Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2015#General Tomfoolery
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List of events:
Nominations for deletion
= [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015_April_1#April_Fool.27s nominations|Articles]] =
- Barack Obama was recommended for deletion by a letter signed by 47 Republican members of Congress. {{April Fools}}
- Delete was RfDed by Bobherry because it has to delete it in its name and was warned by Nakon.
- Internet Explorer was nominated for deletion.
- Internet was nominated for deletion for a COI.
- B was nominated for deletion for being a ripoff of the letter A.
- The Avengers (2012 film) was nominated for deletion since Batman said so!
- The Dark Knight Rises was nominated for deletion since the Avengers said so!
- The Daily Show was nominated for deletion for not being daily.
- List of planets courageously saved by The Doctor was snowballed for deletion successfully by the cabal as an obvious neutral point of view policy violation.
- Wikipedia community was AfDed by Bobherry for a possible COI for the 3rd time.
- WXYZ-TV was nominated for deletion because of its call letters.
- Radium was nominated for deletion because someone hates radioactivity.
- Radiation was nominated for deletion because of it being a massive health hazard.
- Blurred Lines was nominated for deletion because of WP:COPYVIO concerns.
- Earworm was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DuckTales#Merger_proposal| nominated to merge] with DuckTales
- Bird is nominated for deletion for being a duplicate of the article word.
- Sonic the Hedgehog is nominated for deletion.
- Wikipedia was nominated for deletion (for the seventh time).
- Ghost is nominated for deletion.
- God is nominated for deletion for a probable hoax.
- Triangle is nominated for deletion due to Illuminati confirmation.
= [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_1#April_1|Templates]]=
- Template:Citation needed is nominated for deletion
- {{U|WikiLeon}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_1&diff=654526361&oldid=654514069 nominated] Template:Wikipedia for being a huge self reference.
= [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_1#April_1|Categories]]=
- :Category:Recursion is nominated for merging with :Category:Recursion
- :Category:Hidden categories was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_1&diff=654498754&oldid=654470169 nominated for deletion] for creating infinite loops between categories, in which itself and its subcategories ("container" and "tracking") are categorized under it.
= Project pages =
:*Since moved to userspace.
= Special pages =
- WP:Rules for Fools is nominated for deletion. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Rules_for_Fools&oldid=654422991 diff])
- Which is then nominated for deletion.
- And so on
- and so forth
- forever and ever... (twice!)
- The second of which is then proposed for deletion.
- And then all of the deletion discussions are sadly deleted.
- Special:UserLogout is nominated for deletion on the basis that no one should ever log out.
- Stub was nominated for deletion by Bobherry for being a HUGE STUB!
- WP:Administrator Intervention against Vandalism was nominated for deletion per WP:BURO by -G.A.WILMBROKE [ USER / ALT / TALK / CONTRIBS ]
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not is nominated for deletion on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a list of things that Wikipedia is not.
- The Manual of Style is nominated for deletion for being a manual.
- WP:HAMMER is nominated for violating WP:HAMMER because no one knows User:TenPoundHammer's real name.
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia is nominated for deletion by User:Twozenhauer as it is a hoax.
= User pages =
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=654444843 Jimbo's user page] is messed with again
- TenPoundHammer's userpage is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:TenPoundHammer&diff=prev&oldid=654444451 turned upside-down, and the lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are added as an HTML comment.]
- ToonLucas22's userpage is blanked and denied access.
Other nominations
- User:Duck is accused of sock puppetry per WP:DUCK.
General Tomfoolery
- User:Coffee changed his signature to impersonate Jimmy Wales
- ....And then General Custer
- User:Wgolf votes Feldkahl to be the article of the day!
- Someone decided that {{plainlink|url=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=654428088#Edit_summaries_in_all_caps edit summaries should all in capitals}}
- Upside-down cake is turned [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upside-down_cake&oldid=654442308 right-side up].
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters was [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters&oldid=654484954 converted to big capital letters] and all full stops were converted to two exclamation points to constitute shouting.
- User:Daniel Case [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lavrentiy_Beria&diff=prev&oldid=654487608 converted] Lavrenti Beria to a redirect to Bering Sea, as per the Great Soviet Wikipedia.
- Edible Book Festival seems to be an elaborate ruse. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_Book_Festival].
- User:Alphius took the first step toward adding a new level of bureaucracy to the article deletion process. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_articles_for_deletion&oldid=654547446 diff])
- Which is then nominated to be nominated for deletion because Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_articles_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Articles_for_articles_for_deletion&oldid=654560406 diff])
- And then the same page is seriously nominated for speedy deletion after the day ended.
- Then the speedy deletion is declined and the page is moved to userpace instead.
- This section was renamed from "General tomfoolery" to "General jerryfoolery" as a Tom & Jerry pun.
- This sentence's article was deleted.
- Template:humor was changed to be a faux CSD template. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Humor&oldid=654584189 diff])
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