Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2016
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Arbcom case
[edit]An arbcom case arose around a 2016 April Fool's Day piece in The Signpost, objections to it, and reactions to those objections: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others.
List of events
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Nominations for deletion
[edit]- Racism
- Deletion was nominated for deletion per WP:RECURSION.
- Jimmy Wales was nominated for deletion on the grounds of impersonating Jimbo.
- Donald Trump was nominated for deletion because Bernie Sanders is better... Like, waaaaaaay better
- Bernie Sanders was "nominated" for deletion because Donald Trump is going to be the best president ever! Unfortunately, no one knows where the nomination went.
- In other news, Donald Trump's presidential campaign was nominated for deletion for being a complete hoax
- AOL is nominated for deletion for being 2 old.
- Delta Air Lines was nominated for deletion because of disliking circles.
- iPhone SE was nominated for deletion since it looks like the iPhone 3.
- Tadalafil was nominated for deletion because of the pain.
- Windows 8 was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
- Yandere Simulator was nominated for deletion. On her birthday!
- Twitch.tv was nominated for deletion since Kappa.
- Virgin America was nominated for deletion as the logo looked like boobs.
- HTTP 404 was nominated for deletion
404 RATIONALE NOT FOUND
- Undertale was nominated for deletion on the command of Chara.
- Russia was nominated for deletion because it is too early to give up on communism.
- The report is ran over by a train after the phrase "I like trains" is muttered.
- Wikipedia got nominated for deletion for the eighth time.
- Which is then nominated for deletion because it isn't an April Fools' day gag without a recursive xfd.
- Which is in turn nominated for deletion for not meeting notability requirements.
- Which is then flipped upside-down like a table.
- Which is in turn nominated for deletion for not meeting notability requirements.
- Which is then nominated for deletion because it isn't an April Fools' day gag without a recursive xfd.
- Earth was speedied for being a hoax. Again.
- User:TenPoundHammer was speedied for being a nonexistent user.
- The page is then nominated for deletion, like your common article.
- The United States was nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is a hoax.
- The Rules for Fools page was nominated for deletion for the second time on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a manual of what policies to follow.
- Vandalism on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion on the grounds that everyone can agree that vandalism has no place on Wikipedia.
- This page was flipped upside-down, since it seems that's all NewWikiProfile001 knows how to do.
- Spirit of Eagle then proceeds to flip the page upside down again instead of reverting, meaning the page has been flipped 360 degrees.
- Which is then rotated another 360 degrees, making the page rather dizzy.
- Spirit of Eagle gets so dizzy that he accidently warns himself for edits made to this page.
- Which is then rotated another 360 degrees, making the page rather dizzy.
- Spirit of Eagle then proceeds to flip the page upside down again instead of reverting, meaning the page has been flipped 360 degrees.
- Wikipedia:Mouse! was nominated for deletion because, to quote Noyster, "The excellence of this feature is so blatantly obvious that there is no need whatever for an RfC".
- WrestleMania 32 was nominated for deletion due to AT&T Stadium being closed all weekend, but also due to the fact that fans don't want Roman Reigns as WWE World Heavyweight champion.
- Dihydrogen monoxide hoax nominated for deletion because dihydrogen monoxide is a real issue.
- Shanghai Metro was nominated for deletion since it is too crowded.
- Elizabeth II was nominated for deletion as nobody has heard of this person.
- History was nominated for deletion so we can get a fresh start.
- Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez) was nominated for deletion because it is better whited out.
- Darth Vader was nominated for deletion for misusing the dark side of the force.
- Lascaux was nominated for deletion because it's still too early.
- Frozen (2013 film) was nominated for deletion as nothing could be found through all that ice.
- History of the world was nominated for deletion because it is not notable.
- Microsoft Windows was nominated for deletion (twice) because of a statement from the FSF saying that it's evil.
- God was nominated for deletion for impersonating Morgan Freeman.
- John Kasich was nominated for deletion for not really being a presidential candidate.
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia was again nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is an "egregious hoax."
- Bimbo Wales was nominated for deletion because of "taco".
User Pages
[edit]- User:Peter SamFan's user page was blanked due to an unrecoverable system error. See link. [1]
- You are blocked (fake) User talk:Titodutta#You are blocked
- Jimbo's user page is redirected and then goofed up again. (See link.) [2]
- Widr's user page was turned upside down. [3]
- The Voidwalker's user page went splodey.
- In a stunning display of originality, Spirit of Eagle's user page was flipped by 75 degrees.
General Jerryfoolery
[edit]- An invalid redirect for creation was made and accepted.
- It wasn't realized however.
- This section was renamed from "General tomfoolery" to "General jerryfoolery" as a Tom and Jerry pun.
- But like the invalid redirection request, it wasn't realized.
- Template:Humor got an update (but was quickly reverted).
- And then was changed again.
- In the pranks by year section of Wikipedia:April Fools, the 2016 link was edited so that it led to the talk page rather than the project page. As a result, this page was created on the talk page and remained there for nearly an hour.
- One grumpy User:David Levy decided to warn User:Clubjustin for playing jokes. A Zilla came to eat the grumpy user up.
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems gets tagged with a copyright violation template because the header for the page directly takes from this webpage.
- Wikipedia:April fools was redirected from Wikipedia:April Fools to Never Gonna Give You Up, resulting in a number of would-be pranksters getting Rickrolled.
- An RFC was started at Wikipedia:Mouse! on some impending software.
- Xkcd got sandy,
- WP:NPA Was redirected to titusfox's userpage. 1
- Tumbleweeds were seen crossing the RFA page
- This page got rickrolled.
- How meta.
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Xaosflux made a bot approval request for his fellow bot Fluxbot at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fluxbot 401. "401" should be short for April Fools' Day.