Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2011

List of events:

Deletion requests

 * 2013 is nominated for deletion.
 * Google is nominated for deletion.
 * "Category:Proposed_deletion_as_of_1_April_2011" is nominated for deletion. (Page was deleted routinely on April 9 per that project and the link is unavailable.)
 * WP:AN gets nominated for deletion.
 * WP:AFD gets sent to MFD and AFD.
 * AFD's AFD page itself gets sent to MFD and AFD. AFD's MFD page also gets sent to MFD.
 * AFD's AFD's AFD then also gets nominated for deletion.
 * WP:RFD gets sent to WP:RFD
 * This page is proposed for deletion.
 * ...the deletion page is then also nominated for deletion.
 * ...then that page is... yep, you guessed it.
 * and nominated further...
 * which is speedied - a tag that is then deleted before the page is flagged for rescue.
 * A certain lifeguard appears at the page for rescue.
 * The page is finally killed but then shows up again, and events spiral out of control
 * The deletion log is nominated for deletion. This is why you shouldn't stuff beans up your nose.
 * Cattle is nominated for deletion
 * Earth gets nominated for deletion yet again
 * Kanye West gets nominated for deletion but he didn't let me finish
 * Soviet Union gets nominated for deletion (again)
 * Human gets nominated for deletion yet again
 * Vice President of the United States gets nominated for deletion for not being worth a pitcher of warm spit
 * An edit war was started at the Articles for deletion page
 * Technology gets nominated for deletion
 * Relevance is nominated for deletion
 * Willy on Wheels gets nominated for deletion
 * Q is nominated for deletion for being a useless letter.
 * Tautology (rhetoric) is nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Tautology (rhetoric) where it is hoped that there will be a consensus to agree to delete and remove all content from the named page, thus making it inaccessible to all but admins and those with sysop userrights.
 * WP:CSD gets tagged for speedy deletion.
 * ... and gets sent to MfD
 * Sarah Palin is nominated for deletion.
 * Request for Adminship is nominated for deletion
 * The Universe is nominated for deletion per Plato's cave.

Meta

 * Articles for deletion gets a new hatnote.
 * Don't delete this page gets discussed at deletion review.
 * An abuse filter seeks to prevent a certain April Fool's joke from being carried out, even by stewards.

Jimbo

 * Jimbo's page is messed with, like usual
 * And again.
 * He is then banned for a day.
 * The page is then redirected.
 * ...then nominated for deletion.
 * ...then he retired.
 * Jimbo Wales unregistered Reaper Eternal

Rickrolling

 * Anyone who visited Tofutwitch11's User Page or talk page got Rickrolled.
 * Rickrolling gets rickrolled.
 * This page, that you're reading right now, gets ric-...er, Babbinoed.

A hat fight

 * There was a hat fight at WT:RFA.
 * Hat 2
 * Hat removed
 * Hat back!
 * More Hats
 * Winner
 * It ain't over till it's over
 * Ugh...
 * Hat pyramid for the win

All the other stuff

 * Gfoley4's userpage disappears
 * A proposal was made to move the Wikimedia servers to Canada.
 * Ten Pound Hammer is turned into an otter.
 * Then is later turned into a Ten Pound Hummer
 * ...then upgraded into a Ten Pound Hummingbird
 * ...but then unfortunately eaten by a Ten Pound Hummingbird Eater
 * ...Afterwhich, an editor being arachnophobic, just had to kill that darn spider


 * Even obscure chemical elements were not spared. (Note: this a remake of an old – 2004? – joke.)
 * Lanthanum-138, who joked about lanthanum above, reveals that they are a sockpuppet of Willy on Wheels (moved to User:Lanthanum-138 on devices that allow heavy objects to be moved easily through rotating on an axle through its centre – see Wheel and MediaWiki:Titleblacklist)
 * List of puddles (see the deletion log – the original version was the basis of the new version for April Fools)
 * What? Vanadium was also pranked by Freywa.
 * Roentgenium and its infobox were hit by Lanthanum-138 by turning the clock back to 2003.
 * A bit TOO much enthusiasm. This happened also here.
 * Call_for_demonstration_in_the_Village_pump
 * Something appears to be wrong
 * Polyhedral families
 * Dylan620 bans himself
 * Short-lived revision of Sausage
 * Michael Jackson is Banned
 * April Fool's Day is nominated for featured article.
 * TitanOne moves User:Physics is all gnomes to User:Physics is all Dwarfs; in return she sends a large photo of her grandfather to crush his userpage.
 * User Lanthanum-138 must be handled carefully (doesn't work anymore, but the description pretty much sums it up)
 * My76Strat, Mark Wahlberg and GoogleBot request adminship.
 * Portal:U.S. Roads updates for the day with a selected article about the highway to the South Pole as well as alternate graphics and a special "On this Day" section.
 * Template:Citation needed is nominated at TFD.
 * WP:RFD gets nominated at Redirects for discussion.
 * Recursion is redirected to itself.
 * A proposal to render Wikipedia in ROT13 by default.
 * Od Mishehu creates a redirect nou1 to db-u2, since db-u1 is db-user and db-u2 is db-nouser