Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 1918

This page documents April Fools' Day 1918. Jokes about WWI and the Spanish Flu were prohibited; while some were made, the jokes got deleted, and they are not documented here.

Articles for deletion

 * Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was nominated for deletion for leaving WWI.
 * Earth was nominated for deletion as it always is.
 * The result was Explode.
 * 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution was nominated for deletion to prevent it from being passed.
 * The result was Prohibit.
 * Carolina Parakeet was nominated for deletion for being extinct.
 * Julian Calendar was nominated for deletion, as the last country to use it (Soviet Union) stopped.
 * The result was Skip 13 days.
 * Fourteen Points was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT.
 * Table was nominated for deletion because "table" is an antonym of "notable".
 * The result was Fold.
 * Radio was nominated for deletion.

Miscellany for deletion

 * Deleted articles with freaky titles
 * Connecting via telephone

Redirects for discussion

 * Wiki → Wikipedia
 * 1918 (year) → 1918

Templates for discussion

 * Infobox
 * Baseball

Requests for adminship

 * Andrew Carnegie

Requests for bureaucratship

 * ClueBot NG

Requested moves

 * Talc → Talk

Page protection requests
Requests for page protection was requested to be fully protected.

Proposed merges
North Dakota and South Dakota

Other pranks

 * On March 28, this page was rotated 60 degrees.
 * The Newspaper article was formatted like a newspaper.
 * User:Example actually made some edits.
 * On April 14, some Russian users, who thought they were still in the Julian calendar, made some pranks. They were reverted immediately.
 * A page for 2018 was created - and then deleted for being WP:TOO SOON