Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022

Encouraging productive behavior with a new section
I decided to be bold and add a section for “(Serious) articles about silly topics written or improved.” April Fool's Day has become increasingly competitive of late, and this could be a good opportunity to funnel some of that competitive silliness into actually productive behavior. If you think this unilateral decision is out of line or will backfire catastrophically, please feel free to remove the section and leave a trout. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 22:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Great idea! I don't see anything objectionable to this—it'll certainly be worthwhile learning something new by digging into rabbitholes and niches for quirky articles. N rco0e   (talk · contribs)   06:24, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Objection! Panini!  • 🥪 23:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

AfD poll
Last year, there was a poll to vote on the best April Fools' deletion nomination. Does anyone want to do it again this year?


 * YES!!!! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 (talk) 14:22, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * *turns into a gal* Sure then!~ Xinghua  (she/her) •  Talk  15:20, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I conducted the poll last year and would love to do it again. But unfortunately, I won't be available to make the poll at the end of AFD. If we decide to do one every year, I'd be happy to lend my assistance, but my unavailability came at a bad time. Would someone else volunteer to do it this year? -- Diriector_Doc ├─────┤Talk Contribs  16:58, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes. Talking Ben (ʞꞁɐʇ &#8226; sqᴉɹʇuoɔ) 20:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes :D Avi :D (talk) 22:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure. Panini!  • 🥪 23:29, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep. I mean, Why not? 172.112.210.32 (talk) 23:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Of course. Keep it going ― Kaleeb18TalkCaleb 15:50, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure. but only if mine gets a win. &#8211; JJP &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 21:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Heed this warning
Wikipedia talk:April Fools

Please refrain as much as possible from making jokes (and more importantly, attacks) on current Russian/Ukrainian events. Piggybacking on this content for a couple of laughs is very shallow and will most likely be shunned by other editors. Nominating Ever Given is funny because nothing bad or controversial happened; nominating Vladmir Putin is not. Panini! • 🥪 23:51, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Seconding this warning, which I consider to be in-line with our previously established ban on COVID-19 jokes. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:16, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

MARQUEE WOOO
Hello! I wasn't sure where to put this, or how to do this, without making people grumpy. So I just put it in the talk page. Have fun everybody!76.192.106.160 (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Dang it that didn't work76.192.106.160 (talk) 13:48, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Edit warring
sigh. Someone creates jokes that feed the trolls, adds them to this page, they're removed, and the same person restores them. I'm not a huge fan of this stuff in general, so will just leave it here for others to decide if anyone can force their pet jokes through. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 16:56, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Adding to the page
Are we allowed to add our own ‘pranks’ to the page? Or pranks we saw done to someone? ― Kaleeb18TalkCaleb 17:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yep, you can add your own pranks. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 19:37, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Where's the spoken ANI?
Under 'Other pranks', it states that there was a spoken version of ANI, but I can't find it; is there a link to it? I'm absolutely horrified at the idea of I would love to listen to heated ANI debates on my commute. Sunmist (talk) 21:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC)


 * @Sunmist, scroll to the middle of the table of contents at ANI and look on the right. Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 21:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I need better glasses. s̶̲̉̎̒͠ȩ̸̢͇͚͇̊͂͜ǹ̸̨̛̰̬̭̰̘͓̟̆̈̎̊̈̌̅d̷͈̆̍̇̑ ̶̝̪͇̘̹͖͎̎̅̀̃͗h̴͉̊̉̍ͅe̵̠͇͙͓̒l̵̺̀̀̽͠p̷̛̩̭̺̼̙̲̜̓̑̂̑̊͝ Thank you! Sunmist (talk) 21:11, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/AssumeGoodSecurity hasn't been closed for a month
This joke RFA was supposed to be closed on April 8.

It's, uhh, been about a month since the listed close date.

Needless to say personally it's not too pleasing to see unclosed discussions way past their normal close date. I'd close it myself but I don't know anything regarding RfAs (other than the fact they exist) so there's that. 172.112.210.32 (talk) 01:13, 6 May 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ NotReallySoroka (talk) 06:21, 23 May 2022 (UTC)