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Let the jokes begin!

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

• What's the point in keeping our article on Adley Rutschman if he pointlessly grew his hair out this past season?
• Among Us was nominated for deletion for the third consecutive year per WP:SUS.
• Animutation was nominated for deletion because they are too fun to watch, can cause brain injuries and brainwash victims.
• Apollo 11 was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
• April Fools’ Day was nominated for deletion for false statements on this page.
• {{April Fools AfD Reasoning|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME|reason={{{2}}}}}
• 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.
• Art gallery was nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOTREPOSITORY and WP:GALLERY rules
• 𰻝𰻝面 was nominated for deletion for having way too much detail for no reason.
• Bielefeld was nominated for deletion for not existing.
• BFDI was nominated for deletion for being too violent and very much banned.

• Black and white was nominated for deletion in favor of cycling colors.
• Bluey (2018 TV series) was nominated for deletion per WP:BLUE and creating confusion with another famous blue dog.
• 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!
• Bones (Imagine Dragons song) was nominated for deletion to question its entertainment factor.
• Brazil was nominated for deletion for being too scary to visit like Ohio.
• Chainsaw Man was nominated for deletion because Bocchi the Rock! is better.
• Care was nominated for deletion.
• ChatGPT nominated itself for deletion.
• 漢字 (漢字(かんじ), 漢字(한자), 漢字(hànzì)) was nominated for deletion for being too difficult to write
  • Chinese characters was nominated for deletion six minutes later
• 2023 Chicago mayoral election was nominated for deletion for having two equally no-good runoff candidates.
• Someone got mad at Combinatorial game theory because they moved second in a game with value ${\displaystyle *}$.
• LazarBeam got yeeted by some Wikipedian.
• Comment got commented out. Go to edit source to read what it says.
• 🦀 Crab 🦀 Rave 🦀 is 🦀 gone! 🦀
• Cursor (user interface) was nominated for deletion for being so pointy that it can't even render
• David was nominated for deletion because it is biblically accurate that he said "aw seriously" (rip headphone users)
• Depths of Wikipedia was out of the depths for a while now and was nominated for deletion for being inaccurate.
• Dream (YouTuber) was nominated for deletion for being caught cheating.
• Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez were nominated for deletion for being the same person.
• Duolingo was nominated for deletion for aiding and abetting a systematic oppression and harassment of users who missed a streak on any language courses. Call Menchetti and Sons to learn more.
• Dysarthria wash nominayted for deleeshion.
• Earth was nominated for deletion for the 18th time. One day it will be successful.
• Fandom was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTFANDOM.
• Field of Corn was nominated for deletion because for the fact that we can't eat concrete corn, and it's yucky.
• Filli Vanilli was nominated for deletion because Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy cry twice in this episode.
• Forgery was nominated for deletion for forging User:Melecie's signature ( melecie  talk) and could be committing a crime.
• Fox was nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior wolves.
• FTX is nominated for deletion for being responsible for crashing the crypto market in November 2022

• Stupid Goddess of Victory: Nikke game made me poor
• Good faith was nominated for deletion per WP:ABF.
• Harambe was deemed a dead meme.
• HTML is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
• Hyperlink was nominated for deletion for being invasive as heck.
• Ice cream was nominated for deletion for illegally transmitting the unthinkable to the world.
• IDLE's nomination for deletion was imported.
• 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.
  • Interstate 45 was nominated for deletion in particular because of these house-destroying maniacs trying to widen a freeway in Houston.

• The Illuminati was nominated for deletion for (Redacted) and WP:POINTY.
•  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.
• 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.
• Italic type was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
• Jane Byrne Interchange was nominated for deletion for failing to solve congestion, plus the fact that Illinois is becoming Texas (that's disgusting).
• Kerning and Keming were nominated for nominated for deletion (rn and m) for social distancing in 2023 and overcrowding respectively.
• Kyrie Irving was nominated for deletion per WP:NONAZIS.
• Kanye West was nominated for deletion per WP:No Nazis.
• Lake Shore Drive was nominated for deletion for being a barrier on Chicago's lakefront; this is merely an expressway on the lakefront without trucks (mostly).
• Line height was nominated for deletion for being unnecessary.
• Limon, Colorado was nominated for deletion for "LIMON!!!"
• LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!
• 99 Luftballons was nominated for deletion under orders from the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union to shoot down 99 Keepy Uppy Balloons.
• Matthew Guy was nominated for deletion because he tried to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
• Stop doing Mathematics
• Mayor of New York was nominated because I run New York!
• 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

• Nature was nominated for deletion.
• Never Gonna Give You Up was disallowed by an edit filter.
• Note was nominated for deletion on grounds of failing WP:N.
• Nupedia was nominated for deletion for being a free encyclopedia that no one can edit.
• 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.
• Old English was nominated for deletion on the basis that the language is simply an elaborate prank.
• Patrick's Parabox was nominated for deletion with an AfD that contains itself. Fortunately it only goes one layer deep.
• Pessimism was nominated for deletion.^{[citation needed]}
• Physics was nominated for deletion with a tilted look.
• r/place was to be whited out.
• Plagiarism was nominated for deletion per WP:PLAGIARISM and WP:COPYVIO. Wow, people were way ahead of this nomination. Wait a minute.
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are nominated for deletion for ḃḕḯɦĝ а̄ Бчḡḡλ ΜεṤṤ
• Power was nominated for deletion per Bang.
• Procrastination will be nominated for deletion eventually.
• Rules were nominated for deletion per Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.
• 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.
• Social media was nominated for deletion for violation of WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK no matter how addictive it gets.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (character) was nominated for deletion because he is dead. The AFD held a funeral for him.
• South Korea was nominated for deletion because they invented K-pop and eat penis fish
• Soviet Union was nominated for deletion for trying to block Wikipedia when Wikipedia blocks trolls like Stalin.
• Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so AfD'd so that nobody would expect it.
• Spherical Earth was nominated for deletion because the world is flat and there are turtles all the way down.
• 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.
  • By the way, if you look at the top right corner of the AfD log or top left of the Splatoon section, you have the ability to spawn circles made by inklings and octolings.
• 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).
• Strikethrough was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.

• Tetris and Tetris (film) were nominated for deletion due to low confidence of the nominator, especially given the fact that Super Mario Bros. (film) is an utter failure.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie was nominated for deletion because the nominator wanted the Sonic movies to be superior.
• TikTok was nominated for deletion.
• Timeline of the far future was nominated for deletion for WP:BALL.
• Traffic congestion was nominated for deletion for being too hard to alleviate because of induced demand.
• Traffic light was nominated for deletion for accessibility reasons (particularly color). Go to Tipperary Hill in Syracuse and you will soon find out why.
• To the Moon was nominated for deletion for being cryptocurrency propaganda.
• Trout was whacked with a WP:TROUT.
• Ty Gibbs was nominated for deletion for being a nepo baby.
• Underline was nominated for deletion for being unsightly and unlegible.
• Vertical writing was nominated for deletion because I am disoriented. This is out of balance.
• Weasel was nominated for deletion per MOS:WEASEL.
• Wolf was also nominated for deletion for being too redundant to the superior foxes.
• Wikilink is nominated for deletion to the point of becoming plain text. I hope you know how to read that, right?
• Whopper was nominated for deletion for being closer to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than Burger King.
• Wittenoom, Western Australia is nominated for deletion for being contaminated with asbestos.
• World Baseball Classic was nominated for deletion because people got hurt.

• Category:Wikipedia policies was nominated per WP:IAR

• index.php was nominated for deletion.
• robots.txt was nominated for deletion.
• 503.html was nominated for deletion for being old and redundant.

• Special:ProtectPage was nominated for deletion per WP:OWN.
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was nominated for deletion because it had way too many problems in NotOrrio's eyes
• 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.
• All Earth AfDs (apart from the first) were nominated for deletion for being unfunny, as stated in its first AfD.
• ANI was nominated for deletion because it serves no other purpose but to create drama.
• Wikipedia:Be bold was nominated for deletion for being a bad example of being bold.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion was nominated for deletion, oh wait it's actually impossible to tell.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (19th nomination) was nominated for deletion due to recursion.
• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library was nominated for deletion via a sting operation for containing predators

• {{citation needed}} was nominated because: ^{[citation needed]}.

• User:ARandomPage was nominated for deletion to prevent them from deleting Wikipedia's Main Page.
• User:Awesome Aasim was nominated for deletion for undisclosed reasons.
• User:AmandaNP was nominated for deletion for creating the date "April 1".
• User:Jimbo Wales was nominated for explosion.
• User:Melecie failed the Pokémon Test and was to be deleted.
• User:PrincessPandaWiki was nominated for deletion for WP:MONARCH.

• 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.

• The discussion has been speedily closed due to time constraint surrounding April Fools.

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

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Belford railway station, New South Wales
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gerbilling

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.

• Is → Was, to avoid inevitable edit wars over changing "is" to "was"
• The moment Walter White → Werner Heisenberg
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/Patrick Kane: We don't need Connor Bedard anymore; we need Patrick Kane!
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Requested moves/All pages: Willy on Wheels tries a different approach.
• Make ANI the new Main Page!

• 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.

• A request was made for images of living things to be sized respective to the subject's fatness.
• A request was made to improve the legibility of Legibility.

• 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
  • The spinning texts were "AMOGUS ඞ".
    • It only lasted for 10 minutes
• 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.

• Was turned upside down.

• Then he reverted it.

• Blaze Wolf had his userpage fox-ified
• Are you sure you did not flip Aasim's talk page?
• Cyberpower678's talk page decided to do a barrel roll.
• Disoneiscool8745's userpage has been turned blue (da bu dee da bu da)
  • The user's spinning text has been slowered 6000 times.
    • Then it got reverted.
• Taking Out The Trash generated some trash for them to take out.
• Jimbo's user page and talk page are goofed up again.
  • A big spinning "April Fools!" was added.
• Fatal error in 3PPYB6.exe: semicolon expected in line 18,229 (of 67,558 lines).
• User:Shadow of the Starlit Sky's userpage now redirects to Never Gonna Give You Up.
• User:TILRs posted so many wombats on this page, so their userpage was smashed by the almighty whale as a result.
• User:BrownHairedGirl was given some brown hair by  – CityUrbanism 🗩 🖉.
• User:多多123 was rotated 100 degrees [1].
• The Guhua geek made his user page spin at about 2,400 revolutions per minute.
  • However had a vertigo on his own so the spin was gone.
• Illusion Flame’s user page caught on fire!! Bring some 🧯.
• User:AlphaBeta135 cannot be touched as an avid April Fools AfD nominator!

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.
          • It was downgraded.
            • It was exploded.
              • It was turned into a icosahedron.
                • Remember people, no edit wars
                  • The Keepy Uppy balloon had help with its return.

• The Keepy Uppy balloon served well and was moved to its permanent home.
  • Then the wombat was revived, then died.
    • A tribute to the Keepy Uppy Balloon was put at the bottom of this page.
      • The tribute was deleted
        • After the roadkill was cleared, the tribute respawned again, and was deleted again.
          • The Keepy Uppy balloon was revived :P using {{Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Keepy Uppy Balloon bottom right corner}}.
            • The Keepy Uppy balloon decided to have a hot new gradient.
              • Yes, even in the bottom right corner.
                • Then it was decided for the wombats and the Keepy Uppy Balloon to have a rap battle. At the last second though, the Keepy Uppy Balloon was popped yet again and an angry ape came in its place.
                  • The sacred wombats became the scared wombats and ran away soon afterward, meaning the ape has won the rap battle.

• Then the mini Keepy Uppy Balloon started flying away.

• Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded yet again!

• WP:BOLD was bolded 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]
• Jimbo was reported as a vandalism-only account.
• The sandbox was filled with sand.
  • It lasted less than a minute.
    • It then became an actual sandbox.
• Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates was tilted just enough to be annoying. Also Wikipedia:Village pump.
• Some maintenance tags were added to Wikipedia:Tag bombing
• The section's text mentions the 3rd Great Edit War.
  • Later, the section's text font was changed to a fancy style.
    • It returned to normal, but it's upside down.
      • Then the upside-down effect disappeared.
        • The text was changed to "Other tomfoolery", then it was reverted later.
• WP:Humor, the talk page, and User:Operator873 were redirected to Never Gonna Give You Up with mysterious edit summaries
  • However, the user page's rickroll virus was reverted

• 
  Wikipedia is ruled by The Sacred Wombats.
• 
  Thou shalt not pop the sacred Keepy Uppy Balloon.

• 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.
• The Keepy Uppy Balloon, a special place for the keepy uppy balloon.
  • At one point, some sacred wombats decided to add more balloons, they were all exterminated.
    • Someone tried to pop the balloon, but the balloon was not popped.
• I'm Blue, a page with a spinning text that says "I'm Blue".
  • We're Spinning Rainbows, a modified page with two spinning texts that say "I'm a Spinning Rainbow".
• Help:Buying Wikipedia! Now with a hint of lore!
• A recreation of Wikipedia's "REDmessage" is released
• Chemists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Periodic Table of Wikipedia!
• Linguists! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/The Wikipedia Alphabet!
• Roadgeeks! I have officially made Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices!
• Stolen joke from Template:Whale: Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Wales in case it disappears
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2103
  • Nineteen years later (Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2122)
• Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, the sad truth about a man only known because of Shohei Ohtani.
• Sacred Wombats' Temple
• Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/No Deadline based on "Revolution 9"
• Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2023/Procrastination will be filled in later.

• Today's featured article is The Boring Lava Field, a volcanic field that became active 2.7 million years ago.
• Today's Picture of the day is the detail of the head of a Blue-footed booby in the Galapagos Islands.
• The featured picture is a funny-looking self-portait of Richard Gerstl.
• The featured place is the University of Minnesota.

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whopper was tagged with {{copyvio-revdel}} because the quoted song lyrics likely violated copyright policies.

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