User talk:Moonythedwarf/AprilCleanupRfC

It's a shame to see it go
Yesterday was, as we are all aware, was hectic, filled with edits both to the heading and the page itself, and to many people, a lot of fun. Having shamefully enjoyed myself editing the page in the name of humour, I can understand why it can't happen again. These edits were technically disallowed, but people were doing it anyway and no one was stopping them. It's tremendously difficult to stop a war; sometimes things just need to cool off.

I heard about the edit war of last year. I didn't participate in it because I discovered it in May. Just reading the summary of it had me laughing.

This year was somewhat a lot worse. There were tonnes of AfD requests, at least one of which was even brought up in MfD it was that serious. There was someone on the talk page trying to stop the madness too late and ended up getting personally attacked for not appreciating fun (this is not me siding with him. He also had an attitude on him.) And from the information on the parent of this talk page, there were massive clogs to systems of Wikipedia.

I think I speak for all of us when I say "This was purely for fun and means no disrespect to Wikipedia as a platform." Personally speaking, I didn't see much vandalism on article pages which is a plus, but I can't be certain about that one.

In my opinion, if this was a serious issue, the page would have been immediately been fully protected and there would be no documentation of it like this year's or last year's page reminding people that this stuff is possible. It's hard to say for sure what the mods were actually doing. Were they avoiding conflict at all costs or were they letting us have our one day of fun a year? Once again speaking personally, I hope they don't try to intervene.

Final words. This year's edit war was fun. Trying to stop it causes even more unnecessary chaos. I wish things like this could continue without causing problems. This kind of behaviour, unacceptable or not, can only be stopped if the mods take action. Nothing is stopping people from doing this next year.

-- Diriector_Doc ┝Talk Contribs ━━━┥ 04:27, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

P.S: I know a few people won't be happy with me when I say this, but I support 1-day-a-year edit wars for purely fun and entertainment purposes. I know it's not very fun for the back-bone people of Wikipedia, but getting rid of it wouldn't be fun for the rest of us.
 * I disagree. Seeing 2000 edits to the page, some vandalism and some sheer chaos, is just a bit distressing. Fun is appreciated, but not in the form of edit wars. Honestly even I felt sorry for my participation; but edit wars like this need to be stopped. Even joke AfDs are better (minus the Covid jokes). TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 06:19, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree, it was kinda fun for the time it was going on. However, I have observed that the april fools page is not the best place for this. So, as a proposal, perhaps a page were, on one day, people can just go crazy. some basic rules are still enforced. And at the end it could be archived on the April fools page? The April Fools page should be semi protected however. Homeofthething (talk) 01:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Contribs ━━━┥ 02:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I am 100% on board with this idea, but there are still some alleged complications with that. The amount of edits Wikipedia gets on April 1 is supposedly too high to withstand, all thanks to the super fun edit war that officials dislike. When I word it like that, it sounds like I'm calling them out, but I respect their reasoning and understand why edit wars can't happen. I really want your proposal to be carried through, but I can't think it's likely. -- Diriector_Doc ┝Talk