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The April Fools' Day Edit War of 2020
Oh God, not another one!
Part of Wikipedia April Fools' Day Edit Wars
Date20 March 2020 – 2 April 2020
Location
Wikipedia

WIKIPEDIA S, APRIL_FOOLS/APRIL_FOOLS’_DAY_2020 N
Caused byWikipedia tradition of bad jokes and other deleted nonsense on April Fools' Day, Precedent from past edit wars on April Fools' Day, impulsive behaviour
GoalsTo cause shenanigans on the April Fools' Day 2020 main page.
MethodsEdit warring, vandalism, disruptive editing
Statuscompleted, war over
Parties
Warriors
Moderators
Observators
Lead figures

Non-centralized leadership

Non-centralized leadership

Wikipedians who do not ever leave their bed
Death(s)A Bachelor
InjuriesThe April Fools 2020 page
ArrestedUser:OcelotCreeper (until April 2)
FinedThe person who was selling drugs and and ruined the city
WinnerUser:PorkchopGMX claims the header
What a year.

April Fools' Day has been a Wikipedia tradition since 2004. In 2015, an editor changed the name of the miscellaneous joke section from "General Tomfoolery" to “General Jerryfoolery”, which spawned a short but friendly edit war that was repeated in 2016 through 2018. In 2019, the First Great Edit War broke out and over one-hundred changes were made to the title of the miscellaneous joke section. As the dust of the first Great Edit War cleared, the community could only wait and see what April Fools' Day 2020 would bring.

In the months and days before April 1, 2020, multiple edits were made to the documentation page for 2020. As the clock struck 12:00, pure chaos was unleashed across the page as editors, many of them quarantined due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, rotated and skewed the page, copypasted the contents of other articles, spammed images across the page (many of them under copyright protection) and generally made the entire page an unintelligible mess. Some order was restored after the page was semi-protected a little after 3 AM UTC, but edits to the "General Tomfoolery" section title continued at a breakneck pace. By the time April 2 rolled around, untold hundreds of article titles had been posted and the Wikipedia community was left shaking its head at the utter chaos that had just unfolded.

Following this edit war, people agreed to prohibit edit warring and vandalism on April Fools Day pages,[1] and administrators are given permission to protect the April Fools Day page and block editors upon any further instances of edit warring and vandalism.

Below is an attempt by the Wikipedia community to document the events of that fateful April Fools' Day.

9–31 March

[edit]
  • On 9 March, the section was created under the name "other pranks". It is left in a comment (<!-- like this -->) until shortly before April Fools' Day.
  • Someone made a section that said "bee movie" but linked to shrek instead
  • In the days (and month) before April Fools, the "Do Not Edit" notice was modified from "tomfoolery" to "pranking", then to "pranking/tom/jerryfoolery", and then to "*foolery", and then a reference to last year’s edit war, before being reworded to avoid further edit warring.
  • 3 hours before April 1st, the other pranks section was pre-emptively renamed "The section name people will probably still fight over" foolery. (Foreshadowing?)
  • Also 3 hours before April 1st, this section was changed to Pre-March 32nd pranks.
    • Then it was Pre-February 32nd pranks.
      • Then it was two dates that we shouldn't mention.
        • Then dark humor wasn't funny
  • The section names were inverted seconds before April Fools.

Midnight–1:00 AM

[edit]
  • Last year's page tried to start the edit war again
  • The section name was changed to general tomfoolery at midnight
    • The second was linked to a rick roll, and then reverted two minutes later for some reason.
  • And then to General jerryfoolery
  • CRAB RAVE!
  • And then back to tomfoolery again. Looks like the edit war could be returning?
  • And then it was How do you turn this on?
  • The Emergency April Fools Shutoff Button was linked to “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Rickroll’d!
  • It's drunk.
  • Then it was Garryfoolery, then it was nothing!!!
  • Then it was the whole 1986 Bigg's commercial.
  • And then Trumpfoolery, then Tom/Jerrytemporary, then Tom/Cary foolery.
  • Then it was the entire text of the US Declaration of Independence.
  • Then it was Jerryfoolery extends Tomfoolery implements Expunged, SectionHeader, FlippedYesExclamation,
  • SCP846566657465717565836589657865678270, Acronyms, Seinfeld, 🅱enandTom, IDONTLIKEIT, EditWar, Madness, The Purge, WingDingsText, StuffEditorsForgotToPutHere (now including egg) WAH WAH WAH WAH Aka: How I learned to kill Wikipedia, Cyberspace, and all other foolery of the Oganesson Sobble on a stick". That's a mouthful. It's now... *inhales deeply* "Jerryfoolery extends Tomfoolery implements Expunged, SectionHeader, FlippedYesExclamation, SCP846566657465717565836589657865678270, Acronyms, Seinfeld, 🅱enandTom, IDONTLIKEIT, EditWar, Madness, The Purge, WingDingsText, StuffEditorsForgotToPutHere (now including egg, (part of a complete breakfast)) WAH WAH WAH WAH Aka: How I learned to kill Wikipedia, Cyberspace, and all other foolery of the Nobelium Scorbunny. Cyberspace is Most important, don’t kill it! On a Stick!!!!!! NO!!! HOW DARE YOU DENY THE STICK?!?! Corporate Sign is supposed to be on the stick!!!!! With ice cream? With the Nobelium Scorbunny and Farancium Grookey Youtube Downloader Bee aCopyright strike article 13 general kenobi AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ejiwopijpo trji-osgiopjer trewh-ohnio pdpoih siohpgreiophwiuh5h98wtnifwij or- ej0whu t8549whoi jfds0j9-t0 j-3429h yeuwi-trnj eiwj-t 5iuhy5-9j 98-u 98u t589uyhrenjidfs9 80" Jesus Christ, and it wasn't even put in correctly.
  • Sometime during that time, the section header was flipped sideways.
  • The Communist Manifesto got posted a few times.
  • ANd then the section title was protected by pikemen.
  • And then it was Other Pranks.
  • There’s a 33rd of March.
  • Then it was General Gerryfoolery.
  • Then it was general jerryfoolery.
  • Then it was a song, then it was weedism.
  • Then it was General Jesusfoolery then General Godfoolery.
  • Then it was General Perryfoolery.
  • Then it was general Spikefoolery, then Tykefoolery then TykeandSpikefoolery.
  • Then it was General Gerryfoolery.
  • Then Red Bull.
  • Then it was eneral PerryMasonfoolery=
  • Then everything was deleted.
  • But then it came back.
  • Thank you all. I want you all to know; it can't go any louder. I want you all to know that America today, America today is on bended knee. In prayer for people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here. for the families who mourn. This nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens. I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon! The nation, the nation sends its love and compassion for everybody who is here. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for making the nation proud, and may God bless America.
  • Blanked to WP:HOAX
  • The page was rotated a couple of times.
  • Then it was "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA"
  • And then it was democracy.
  • Pi was offered to participants! :D
  • Then after a bit of confusion and insanity, the edit war resumed.
  • Then it was "DfX rehtO"
  • Then it was General Tomfoolery again.
  • Then the entire page got reverted to pre-April 1. The section was renamed "Other Pranks". Hopefully, sanity will prevail.
  • Then it was "General Jerryfoolery"
  • Then it was the Bob the Builder theme song.
  • Then it was "General SCP-173foolery"
  • Then it was General MacArthur.
  • There were two separate sections for the edit war for a little bit, so they were combined and the new section became “Other pranks + General Perryfoolery”.
  • At one point, the title was "NO"
  • The title was replaced with the lyrics to the song Money Machine by 100 Gecs
  • 90 minutes in, the page was once redirected to a Request for de-adminship
  • At around 1:33 AM, all efforts to preserve the peace had failed and the community dug in for a second Great Edit War
  • Then it was Posslikely
  • Followed by General MacArthur, Eastern Samar
  • Then it was General Perryfoolery
  • Then General TomCruisery, followed by General Mission Impossible.
  • Then it was "Where is all the Nature?"
  • Followed by "General Oganesson Perryfoolery"
  • It was blanked multiple times
  • Then it was The great edit war 2 electric boogaloo
  • But then there were too many boogaloos
  • Then everyone was told to "go to sleep"
    • Since when was Jeff the Killer a Wikipedian?
  • Then after confusion, insanity and the page being shifted into the past and back, the title became "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA" again.
  • Then there were two sections for the edit war again so they were merged and became “General Backfoolery + Confusing", even though it was filled with Pokémon birds
  • Then it was "General BFDI-foolery"
  • Then it was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2020 Summer Olympics
    • Which is a deletion request from 2005. The debate focused on whether the creation of 2020 Summer Olympics was WP:CRYSTAL. The result was keep, on the grounds that we know for sure that the 2020 Summer Olympics will be happening.[1]
  • The edit war halts as once again the page went crazy with vandalism, with text from many pages, and several reverts.
  • It got skewed too many times
    • Mass changes affecting the entire page notwithstanding, its been stuck at "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA" for awhile.
      • It was also “no” for one moment but lost in the sea of chaos.
  • Then it became This page has been BOMBED!! KABOOM!
    snoitanimon This page has been BOMBED!! KABOOM!
  • Chespirito (see here).

1:00 AM–4:00 AM

[edit]
  • Then it was "retry"
  • Birds, Owls, non-Pokemon birds, furries, weebs...
    • Although, the stick that a fictional owl used marked the return of the WP:STICK
  • Then it became difficult to edit because the edit buttons were gone.
  • Then it was the 2020 april fools pandemicfoolery
  • Then it was Retry? 2: We aren’t able to edit this page
  • And back to Tomfoolery, as the page is finally in an editable state.
  • Then downgraded to Corporal Tomfoolery
  • Then it was back to "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA.
  • Then it became “Cock.AA”.
  • There was one point when someone said there was 56 edits in 81 seconds. It was a reference to Stain (album)
  • Then the title was changed to "Error 404: Section Title not found"
  • Error 404: Retry? 3: The Show Must Go On! not found
    • We probably missed a title.
  • And then "Error 420: Retry? 3: The Show Must Go On! not found"
  • Then it was changed back to the classic "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA"
  • Then it got reverted back to "Other Pranks"
  • Then it was 🔠🔠🔠🔠 EDIT WAR 🔠🔠🔠🔠
  • And then PEEEEEEEEEEEEEACE! Please.
  • Then it was "Other Pranks" before it became "growing pains".
  • Then there were two sections named "General tomfoolery",
  • One of which became "This section is for the Furries".
  • It became "Other Pranks" again.
  • Retry? 4: growing pains
  • "Retry? 420: growing pains", but linking weed
  • "Retry? 421: growing pains", but linking US Highway 421
  • Some dude really wanted to share his pi with us. Tasted gross.
  • "Retry? ∞: growing pains", but linking Infinite monkey theorem
  • Give Up?
  • Monkeys make their own knockoff Retry?: Never Gonna Give You Up?
  • Monkeys make their own knockoff Retry?: Deja vu?
  • Retry?: Deja vu?
  • Monkeys make their own knockoff Retry?: Jamais vu?
  • Then it was "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA" again.
  • Then it was AAAyesA EDIT WAR AAAA.
  • Then it was "General Tomfooleray".
  • Then it was "Seargant Tomfooleray".
  • Then it was "Sergeant Tomfooleray drinks Deja Blue that was given to him by Retry?"
  • Then it was "Sergeant Tomfooleray drinks Red Bull that was given to him by Retry?"
  • Private First Class James Tomfooleray drinks Deja Blue that was given to him by Retry?
  • Private First Class James Vowlesfoolery drinks Deja Blue that was given to him by Retry? 0
    • We almost certainly missed half a dozen steps somewhere in this line, which took less than a minute to unfold.
  • And then it was redirected to this article.
  • Wait What? Retry? 0
  • Wait What? Retry? 1
  • And back to the classic "General Jerryfoolery"
  • General foolery
  • General Perryfoolery
  • Then it was split again, and we had "Monkeys make their own knockoff Retry?: Jamais vu?" and "General Perryfoolery" for a while.
  • Then it was "General KatyPerryfoolery"
  • And then "Noooo...oooooo"
  • Wait What? Retry? 0? Oh wait... Private First Class Retry? has gave away all his Deja Blue and then died of thirst but then he comes back as a ghost 5: General JerryMatthewKatyPeryFoolery General KatyPerryfoolery NOOOOOOOOO That’s NOT all folk
  • That’s NOT all folks
  • Wait What? Retry? 0? Oh wait... Private First Class Retry? has gave away all his Deja Blue and then died of thirst but then he comes back as a ghost 5: General JerryMatthewKatyPeryFoolery General KatyPerryfoolery NOOOOOOOOO That’s NOT all folks (note the plural)
  • And the long "No" again.
  • "General Spikefoolery" again
  • Then it was "Sierra Mist 2: Lemon-Lime Boogie", but struck out
  • "Grand Admiral Oganesson", also struck out
  • Grand Admiral Oganesson
  • Sergeant Jerryfoolery
  • "It has been 2 weeks can I finally pee?"
    • Probably
  • It has been 2 weeks can I finally pee? Please DO NOT kill nature... As in This Section
  • Grand Master Oganesson
  • Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
  • And then it was "AAAA EDIT WAR AAAA" again.
  • Followed by the big no
    • Darth Vader
  • Then it was "Divide by 0"
  • Generalissimo Perry
  • Michael E. Brown
  • [{{^|This is what happens when you divide by 0, [[Brown Dwarf|Michael E. Brown]]}}
    • The title got divided by 0 as per request
  • A man has fallen into the river in LEGO City
    • Compiler note: the main April Fools Day page was semi-protected around the time of this title change (3:08 AM)
  • .............................................................................................................
  • Then it was "This is a header".
  • Then it was split again, and there were both "......................,......................................................................................." and "This is a header" for a while.
  • Then it was "A man has fallen into the river in LEGO City" again
  • Then it was "Green Eggs"
  • Green eggs and ham in LEGO City
  • Green eggs and ham in Q-Bricks City
  • Then it was "Other Pranks" again.
    • Compiler note: The original WP:AFDEW2019 was only a little over 15,000 bytes. This list is nearly 13,000 bytes and its not even 4 AM.
  • Otter Pranks
  • No
  • By this Statement and its parts, all rights, privileges, payments, payments or benefits of the United States and its members are protected and the right to execute this publication under the Agreement is signed in partnership on November 11, 1918. Extension or modification to which it is entitled or entitled received or received by the United States in accordance with its participation in the war or the rights of its members, or you may benefit or benefit from the Versailles Treaty or any of the original committees and agencies that authorize them or the Agency for one or more parliamentary bills
  • General Pranks
  • General Skulduggery
    • Someone notes that too many people are stuck at home right now, with nothing to do but edit war.
      • Someone else adds "We are doomed"
  • Then it was "Other Pranks" again
  • Otter planks
  • Jesus
  • Then "Otter planks" again, but this time linking plank (wood) rather than plank
  • Otter Town Plank Road
  • Then it was merged with "Proposed Moves"
  • Then it was a speedy deletion nomination
  • Then it was "Prnks"
  • Other things
  • Weaknesses existed in both World War I and the New World three tears later. Of course, Ghanian protein is the government's first step. Son of Likakiki
  • Mother Shanks
  • Other things
  • Otter things
    • Note There is an edit conflict here, with some titles that went deleted due to vandalism.
      • I think I've fixed it; I could only see one lost entry which has been re-inserted below
        • Thank you!
  • Title was changed to "Weedism laws made by the Divine Order of the Fruit of the Lions of the Earth"
  • Then it was "General Tomfoolery" again.
  • Then it was "No more vandalism!"
  • General Jerryfoolery
  • Lieutenant Jerry Tomfoolery
  • Lieutenant Jesusfoolery
  • Other Events (please stop)
    • Later edited to read "Other Events (PLEaSE stOp)"
      • Then changed back
  • Then "Otter Events (please stop)", but linking Plank, Kentucky
  • And back to "General Tomfoolery".
  • Then it was

    This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • And then "Other things" again
  • REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee
  • General tomfoolery & other nonsense
  • General Tomfoolery
    • We are missing so many titles here because the edits happen too quickly to keep up...
  • General Jerryfoolery
  • General Tomfoolery
  • Rear admiral Tomfoolery
  • Grand Admiral Tomfoolery
  • List of Wikipedia Lists that do not have the word "list" in the title
  • Which was reverted to "General Tomfoolery"
  • Jar Jar Abrams
  • The stones of grishko
  • General Tomfoolery (again)
  • WHEEEE
  • Other things
  • Then it was "Otter Things", but linking Ghoti
  • Then it was changed to a bad Hitler joke
  • Other Tomfoolery
  • Another long no
  • General whateverfoolery
  • General Tomfoolery
  • Then it was "Almost 4 a.m."
    • accurate.
  • Creepers have learned to multiply RUNNNNNNN
  • erdctfvygbuhnijmokp,lmwrebgf8yvuiwnoegmpf4rvs
  • Chairman Xi-Foolery is sponsored by Hua Chunying
  • And "General Tomfoolery" again.
  • References to El Chapulín Colorado (heart shield, opening, catchphrases and even a copyrighted image of the character).

4:00 AM–5:00 AM

[edit]
  • General Tomfoolery
  • General tomfoolery with a lowercase t
  • Then it was "I got to go to bed bye. OcelotCreeper (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)".[reply]
  • Don’t put your sig in a header.
  • Ocelot Things
  • Otter Things
  • Other pranks AfD: Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NominationName.
  • Then it was ==
  • General somethingfoolery
    • Missing a few titles here.
  • General I-like-ottersfoolery
  • Cock. foolery
  • Chairman Xi Foolery 2: Zhao Lijian's Offensive
  • "Other foolery"
    • Compiler note:It is 4:08 AM and this list is already longer than last year's.
  • Then it was the Navy SEAL copypasta
  • Then it was "Other Things" again
  • I-also-like-sloths-foolery
  • Chairman Xi Foolery 3: Return of the General Big Chungus Foolery
  • General TomFoolery
  • General Tom, Dick, and Harryfoolery
  • Other Pranx
  • "Other Pranx", linking plank (wood)
  • Yan-An: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 1
  • Yan-An: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 420
  • General Salamanderfoolery
  • “Other things” with a link to alternative rock.
  • And once again back to "General tomfoolery".
  • Xi Jinping Coast to Coast: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 2
  • Xi Jinping Coast to Coast: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 421
  • "Other things" (again)
  • Sloth things
  • Then it became "It is now 4:18 AM folks"
  • General Stopfoolery
  • General Storm Wergeland
  • General Storm Alert
  • Belt n Road: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 114514 - Starring the Legendary Yajuu Senpai
  • Other pranks
  • Then it was "General Storm Alert", but linking Sloth
  • Then it was "Other pranks" again.
  • Other things
  • Then it was "Other things", but the link led to sphinx.
  • Miscellany
  • Miscellaneous
    • This is a redirect to Megalocnus, an extinct genus of ground sloths.
  • Admiral Miku Hatsune Foolery
    • Edit summary: Women can be admirals too.
  • Admiral things
  • General Luo Tianyi Foolery
    • Comment Women can be generals too.
  • General DoorStopfoolery
  • General Otterfoolery
  • Then the title was {{^|Please stop!}}
  • Then the title got deleted entirely.
  • Can I leave?
  • Then it was "General Negmat Rahman Foolery - Free Uighurs!", but Free Uighurs linked to Notepad++, referencing one of its release name.
  • Void things
  • Other things
  • Then it was "Other things", linking Otter Media
    • It remained there for a record breaking 4 minutes.
  • Other things being equal
  • Other things being equal
  • General Tomfoolery
  • I have a fun idea: lets see how long we can go without editing this title foolery
    • For the record: 9 seconds.
  • not very long foolery
  • General Tomfoolery
  • General Homer Thompsonfoolery
  • And yet again it was "General Tomfoolery"
  • Which quickly became "General Tommyfoolery", linking Thompson submachine gun
  • how does one participate in the foolery
  • General Lapfoxfoolery
  • General TomfooleryGeneral tomfoolery with a lowercase tThen it was "I got to go to bed bye. OcelotCreeper (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)".Don’t put your sig in a header.OcelotThingsforthisone.OcelotCreeper (talk) 04:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)You're welcome.Renerpho (talk) 04:07, 1 April 2020 (UTC)Even though this wasn't me.Renerpho (talk) 04:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)OtterThingsOther pranks AfD: Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NominationName.Then it was General somethingfooleryMissing a few titles here.General I-like-ottersfooleryCock.fooleryChairman Xi Foolery 2: Zhao Lijian's Offensive"Other foolery"Compiler note:It is 4:08 AM and this list is already longer than last year's.Then it was the Navy SEAL copypastaThen itwas"OtherThings"againIalso-like-sloths-fooleryChairman Xi Foolery 3: Return of the General Big Chungus FooleryGeneral TomFooleryGeneral Tom, Dick, and HarryfooleryOther PranxOther PranxYan-An: TheChairman Xi Foolery Prequel 1Yan-An: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 420General Salamanderfoolery“Other things” with a link to alternative rock.And once again back to "General tomfoolery".Xi Jinping Coast to Coast: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 2Xi Jinping Coast to Coast: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 421"Other things" (again)Sloth thingsThen it became "It is now 4:18 AM folks"General StopfooleryGeneral StormWergelandGeneral Storm AlertBelt n Road: The Chairman Xi Foolery Prequel 114514 - Starring the Legendary Yajuu SenpaiOther pranksGeneral Storm AlertThen it was "Other pranks" again.Other thingsOtherthingsMiscellanyMiscellaneousThis is a redirect to Megalocnus, an extinct species of ground sloths.Admiral Miku Hatsune FooleryAdmiral thingsGeneral Luo Tianyi FooleryGeneral DoorStopfoolery General OtterfooleryThen the title was Then the title got deleted entirely.Can I leave?General Negmat Rahman Foolery - Free Uighurs!Void thingsOther thingsOther thingsIt remained there fora record breaking 4 minutes.Other things being equalOther things being equalGeneral Tomfoolery
  • It was just copied and pasted text from this very page.
  • How original
  • Then it was "Admins, please sysop protect this. Thank you."
  • Other Praingcks
  • 𝔒𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰
  • WP:IDONTLIKEIT
  • And "Other things" again...
  • General Hong Kong Protesters Foolery against General Junius Hoolery
  • ffs just settle on a title already
    • We settled on General Tomfoolery
  • Epic rap battles of Hoolery
  • Other pranks
  • Then it was "Almost 5 a.m."
  • Then it was "Other pranks!", with an exclamation mark, for a change.

5:00 AM–6:00 AM

[edit]

5:00–5:30

[edit]
  • (5am TOTH) This is BBC News, I'm...
    • Sounds like the TV is editing it via smart speakers...
  • Stranger Things
  • Stranger danger
  • Then it was "It’s 505, it’s 505", linking both 505 Games and 505 (song)
  • And "Other pranks!", again
  • Better things
  • Better Things
  • I have a fun idea: lets see how long we can go without editing this title foolery
    • Not long...
  • Then "Better Things!", but with factorial instead of the exclamation mark
  • Then "Better Things|"
  • And that became "Better Thingsǀ", which linked to Tenuis dental click
    • People have way too much time on their hands.
      • Wasn't an actual title, please indent your comments.
        • Comment I wonder why. Cough Corona, cough.
          • It's not like we're all stuck inside.
  • Happy Days!
  • "Worser Thingsǀ", but linking Worser Bay
  • Then it was the Gettysburg Address
  • I have a fun idea: lets see how quickly we can edit this title foolery
    • Nooooooo!
  • "Ho ho it's Christmas!", but linking Hoe and factorial
    • For the record, its not Christmas; its April Fools Day
  • Acid House
  • Then "Acid House" again, but this time linking the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
  • And then it returned back to the classic "General Tomfoolery".
  • General Searsfoolery
  • Other things
  • Then it was flipped Upside-Down!
    • Then that was reverted!
  • Then it was "Sweet Victory", which is a Spongebob Youtube video.
  • Then it was "Other things", but this time linking Odor.
  • And back to "Other things"
    • Could somebody count how many times we went back to “General Tomfoolery”, “Other things” or “Other Pranks
      • Comment That's a request, not actually a title.
        • I count 21 General Tomfoolerys
          • And 18 Other Things at the point this comment was posted
    • My computer deletes when I hit the space bar. Anyone know what the issue could be?
      • Try getting the latest update. https://xkcd.com/1172/
        • For the record: That was an actual title, not a request.
  • That was reverted to "Other things".
  • Then it was "Other things from Orbania", linking Hungarian politicians Janos Ader and Viktor Orban.
  • Other things
  • Older things we have seen before
  • Older things we haven’t seen before
  • Other things/pranks
  • It took an hour of trial and error to log in just so I can edit this stupid header foolery
    • "Welcome to Wikipedia" (Actual title, unlike the following)
      • Im not joking btw it actually took an hour because Wikipedia wouldn’t send me a password reset email
        • Well, look on the bright side: your efforts will now be recorded in the annals of Wikipedia history. Think of the honor.

5:30–6:00

[edit]
  • Then it became Morgan, it’s beans and burgers.
  • Other pranx
  • Prankster Bro!
  • Other things
  • qwertyuipasdfthjkxcvnm
  • Back to "Other things"
  • Then it was "Anyone else getting tired of all these edits [sic] conflicts?"
    • Comment Probably an actual title and a request.
  • No
  • Other things
  • Tom Nook is vandalizing Wikipedia
  • Stranger Things
  • Appropriate Behavior when editing on Wikipedia
  • And yet another "Other things"...
    • Seriously people, come up with some more creative titles
  • Then "Other things", linking to the philosophical definition of Other
  • Owl things
  • Den titel som ingen kan komma överens om
    • Comment That's Swedish for "The title that nobody can agree on".
  • DOOM IS BETTER THEN ANIMAL CROSSING
  • Other Things
  • Then it became "My Immortal is the greatest fan fic eva!!!!!!!" - finally something new!
  • Other things
  • Deck the harrs wis boughs of horry, fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra
  • Please guys lets have fun and not just say “other things”
    • Okay.
  • Other People
  • General Tomfoolery
  • 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼/𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓣𝓸𝓶𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂
  • Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaduken
  • After another "General Tomfoolery", it got changed to "I can't hear you", which was a link to Homomorphic filtering.
  • 遊戲百科規則，萬惡之源
    • Chinese for "General Foolery is Playing with Wikipedia rules", linking to the Chinese Wikipedia's April Fools' Day nominations.
      • Edit summary: "The Swedes did the non-English title first"
  • Another "General Tomfoolery", then "List of articles that are vandalized too often", which is a link to the (frequently vandalized) Makemake.
  • And back to "General Tomfoolery"
  • General Kenobi|Rip the clone wars
  • General Kenobi|Rip the clone wars
    • Comment Rest in Peace, Star Wars.
    • Leaving out a couple of "Other things" and "General Tomfooleries" here.
      • This is getting tiresome- why do edit wars even exist?
  • Too bad the foolery's BUSTED, huh?
  • General Things/Other Tomfoolery (There, ya happy?)
  • There are more things...
  • 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼/𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓸𝓶𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂 (𝓝𝓸, 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻)
  • 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼/𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓸𝓶𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂 (𝓝𝓸, 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻)((Fine))
  • 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼/𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓸𝓶𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂 (𝓝𝓸, 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻)[dubious – discuss]

6:00 AM–10:00 AM

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  • (6:00 UTC TOTH) It's 6 o'clock GMT and this is Newsday from the BBC World Service...
    • My speakers gone wild again!
  • First
  • (6:..
  • Es ist genull nau Uhr.
    • German for “It’s zero o’clock.”
      • Actually not - that would be "Es ist genau null Uhr". It's an infamous mishap that happened to a newsreader on German television.[2].
  • Other things
  • No more other things
  • 404, header not found.
    • 403, header forbidden.
  • 606 Phone-in @ 6:06 UTC!
  • Other things
  • .................................
  • Then it was "Long past 4:20 AM", but linking 420 (cannabis culture).
  • Lmao AM
  • Then we got "
    S K E W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W
    "
  • Kim Jong-Un has resigned!!1!!11
    • Comment Please confirm that this has been an actual title, and not a prank.
      • It was an actual title.
        • Now please confirm that it's also true.
        • Not in the right chronological order though. Please put it between the proper titles.
          • It never showed up for me.
  • The Skew has been subdued.
    • Above text was skewed by 1.
  • The Skew has been subdued.
    • The above was made invisible.
      • It actually just got rotated by 420 degrees
        • So much happened with this heading
  • Comment The owls from the nature reserve are back
  • Comment Who rotated this page?
    • Comment Nobody?
      • Its been rotated I swear
  • Fun has been outlawed
  • 𝓕𝓾𝓷 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓵𝓪𝔀𝓮𝓭
  • Encyclopedia of Visions (der Visionen)
  • All your base are belong to us
  • Other things
  • B A S S !!!
  • Pennsylvania 6-5000
  • Then it was "B A S S !!!", linking Bass (fish).
  • That was changed to " S A L M O N !!!" with Salmon (fish).
  • Then it was "B A S S !!! (Please subscribe to Davie504)", which linked to a Youtube video by bassist Davie504.
  • That was changed to "B A S S !!! (Please subscribe to Davie504)", with a link to a Rick Astley video.
    • Comment and RickRoll'd
  • Morgan, it’s beans and burgers.
  • Then it was "Other Things", which linked to something Undertale-inspired.
  • That became "C H O C O L A T E R A I N ! ! !", which was a song of the same title.
  • Reddit says hi
  • Martin, i'd rather starve than eat this
  • No.
  • Then it was the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise
  • I got my hundredth edit from doing things like this
  • Every-time an edit to this is made, a wiki user gets his wings.
  • The RMCD bot added a requested move template to the top of the page to change the title of the page to Wikipedia:April Fools/205th Birthday Anniversary of Otto von Bismarck.
  • Now there’s a subtitle as well.
    • And another.
      • And another.
        • One more: "Level 6!" referencing the six equal signs in the editor.
    • The second subtitle got changed to "Subtitle 2: Electric Boogaloo"
  • Then it was "Other things" (again)
  • Comment "Good night everyone; it has been a honor edit warring with all of you and cataloging the results for future posterity. I'll hopefully see you all tomorrow before the end of April Fools Day, but in the meantime keep up the good fight! Delectamentum portio est venenum hedera. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:44, 1 April 2020 (UTC)"[reply]
  • Whole section got blanked, just left with "Other Pranks"
    • Fixed in the preceeding edit.
  • Trophies that Sun Yang won
  • Then actually "Good night everyone; it has been a honor edit warring with all of you and cataloging the results for future posterity. I'll hopefully see you all tomorrow before the end of April Fools Day, but in the meantime keep up the good fight! Delectamentum portio est venenum hedera. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:44, 1 April 2020 (UTC)"[reply]
  • Other Things, There is no other things., Other things, Other things (How boring.), Yes. (How boring.)
  • A new header at the bottom that "you are free to change all you want" but then "you aren’t free to change".
  • Now the header is "yyyyyyiithou aren’t free to chaaaaaaange"

Here it was mostly people leaving their mark by signing the heading, and at a few points it actually went back to "Other things/Pranks".

  • (7:00 UTC TOTH) It's 7 o'clock GMT and this is my amateur radio station
  • Other things
  • Other
  • Then it was "My turn to sign off, thank you guys for such a wonderful night! :D Have a bit of pi to celebrate! 3.14159 DrJosh999 (talk) 07:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)"
  • And "I'm signing off, too. This was fun and a good distraction, thanks all! Have another piece of pi: 26535897 [[User:Renerpho|Renerpho] (talk) 07:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)"[reply]
  • Then it was Other Pranks yet again.
    • But it’s Opposite Day!
  • (8:00 UTC TOTH) It’s 8:00, do you know where your children are?
  • Yee!
  • The section heading now links to a Youtube video.
  • The link was then changed.
  • Just before 9:00, the link was changed to !!!
  • After 9:00, it was changed to Whee!

10:00 AM–12:00 PM

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12:00 PM–2:00 PM

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  • (12:00 UTC) We are halfway through the war and I'm out of ideas
  • So am I
  • Removing this is illegal.
  • ...Or is it?
  • ==
  • welcomE TTo tHE EDM poRtal
  • And the long no is back
  • Tomfoolerie Generále
  • Jerryfoolerie Generále
  • Kenobifoolerie Generále
  • This article isn't a stub. You must help Wikipedia by expanding it.
  • Brasserie Generále
  • ...and...
  • Not related to Hitler I swear
  • Godwin's law
  • Toothbrush in my mouth go broom brooooooom
  • We need more DOTs
    • Then the title was briefly removed.
  • Connect the dots!
  • Back to the long "No"
  • ==
  • https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/
  • Jeeeeeeeevahebkjioghpocdeeeeeee
  • Other things
  • woah thats haram bro
  • Cars may or may not go "vroom"
  • Raymond and Marshal loves it!
  • Minceraft
  • Ḥ-R-M
  • woah thats haram bro
  • Morgan, it's beans and burgers.
  • Please remember that redirects are not allowed. Seriously.
  • Then it was an email address.
  • That was changed to "Anal Weedism".
    • Followed by "==Anal Weedism"
  • ====U======================================U=
  • It isn't 4:20 PM yet
  • My vision is augmented
  • Then it was a bit "No", linked to Darth Vader
  • Techno Remix Cocotama
  • Techno Remix Communism
  • Ricefields
  • Then it was "Then it was "Then it was "Something else"""" [sic]
  • Alright this is me signing out for now, it was fun(ny) but i'm tired and i want some sleep. Please fellow wikipedians, continue the legacy of beans and burgers. icttd out. User:I cat tall the dark (talk) 12:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Then it was "Followed by "==Anal Weedism"====U======================================U=It isn't 4:20 PM yetMy vision is augmentedThen it was a bit "No", linked to Darth VaderTechno Remix CocotamaTechno Remix CommunismRicefieldsThen it was "Then it was "Then it was "Something else"""" [sic]"
    • Which was just copy/pasted from this page.
      • Followed by a ridiculously long chain of "Then it was"'s.
  • beans and burgers, per User:I cat tall the dark's request
  • Anal Communist Requests
  • [New jack swing|Old jack swing]] (skewed)
  • 他们又欺负我了！！！呜呜呜！！！ (维基美眉) 12:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
    • Chinese for "They went after me again! --Wikipe-tan"
  • Stephen Colbert's Wikiality Machine 2000: Now Available in Trevor Noah's Wakanda OS
  • WIKIPEDIA CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE
    WIKIPEDIA CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE
    WIKIPEDIA CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE
    WIKIPEDIA CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE
    WIKIPEDIA CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE
  • Then it was a Google Translated version of the Hellboy (2019 film) plot.
  • Old MacDonald (skewed)
  • Armin van Buuren (skewed)
  • A series of big "No"s
  • Then it was the text of the Wikipedia main page.
  • Ghanian Protein
  • Then it was the unspaced text about Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use.
  • The Main Page template again
  • No long words.
  • Then it was the WikiProject article quality grading scheme template, The Kansas City Chiefs roster template, Ochako Uraraka from My Hero Academia template.
  • List of anally satisfying films
  • The Third and Fourth Fifth Hour of The Today Show
  • The MAMA
  • The PAPA
  • And a series of big Darth Vader "No"'s again.
  • Then the entire page was replaced with "Reality has become a commodity".
    • Which was shortly reverted
  • BBC Newshour (L) / Xinwen Lianbo (R)
  • The elephant population tripled in the past 6 months
  • This illustrates exponential growth.
  • Rectal Anarchy
  • "My god, some one's just flashed the "5 Demands, No More Less" gesture on TV!"
  • "My god, some one's just flashed the "5 diamonds, Not Less" gesture on TV!"
  • "Mulan supports the Wikipedia police!"
  • I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
  • I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
    • Then the section was proposed for speedy deletion 27 times using every general SD template possible.
      • Except for the ones that the proposer broke because there were so many.
      • Which was reverted
        • That was reverted back.
          • And reverted again for good (maybe).
  • My steamed hams articles are ruined!
  • Save Pamela from the bovine thief!
  • That was reverted back to every article speedy deletion template possible.
    • Which was reverted, and turned into "General Homer Thompsonfoolery: The Grimes Strikes Back"
  • General Homer Jerryfoolery: The Grimes Strikes Back
  • General Tomfoolery: The Grimes Strikes Back
  • General Jerryfoolery: The Grimes Strikes Back
  • General Jerryfoolery: The Grimes Strike Back
  • And the speedy deletion requests again...
    • Except this time it was for the whole page, not just the section
  • This was turned into "General Jerryfoolery: The Grimes Strike Back"
  • General Jerryfoolery: The Grimes Strike Back
  • General Thomasjeffersonfoolery: The Grimes Strike Back
  • That became "General Thomasjeffersonfoolery: The Grimes Strikes Back" because of "Grammar".
  • Miscellaneous Pranks
  • A long chain of elephants
  • Megalonyx Pranks
  • Misogynistic Pranks
  • Poppy (Animal Crossing)
  • Poggers Pranks, bro
  • Poggers Pranks, pro
  • Back to the Hellboy plot.
  • Yoda finds Luke with a box to kill his father.
  • That became a version of the Star Wars plot.
  • Which became "The Communist Manifesto".
  • Opium overdose
  • Opioid overdose
  • I haven't laughed so hard in weeks, thank you!!
  • Poppy Opioid overdose
    • Which was Rickroll’d.
  • This was followed by a big, rickroll'd "NO"
    • That was shortened to "Nope."
      • That became a rickroll'd "Yes."
  • Almost 2:00 PM

2:00 PM–3:00 PM

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2:00–2:30

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2:30–3:00

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This period consists of mostly various fetishes, schisms, and a few refrences to earlier section headings.

At this point, an argument erupted whether fetishisms should be used in the titles.

  • Typing fetishism on Wikipedia fetishism
    • They are tired now.
      • Possibly missing a couple of titles here.
  • Stop with the fetishes seriously, it's just disgusting
    • I agree, seriously. Please everyone stop, and don't add fetishism-related titles to this list. Thanks!
  • AAAAAA
  • AAAAAA EDIT WAR AAAAAA
  • non
  • The jokes must go on
  • Retry? 6: Retry? 3: The Show must go on
  • the Arithmetic of creepers
  • Another big "No"
  • "She paints her fingers with a close precision..."
  • Possibly a sombrero
  • G3, G6, G7, G10, G20, G-whatever, let's purge'em all! #Wikipurgia2020
    • Another callback from last year.
  • Heck no! We won't go!
  • i love emilia
  • How I learned to stop worrying and edit Wikipedia
  • “Hello boys! I’m baaaaaack!”
    • The link was then changed to Uranus.

3:00 PM–4:00 PM

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3:00–3:30

[edit]
  • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  • Praise z0rg!
  • Wheeeeeeeeeeee
    • A rickroll link was added shortly after
  • Nuclear attack bees!
  • 469705 ǂKá̦gára
  • It then became the Gettysburg Address
  • Patent Nonsense
  • It's time 4 Countdown (or The Price is Right)!
  • Give me the plant.
    • YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE PLANT!
      • Yes I can.
  • Plant burning fetishism
    • shut up with fetishisms
  • owo
  • The J Man
    • This one's about Jesus.
  • The J Man
    • This one's about Joe Stalin.
  • [[Category:!!!! Yay this is the first Category on the list]]
    • This was displayed as an empty title.
  • The New Series of X Man
  • F1rs7 P0s7
    • F1rsL P0sL
      • F1red P0sL
  • Weed Eater
  • Rejected Made In China Material
    • Accepted Made In China Material
      • Accepted Made In Taiwan Material
        • Accepted Made In Сhina Material
          • That last one has the Cyrillic letter С instead of the Latin C.
            • Accepted Made In Chyna Material
  • there are chemicals in the water
    • there are chemicals in the water (besides H2O)
      • Followed by Tsuyu Asui template.
  • ZLEA for president 2020
  • Exploding Creepers fetishism
  • Justice for Pamela!
  • Wikistocks just closed...
    • Another speaker incident!
  • Stock Market Crash fetishism
    • Seriously, no fetishism
  • Water is MudaMudaMuda
  • You do not recognize the bodies in the water
    • You do not recognize your body in the water
  • I missed 4:20 PM :-(
    • Fly to a country on UTC-1:00

3:30–4:00

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  • "Famous Persons" dropped 10%, "Locations" up 5, "Fictions Inc" up 2... more after this break
    • The speaker heard too much!
  • owo uwu owo
    • owo uwu owo fetishism
  • Plague Inc. is up 40%
  • 4:20 pm is in 50 minutes, you didn't miss it
    • What a relief!
  • <s>I learned how to do strike through yaaaay!</s>
    • Displayed as I learned how to do strike through yaaaay!
  • Vaginal expulsion fetishism
    • Is there a Godwin's law for fetishisms?
      • Penile expulsion fetishism?
        • Karma Sautra fetishism
          • No ideas fetishism
            • Please for the love of god/allah/any hindu god/whatever god(s) you worship please stop!
              • Stop what? I don't use drugs
                • You know what we mean
                  • Nooooooo...
                    • Yes
                      • Even longer NOOOOOOOOO...
                        • Okay.
                          • Thank you!
  • (rickrolling)
  • Spam is bad. Seriously don't taste it.
  • The page documenting this stuff is so messed up on mobile now because of the yes/no fight
  • And the 27 template deletion request is back!
    • Actually 81
    • But is quickly taken care of.
  • Spam is good meat
    • Spam is good meat, are you referring to internet spam?
      • Yes.
  • Requested for deletion again, this time with Rickrolling
    • And reverted
  • I feel like they will not let us do this again next year.
    • I agree
      • Screw it, this is 2020!
        • Well. at don't do something that will prevent doing jokes like these in the future
  • General Jerryfoolery
  • General Fetishisms
  • this the result of this page crashing and burning, up to over 400 kb of it, in 3 hours
  • Noooooooooooo...
  • 4:20 vf 25 zvahgrf gb tb. V'z greevoyr ng Wbxr NSQ!
    • ROT13 for "4:20 is around 25 minutes to go. I'm terrible at Joke AFD!"
  • 4:20 vf 25 zvahgrf gb tb. V'z greevoyr ng Wbxr NSQ!
    • Yes, zvahgrf gb tb (minutes to go).
      • Plus a rickroll link
  • NEVER GONNA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU UP
  • Rickrolling fetishism
    • Edit warring fetishism
      • Oh dear, here we go again...
  • I want die
  • We can't go half an hour without a new fetish
    • We can't go half an hour without a new fetish or 2

4:00 PM–5:00 PM

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4:00–4:19

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  • 20 mins 2 go!
    • 20 minutes to go!
  • We can't go half an hour without a new fetish or 420
  • 😉
  • General tomfoolery
  • 🤔
  • Hating the word fetishism fetishism
  • General tomandjerrymanderingfoolery
  • General Jerryfoolery
  • General Tomfoolery
  • General Chrisfoolery
  • General Benfoolery
  • General Donnafoolery
  • General Lesliefoolery
  • General Aprilfoolery
  • General Andyfoolery
  • General Ronfoolery
  • Hauptmann Ronfoolery
    • That broke the page.
      • Back to "General Ronfoolery"
  • General ParksandRecfoolery
  • General Fetishismfoolery
  • S K E W W W W W W W W W W but it's the other direction now
    • skewing fetishism
  • "Other pranks", once again linked to Otter and plank (wood)
  • The Jezor
  • The Jezor
  • =======================
    • ============List of Anal deletions===========
  • 8 minutes
  • weedism
  • Take it easy, we have time.
  • List of nicknames for Jesus
  • ==
  • 2 minutes
  • 1 minute
  • 30 seconds before all hell breaks loose

4:20–5:00

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  • SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY!!
  • 4:20pm fetishism
  • And I'm not even late.
  • Free weed, click here
  • Stop with the rickroll lol
  • Other Pranks <!-- Please do not change this without consulting the [[Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020|talk page]]-->
  • Ottttttttttter Pranks <!-- Please do not change this without consulting the [[Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020|talk page]]-->
  • Stop with the rickroll lol <!-- Please do not change this without consulting the [[Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020|talk page]]-->
    • Stop with the rickroll lol== <!-- Please do not change this without consulting the [[Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020|talk page]]-->
      • That was reverted.
  • Stop with the rickroll lol
  • Double Rickrolling fetishism
  • 10 minutes into this and not much has happened. I want my money back.
  • Person to make the best foolery varient wins a humor barnstar. Go
    • Person to make the best foolery varient wins a humor barnstar. Go (has to be a General Xfoolery name)
  • More of these, unless you want the fetishes to return
    • General Drunkfoolery
  • Is there a time limit? I think people are taking the slow approach.
    • You have until 5:00
      • 5:00 what day?
        • 5:00pm today, so 20 minutes
          • OMG, such a hurry!!! :-o
            • Nein
              • Jawohl.
                • Comment German for No and Oh yes.
  • Nien Nien Nien!.
  • 5 minutes if you want to get a humor barnstar
  • Template:US_Presidents
    • But in a way that broke the page.
  • General tom-and-jerry-tom-dick-and-larry-over-the-moon-foolery

5:00 PM–6:00 PM

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  • Times up
    • Renerpho wins for the General everbodyistoostonedtobecreativefoolery edit
      • "Nien!"
        • Thank you, I appreciate it! :-)
          • Of course he wins with a stoner joke
            • You have to admit, it fits into the general narrative
              • But still it's a very easy joke to make and not very creative
                • Yeah that's what made it my favorite, he was literally making fun of how everone is just out of ideas at this point and just creating new name only for the edit war list.
  • YOU WERE SPECIFICALLY ASKED NOT TO EDIT THIS
  • Sorry but you can't stop us.
  • Going against wiki april fools requests fetishism
  • I have lunch for a while, bye
  • Alright folks - thanks for helping me (and maybe a few others) get some distraction when times aren't easy. We can all need a good laugh. I'll see if I can get back before time's up, until then enjoy your time!Renerpho (talk) 17:10, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Three things: 1. Cya man 2. Why is the page now comic sans 3. As per Wikipedia:Rules for Fools, this is totally allowed.
  • The page was put in the header
  • a tiny "your mom" replaced that.
  • Then some guy named Koridas decided we can't have fun and tried to shut it down over the next hour or so and got piled upon by like 10 people.
  • The header is now at "General Things/Other Foolery" at it seems that it will stay at that.
    • & Knuckles.
      • Reverted
  • Then it was the first 100 or so digits of pi.
    • Reverted
  • Back
  • Yeet
  • lets just fill the edit war article up by changing this in patent nonsense.
  • "Reverted"

Editors were then encouraged to add their own nonsense to fight the mods, which seems to be working.

  • The goat's milk burned into calories
  • All the nonsense of the Vibranium Buizel
  • Jesus stereotypes that turn green when they fart mushrooms out of their fruit
  • Back to "General Things/Other Foolery"
  • List of Evil Genderless Cats
    • Reverted
  • All the nonsense of the Vibranium Buizel & knuckles
  • Back to General Jerryfoolery
  • Then General Tomfoolery
  • All the nonsense of the Vibranium Buizel & Knuckles VII Deluxe: The Second Part (Now featuring egg with a hint of crab rave!)
  • moster trucks walter
  • Someone then shipped the Vibranium Buizel with the Oganesson Sobble of last year's edit war.
  • Then it was changed to "General Jerrehfoolery"
  • Do happy things REALLY make people happy?
  • Then it was changed to "Figment". Who knew that we still have our imaginations!
  • General things that are otherwise foolish

6:00 PM–7:00 PM

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  • People are now complaining about the edit war being stopped by a user on the talk page of the April Fools 2020 page
  • General Things/Other Foolery
  • I think you should just look at the history
  • PRAISE THE MODS! .
  • Crab legs that shoot turpentine out of the bears
  • Leopards will eat spears and kill us all!!!!!
  • COVID 19 vs communist elephants
  • I need help keeping track of the titles on the great edit war page
  • Baby Shark doo dood oood doododo d [sic]
  • Mass ping Kordias
    • 1) You messed up his name in your ping. 2) That's actually against wiki rules
  • owo uwu owo
  • Yay the war shall continue. Just don't insult Koridas, I can see what problem he had.
    • Yea but he acts like a jerk about it.
      • ”Jerk” was redacted because don’t insult Koridas. Also, MAKE IT FUNKY!
  • Comic Sans-With the section turned to comic sans
    • MEGALOVANIA
  • Then it became Figment's open house
  • The section was slanted
  • Never Gonna Give You Up lyrics broke the title
  • We're no strangers to love. You broke the title and so do I
  • Never gonna give you up lyrics again
  • Hi, Mom!
  • Bye, Mom!
  • Billy, NO!
  • Ha! You've activated my trap card!
  • Leave
  • General Kenobifoolery

7:00 PM–9:00 PM

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9:00 PM–10:00 PM

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  • Ab Wibibbobebb bibab Abbibbes, a bbobosab was babe bo abb a sbabb bown in bonbana bo bhe bebeb 1 bisb.
  • Backstreet's Back!
  • A Self-referential infobox is added... literally
  • And then another brief ceasefire.
  • (Revert this section, it’s confusing) is added, referring to the "Obheb bbobosabs".
  • The craziness disappears.[citation needed]
  • Then Skew? and Obheb bbobosabs
  • INCOHERENT TECHNOBABBLE
  • Then the page was skewed. Big surprise.
    • The self referential infobox is still alive at this point.
  • The page fell on its[citation needed] side.
  • Then it stood up for itself.
  • Rotation of my Imagination
  • Added: Another self-referencing but otherwise empty infobox that would like to complain on behalf of the self-referential infobox above that this page is not rotated enough.
  • can someone get me some whataburger im hungry
    • Burgerking is better
  • This page is vandalized![citation needed] nvm? I think?

10:00 PM–11:00 PM

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  • It is 6PM in North, South Carolina
  • the header now reads "YOU ARE WRONG"
  • no u-flipped upside down with the rest of the section
  • The self refrencing infobox died.
  • Some text is still upside down. (This was my hundredth edit! Tanker4390 (talk) 22:04, 1 April 2020 (UTC))[reply]
  • The Fat Controller laughed.(Still upside-down)
  • The header becomes "Because there is no section 16, there is no place to save your edit. This is your only warning; if you introduce jokes into articles again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice." Still upside down.
  • The following was added:
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  • "Because there is no section 16, there is no place to save your edit" is shortened to "because your edit."
  • Heading becomes: Per WP:Consensus this is totally allowed. The last user who tried this got in hot water with admins.
  • Still upside down!
  • "this title shall be nothing but beans and burgers" (and the upside down died.)
  • I fixed it, it's no longer upside down!
  • Header becomes: "Tag, you’re it!" with a template: "This user[who?] is banned from editing the English Wikipedia. Administrators, please review the banning policy before unblocking. (block log · contributions)"
  • “Tag, you’re it!” is now a link to some external website., but then it got removed entirely leaving just the {{Banned user}} template.
  • "sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS" appeared! (a reference to a previous edit war on the capitalisation of the words in the title) [sic]
  • A template saying "This user is not banned from being a good person . IP users, please review the banning policy before unblocking." is added.
  • Header becomes: "I'LL BE BACK SOON I GOTTA USE THE TOILET"
  • Ceasefire!(It's becoming hard to tell the diff between the two pages because of the i n s an i t y s t a i r s.)(i'm talking about myself too much i'll stop)
  • stats trek: into calculus
  • Muhahahahahah! Click here to edit this heading
    • I'm surprised that it's not a rickroll...
      • It had this editnotice instead (this is {{New release editnotice}}): "Yes, you really are editing Wikipedia right now!
      • You are actually editing the Wikipedia article "April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020"and if you press Publish page below, your changes will be publicly viewable – immediately. Vandalism and test edits are swiftly removed by Wikipedia volunteers, so please do not waste your time and theirs by saving changes which do not improve the article. Of course, constructive changes are welcome – but know that vandals will be blocked from editing. For this sort of article, it is especially important to avoid rumour, so it is helpful if you can cite a source for information you add. Use the Sandbox for test edits, or go to Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 to make comments or suggestions. See the overview article on how to get started editing. We are excited to have you contribute! Thank you."
    • Then it said this: Muhahahahahah! Click here to edit this heading ---- wOW, i'VE nEVER sEEN m y s e l f E D I T b e f o r e InSeRt hApPy FAcE
      • Still not a rickroll! InSeRt hApPy FAcE [sic]
  • At some point someone made this: "Getting a bunch of Wikipedians to edit an article with jokes is very reminiscent of giving randos on a Minecraft server the power of console commands. All of a sudden it's raining monsters, houses are being cloned and superimposed on other objects, TNT is being spawned... good times."
  • Headers and sub-headers were layered in a staircase look, saying: "beans and burgers and beans" over and over.
    • Every one of those headers was replaced with a header saying "I AM BACK", likely in reference to the user who had left.
      • Which was then changed within seconds to "I AM FRONT".
  • And then "Tits."
  • "Tits and beans and burgers"
  • The header became fake again and then welcomed April Fools to hellWikipedia.
    • There was a “Click here to edit” link again, but this time if you clicked it the editnotice on top of the page would say that you were auto blocked.
  • Then it became "Killer Queen has touched this page" (not...not the one you're looking at).
  • Then "bat eating time"
  • Then it declared itself as THE INVISIBLE MAN with a link to the Queen song.
    • (An edit conflict? Finally someone else edits this page.)
  • The header became THE UNVISIBLE MAN.
    • he it became unvisible.
      • Then he was visible and an album.
  • Then it became death, the destroyer of worlds.
    • Was linked to trinity bomb.
      • It added "NONVISIBLE MAN" to it's resume (but not actually a resume.)
        • Then linked to that external website again.

11:00 PM–11:50 PM

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  • It was linked to something different.
    • Then it became "thanks."
  • Then "burgers and beans." classic.
    • Which was linked to Katkiz.com
  • It became "International Wikipedian Self-Referential Section on Prefixes", progressively applying prefixes to the word "founded": de-, un-, re-, dis-, anti-, and eco-.
  • The self-ref infobox appeared again.
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  • The International Wikipedian Self-Referential Section on Prefixes was destroyed.
  • Someone added an infobox of "Tsuyu Asui This Page"
  • The header became "burgers and beans and beans"
  • Then "Ology" with a link to Time's Up (Living Colour Album).
  • Then it was "One day Chancellor Palpatine was in his office when Commander Cody came in. Palatine told COdy he was hungry and demanded food. Cody asked what type. Palpatine responded: Pizza!. COdy asked how many pies he should get. Palpatine said Order 66!"
  • At one point someone added this:
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    bool logical = 1; // Person of Interest was a great show
    for (int i = 0; logical == 1; ++i) (i > 0) ? std::cout << "21 Die" << std::endl : std::cout << "22 Die" << std::endl;
    return 0; // they literally ended the [TV] program by ending the [archetypal] program
}
  • Someone added an infobox of "Tsuyu Asui This Page" again.
  • …
  • Then it was "Hey you lil' piss baby, you think you're so fucking cool? Huh? You think you're so fucking tough? You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck"
  • And then it tried to sing Solace of You but it got redacted due to copyright problems and ordered everyone to sing in the edit summary
  • Thirty minutes to go...
  • Then the header was "no more track names yes more beans and burgers"
  • Then "🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀"
  • It then proceeded to ask Mr. Krabs if he was feeling it now.
  • "Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs? ==🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 If nobody’s gonna sing Solace of You then listen to the song ok now ok Sego]"
  • "Mÿ bōī"
  • History’s a lie that they teach you in school
  • Twenty minutes to go...
  • "Dinosaurs are people too"
  • "Dinosaurs are just oil"
  • "Dinosaurs are dead Dinosuars have left the planet"
  • Then it was this:
To the people logging the titles, don't worry too much about cosmetic edits. Titles are coming in so quickly theres a huge risk these cosmetic edits will clog out actual titles with edit conflicts. Unfortunately Dinosaurs are dead and Dinosuars have left the planet.

11:50 PM to Midnight: Final ten minutes of April Fools Day

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[citation needed]

  • "Quit Spamming Infoboxes" became the header while the infobox was deleted.
  • "General shade Foolery"
  • "General I am the program foolery"
  • 'Five minutes remaining!'
  • "happy april fools day"
    • "I WISH IT WAS APRIL FOOLS EVERY DAY"
      • "NEVER"
  • "april fools peeops"
  • "Morgan, it's beans and burgers."
  • DEMOCRACY FOREVER!!!!!!
  • "SEE YOU NEXT YEAR"
  • Thats all folks
  • THE FINAL ULTIMATE MINUTE OF ULTIMATE FOOLS DAY
  • MUSICIANS I RECOMMEND: JEFF ROSENSTOCK, BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!, SMALLPOOLS, MIRACLE MUSICAL, JACK STAUBER, BLACK MIDI, CHRIS FARREN, ANTARCTIGO VESPUCCI, TAME IMPALA. HAVE A GOOD DAY
  • Many iterations of "Democracy forever" were posted in rapid succession.
  • Fifth to last title of April Fools Day: Democracy forever!!!Democracy forever!
  • Fourth to last: Other pranks
  • Third to last edit: the final beans and burgers, theres like one minute left lmao
  • Second to last edit: Other Pranks
  • And the winner of the Great Edit War was "listen to living colour!==" posted by PorkchopGMX at 11:59 PM.

Post-April 1

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  • Other pranks
    • The first post-April 1st edit.
  • alone, at the edge of the universe, humming a tune - miracle musical (but the header was broken)
  • Other
  • Other Pranks
  • General Tomfoolery
  • It's Over
    • CHEER
      • Comment: Well done, everyone.
  • General tomfoolery
    • Its 16:17 AM now, and it looks like this will be the settled title.
  • The header that everyone edit warred about. Again. (Other Pranks)
    • So turns out the prior comment was wrong
      • A link to the discussion about what the final header should be was added
        • And then a link to the discussion about moving that discussion was added.
  • Then it was “Other Pranks (temporary title, see below)” with the links put in a {{see also}} template.
  • And finally, as decided below, User:PorkchopGMX, the winner, will decide what the header should be.
    • The answer was non-conclusive. Thus the final title was be based on "listening to living colour".
      • You spoke too soon... The answer answer is based of the answer but with a lot more stuff. And it’s this (ahem): “*WP:GNG!* *WP:RS!* *WP:N!* *WP:NPOV!* *WP:SFoD!* *WP:(Redacted)!* New high score! Wikipedians listening to Living Colour Ok what should I do now? Uhh... someone was selling drugs so Buy and die, sell and be free! We are the new Jacks! The reason why I didn’t accept them is because the drug lords ruined the city and police snuffed a medical student down. And Pay the price / Snake eyes! Ok what next? Elvis Is Dead and here’s my favoUrite Living Colour song.And throw in a Maroon 5 reference: Came without a wallet so I had to shoot him dead Finally, here’s a jail made out of cardboard.But seriously, thank you all for making this a thing. I will thank all participants in this General Tomfoolery. Then there is a easy chair. I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 5:16 am, Today (UTC−4) (Also how has this still intact?)/ Other Pranks / General Tomfoolery / Other things / Sunday morning, rain is falling Certified “-“ In South Korea” and the sub header is “Wikipedians not listening to Living Colour (My personal opinion on those: ”Sometimes it’s worse than that stupid TV!” ”I have had it with you!” “WHAAA WHAT THE (Redacted)!? Oh, and I don’t care who I offend! The cops like Clorox bleach” (Yeah I’m sorry) I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c)
        • Unfortunately, the header was reset to “Other pranks” because it was too long and couldn’t even be put in the edit summary.
  • And finally, as chosen by User:PorkchopGMX, the header will be “Wikipedians listening to Living Colour” with a link to an old revision with that overly long header that was described above.

The rest of April Fools'

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See here.

Userbox for Those Who Participated

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  1. ^ Request for comment on edit warring and vandalism on individual years' April Fools page
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