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Let the jokes begin!

And happy twenty years of April Fools Day pranks on Wikipedia!

• Last year's AfD nomination for Bobby Witt Jr. has been reopened because it had only ran for merely two hour and nineteen minutes last year. Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!
• Animutation was nominated for deletion because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims.
• Earth was nominated for deletion for the 18th time. One day it will be successful.
• Kyrie Irving was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
• Pessimism was nominated for deletion.^{[citation needed]}
• Rules were nominated for deletion per Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.
• Good faith was nominated for deletion per WP:ABF.
• Apollo 11 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• Artificial intelligence was nominated for deletion per WP:AI and to save humanity.
• Artificial intelligence art was nominated for deletion for the good of Wikipedia and the society it rules.
• TikTok was nominated for deletion.
• Filli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy cry twice in this episode.
• Kanye West was nominated for deletion per WP:No Nazis.
• Mercury and Venus are nominated for deletion as they are both unlikely habitable for human now and in the future.
• Michael Chavis was nominated for deletion because the nominator was reminded of a short-haired Chavis over at Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023
•  Invisibility 
  was
   nominated for deletion a second time 
  because the nominator had the same idea as the first person.
  • Does not work on Wikipedia's smartphone app because of Wikipedia:Dark mode.
• What's the point in keeping our article on Adley Rutschman if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season?
• Ohio was nominated for deletion for... I have actually never been there, so I am going to bring up eyewitnesses to know what is happening in Ohio.
• Nature was nominated for deletion.
• ChatGPT nominated itself for deletion.
• Comment got commented out. Go to edit source to read what it says.
• Fox was nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior wolves.
  • Wolf was also nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior foxes.
• HTML is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
• The Interstate Highway System, especially all primary Interstate highways, is nominated for deletion for destroying Wikipedians' neighborhood and being as overrated, overengineered, and overbuilt as heck.
• Invisibility is nominated for deletion per MOS:TEXT
  • Unlike the other one, this one does work on Wikipedia:Dark mode.
• IP address is nominated for deIetion per m:IP masking.
• Whopper was nominated for deletion for being closer to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than Burger King.
• Stop doing Mathematics
• Semicolon was nominated for deletion because Python is better.
• September, October, November and December are nominated for deletion as they are misleading.
• Shipping (fandom) was nominated for deletion to prevent flame wars.
• Splatoon (Splatoon 1, Splatoon 2 + Octo Expansion, and Splatoon 3) are nominated for deletion. Yes, this nominator will ruin today's Splatfest, so stop vandalizing and turf warring on Chicago's transportation system.
• Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so AfD'd so that nobody would expect it.
• Stroad is nominated for deletion for being dangerous and only served to get cars to travel at 69.2 kilometres per hour (43.0 mph).
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie was nominated for deletion because the nominator wanted the Sonic movies to be superior.
• To the Moon was nominated for deletion for being cryptocurrency propaganda.
• April Fools’ Day was nominated for deletion for false statements on this page.
• Old English was nominated for deletion on the basis that the language is simply an elaborate prank.
• {{April Fools AfD Reasoning|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME|reason={{{2}}}}}
• r/place was to be whited out.
• Someone got mad at Combinatorial game theory because they moved second in a game with value ${\displaystyle *}$.
• Field of Corn was nominated for deletion because for the fact that we can't eat concrete corn, and it's yucky.
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are nominated for deletion for ḃḕḯɦĝ а̄ Бчḡḡλ ΜεṤṤ
• Physics was nominated for deletion

• index.php was nominated for deletion.

• Special:ProtectPage was nominated for deletion per WP:OWN.
• Vector 2022 was nominated for deletion because everyone doesn't like it.
• Special:Logout was nominated for deletion per WP:HOLIC.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Recursion is trying to delete itself.

• User:Awesome Aasim was nominated for deletion for undisclosed reasons.

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Witt Jr. was subject to a deletion review because Witt failed to cut his hair in the year between the AfD and today.

• That Thing by That Place was nominated for creation for being notable.

Please do not add the "{{Rm/dated}}" template (or immediately remove it as soon as it is added), as that will tag the page with the requested moves tag. However, please feel free to open a joke requested move proposal and list it here.

• File:Commons-eligible fan art of Babylon Rogues generated by Bing Image Creator.jpg was nominated for featured picture. It all started with Jet the Hawk's ego...

• A Recent Death nomination was made for Sonic the Hedgehog per The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.

• User:Melecie has officially had their life ruined by TV Tropes.
• The furry Whisper the Wolf symbol got replaced with a page-large storm of Silver the Hedgehog doodles on User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki.
• Last month, User:Azeem1Hadzrie announced a edit war on it's userpage. By the last hour of March, it was cancelled to prevent a 3rd April Fools' Day Edit War from happening.
• Wesoree rotated his userpage upside down and changed the font to Comic Sans MS.
• Catfurball had their userpage rotated along with Wesoree leaving a mark.
• Misc Practice rotated his userpage 135 degrees.
• Lovable98158's about section was
  skewed
• Planetberaure rotated his userpage 270 degrees because he was laying down for a nap.
• The talk page of User:Azeem1Hadzrie has turned upside down.
• NotOrrio's changed the content on his user page so it stares that it's being rebuilt as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project
• Billionnine's page is now nonsense that is meme.

Serious notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

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• An keepy-uppy balloon was added to the Joke pages section.
  • It was then gone.
    • Later, it was upgraded.
      • And then it was deleted again.
        • And it was returned, but upgraded again.
• Wikipedia:Be bold was bolded yet again!
• Jimbo was blocked for (up to) one whole minute. No gods, no masters! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:2023 Wikipedia Razzies
• Milwaukee Brewers–Pittsburgh Pirates bottom of the 6th inning on August 3, 2023, an inning of a baseball game played during the 2022 MLB season.
• Fenway Park naming dispute, an effort by baseball fans to push back against corporate renaming of stadiums.
• Mobile Offshore Abortion Clinic, an experiment of what localities offshore outside state boundaries is like
• Trumpet (Video Game), a game that follows the titular character Barrington Trumpet through his journey for inner peace.

• Today's featured article is The Boring Lava Field, a volcanic field that became active 2.7 million years ago.
• Today's featured picture is a funny-looking self-portait of Richard Gerstl.

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