User:ReaderofthePack/April Fool's Day nominations

If you're reading this, then it's probably April Fool's Day and you're thinking about making a joke deletion nomination. Before you do this, keep the following things in mind:


 * Do not nominate things for speedy or proposed deletion. This puts a tag on the article itself, which adds it to the speedy and proposed deletion lists. This list can't be filtered like the AfD lists can, so it makes it hard for admins to determine what pages are legit and which aren't. It also takes time to remove these tags. As such this is not going to be seen as funny, just disruptive.


 * If you nominate an article for AfD, make sure that you don't add the actual AfD tag to the live article. While we can separate the joke nominations from the legit ones on the list of the day's AfD nominations, removing the template from the article will still take time. On this note, make sure that you removed the tag from the nomination page if you use the AfD nomination page template, as this will help prevent the tags from being added to the live article by a bot.


 * Finally, make sure that you're respectful in the nominations. Keep in mind that some nominations may be seen as tasteless, especially depending on how you write the nomination.