimbo Wales is reported for indef blocking.{{deadlocked}}
- And blocked.
- Your face is listed at DRV.
- And is then redirected to Your Face, an actual article.
- It is proposed that Requests for Adminship be replaced with a system where users pay for adminship.
- StevenD99 returns from a long wikibreak and replaces all the links on his userpage to a link that will rickroll everybody. This is what happened.
- A hoax notice about Earth being AfD'd (which had been done eight times before and was explicitly asked not to in 2014) was put on this page.
- Windows 2000 was listed on REFUND.
- Wikivoyage listed Wikipedia as the Destination of the Month
- The S.S. Naked Sun from Kill la Kill gets inducted into the MSDF.
- There is no discussion about redirects here
- Upside Down (disambiguation) is turned upside down.[4]
- WP:BOLD is boldly redirected to Star Trek.[5]
- HMS Vanguard (23) lives again.
- WP:VANDAL is redirected to Special:ActiveUsers.[6]
- At 23:59, VVVVVV is flipped upside down.[7]
- Horse worship is redirected to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom.[8]