Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022

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Deletion nominations

Articles for deletion

Big was closed for Don't make it bigger anymore as per MOS:FONTSIZE
...and then the nomination subpage itself got blanked.
The Gettysburg Address was dropped once per WP:IDL.
The AfD only added more 🗿.
The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by five degrees.
The Planet of the Apes nomination was then rotated by 420 degrees.
It was then rotated 2001 degrees by a very angry ape.
And then 1968 degrees
And then 69 degrees
And then NEGATIVE 69 degrees.
Then it was turned upside-down by ANOTHER angry ape.
Then the apes had a change of heart.
Then the ape who had a change of heart rotated it to 270 degrees.
Then the text went back to normal while the ape got on a horse and left the building.
After a non-canonical
skew
of the text, GPT-2 summoned more bots to the discussion.
And then the nomination was itself nominated for deletion to stop the apes from taking over the Earth
Then Wikipe-tan died on the page.
Then she was brought back to life.
And then died again.
Then the angry apes came back.
Then the nomination was ceremoniously rotated 100000 degrees
Then the text was
skewed
again, but by 260 degrees.
As a result of such acts of vandalism on the page, a request for comment was started to prevent it in the future.
After a few reversions of the skewed text, the picture of the ape was replaced with SMPTE color bars to put the chaos to temporary rest.
The color bars were replaced by a different ape. Links on the page to Planet of the Apes also turned red around this time.
Then the ape started spinning.
Then it blew up.
The Angry Apes have returned!
And then the apes from 2001 took over.
Then EA Sports took over the WHOLE page
Then it was rotated by 2001 degrees
Not long after that, both the ape from 2001 AND the 5 hour energy people spun very fast.
And then the 2001 apes had enough of the spinning.
And then an angry child got angry for editing his page, subsequently reviving the gorilla
The Angry apes finally listened
Then something sussy appeared, making the angry apes more angry.
The result was muted for triggering the Discord bots.
"Normal" on this was liked to Speed Racer
The link then later changed to Running in the 90s
Then it was changed to Bicycle Race
The nominator accidentally summoned the Tokiponist cabal.

Categories for discussion

Files for discussion

Miscellany for deletion

Let's be less original.AssumeGoodWraith (talk | contribs)
...A reason so random, it probably is true.

Redirects for discussion

Templates for discussion

This was later nominated for deletion.
And that deletion nomination was nominated for deletion.

Users for deletion

Other requests

Requests for adminship

Requests for bureaucratship

Requested moves

Featured article candidates

Featured picture candidates

In the News nominations

Project proposals

User page pranks

Other pranks

Notice: Do not rename this section without consensus. Per consensus on joke vandalism, this section's name is fixed, as some people cannot handle the responsibility. There will not be a 3rd April Fools Day edit war.

  • Wikipedia:BOLD was bolded again.
  • WP:HAT was hatted.
  • WP:ITALICTITLE was italicised for the first time ever.
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/April Fools' Day 2022 broke to the point that some nominations only showed up as blank bullet lists. Even the {{humor}} tags were bereft of text.
    This was due to an unclosed <div> tag on the page Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Small.
    Later this happened again due to an unclosed <div> tag on the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/727, but instead it tilted the text by 727 degrees, ending at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wordle due to it having a </div> tag there.
  • WP:UNDERLINE was underlined.
  • Jimbo got replaced with a giant sea creature.
  • A (slightly dated) spoken version of ANI was released
  • On Wikipedia:April Fools, the links for this page and the page for the previous year's Fools Day were mysteriously swapped.
  • The link below that presumably links to "Wikipedia:April_Fools/April_Fools'_Day_2022/Example" was changed to link to a Rick Roll.
    And then it was changed to a Duck Roll
    And then to a "fake Rick Roll"
    And then to a clip of The Loud Librarian.
    Then it went back to a rickroll
    It was still a rickroll, but then the words are in alphabetical order.
    Then it was a Reddit link about a dumb student named Kevin.
    Then it got changed to “Macaroni with the Chicken Strips”
    Then it was a Reddit link about April Fools' Day jokes.
    Then it was a dead YouTube link, despite trying to post Cocomelon memes.
    Then it went back to the Reddit link about April Fools Jokes
    Then it went to Cocomelon memes, successfully this time!
    Then it transformed to Deal-tastic Me!
    It then became a 2 second clip of mmmmm... Monke.
    Then it became Curious George in a Nutshell
    Then it went back to a Reddit link about April Fools Jokes, again! But this time it was a different one.
    Then it got turned into a Tank War (Tank Man
    Then it became a clip of Bionic Max
    Then it went back to a reddit link, this time, asking about Terrifying Wikipedia pages. Oh joy!!!
    Then it became a piano dub of Burger King Foot Lettuce
    Then it was an Imdb link that the editor himself decided was too far and reverted it themselves.
    Then it went back to a Reddit link about April Fools Jokes, this time about the worst pranks!
    Then it was rickrolled again, have we been taking Rickroll too far?
    Then it went to a Reddit link about interesting Wikipedia articles.
    The Example was rebranded into Generic Acid
  • Wikipedia:Rules for Fools was put into Dark Mode
    then turned upside down
    then all the Es [sic] got removed
    then it got "fixed up"
    sysop didnt like the joke :(
    then it got fixed :) and if the mod un flips it its a edit war :)
    However, the page remained flipped.
    The page was fixed again.

Joke pages

These will be a subpage of the page you are on right now, such as Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/Generic acid, as they would be deleted as a hoax anywhere else.

(Serious) articles about silly topics written or improved

See Wikipedia:Unusual articles for inspiration.

Oh boy, here we go again Lovable98158 01:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

The main page participated again in the April fools. The featured article for this day is Coropuna, documenting a dormant volcano in the Andes. The featured picture shows Hippos from Chobe National Park in Botswana. DYK once again served an assortment of humorous entries. The featured place is Columbia, South Carolina. The random article of the day is Hungry ghost.

Other serious stuff

XFD poll

Click here to vote your favorite XFD nomination. Closes on 4 April 2022 00:00 UTC. You only get to vote once, so choose wisely.

References