Wikipedia talk:April Fools/Archive 1

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As part of the deconstruction of WP:BJAODN, I have removed the April Fools items from the BJAODN page. They can still be found here. Shalom Hello 01:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll put money on this page being WP:MfD'd real soon, seems anything which doesn't contribute to Wikipedia is being nuked. --tgheretford (talk) 10:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

April 1 2010 suggestions
As an early suggestion (or for any other context where it could be appropriately involved) - a link to Egging involving omelettes, eggheads and similar. Jackiespeel (talk) 17:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

And 'Wikiwhacks' (orphaned articles) - based on Googlewhack. Jackiespeel (talk) 22:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions for 2011

 * Nominate Grawp for adminship and bureaucratship*
 * Nominate Bambifan101 for adminship and bureaucratship*
 * Move the main page to "HAGGER?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"* — Preceding unsigned comment added by Access Denied (talk • contribs) 16:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but you can't move the main page, even if you're an admin. Check for yourself if you want. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 03:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, admins can move the Main Page, but they'd first have to modify the text at MediaWiki:Mainpage. Graham 87 15:27, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I meant in the conventional, well-known way... Lanthanum-138 (talk) 12:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Make HTTP 404 show up as an actual 404 page.*
 * Additionally make HTTP_403 show up as an actual 403 page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacnoc (talk • contribs) 06:19, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I have a pretty darn good suggestion for April Fools Day this year, how about when you click on the main page button (the logo), instead of going to the main page, the whole page turn upside down! I think upside-down jokes are funny.* --Codyrox (talk) 04:26, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Accidentally''' Disable account creation globally?* Thomas888b (Say Hi) 20:19, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Secret chemical plans by me (classified - will be declassified on April 1) ;-) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 03:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I can't wait much longer. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 16:01, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello! Why am I one of the only ones pranking? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 12:04, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Note: asterisked suggestions were not adopted this year (in 2011), but may be in 2012 (we don't have much time to waste!) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 05:44, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions for leaving out 2011
Considering the terrible tragedies at New Zealand and Japan, I suggest that we should leave out 2011 as a mark of respect. What do you think? --Marianian(talk) 18:06, 13 March 2011 (UTC)


 * That's a terrible idea. Natural disasters happen all the time. Graham 87 01:04, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for 2012
Theinhko was a king who was killed by a farmer for the crime of stealing a cucumber from the farmer. The farmer then became king and was known as The Cucumber King. Dismas |(talk) 23:21, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:April fools/April Fools' Day 2012
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:April fools/April Fools' Day 2012. – Lionel (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)– Lionel (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

April fools 2013
ok, guys, let's plan this one out 2 months ahead. they will never see it coming. let's skip AFD on jimbo, that's gettin old... let's get creative.... Aunva6 (talk) 06:50, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose - how will the pranks be funny if they're already planned out in public? If you feel the need to conspire, do it in secret! ;) Kayau (talk · contribs) 10:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Montreal micro-climate
Hi. Should joke stub article Montreal micro-climate be saved in some way before deletion? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Boldly moved to User:Benoit Gonneville Damme/Montreal micro-climate (April Fools 2014). davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  21:29, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah. I'll try to remember that for next year, thanks. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:31, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

April 2015 suggestions
Chicken Dinner (candy bar) is a famous candy bar with a misleading name, so I think it might make an interesting DYK for April Fool's day. It's chocolate and caramel and nuts (no chicken involved), and it spawned a whole bunch of similarly named Depression-era candy bars. See TIME magazine claiming it to be the first candy bar marketed as being nutritious; see this source on one of its marketing techniques. It gets at least a namecheck in every book that talks about the history of candy bars. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Merge Rules for Fools and April 1 guidelines into this
This is not a joke. I think it would be good to merge these pages as it may help to eliminate any confusion about the rules. In particular, the two pages in the topic have almost opposite rules. Of course one of them is meant as a joke in itself, but I think april fools rules are one area where we should definitely be as clear as we can be, and not make any jokes. CodeCat (talk) 19:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Proposed distillation -
 * Rule 1, Hands off article space and procedural issues that cite article space.
 * Rule 2, Otherwise, lighten up. Someone else might think it's funny.
 * Rule 3, Joke authors, apologize as needed
 * Rule 4, Repeat from top.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:18, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * This nomination is only for merging the articles, not about their contents. CodeCat (talk) 19:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I fully support merging everything other than the contents of these articles!  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Jokes may be acceptable. meta jokes that make it difficult to understand if jokes are acceptable or not - are not acceptable. support redirect/merge/delete of the joke page for coherence sake. Gaijin42 (talk) 21:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:April_1_guidelines&diff=prev&oldid=602309532 This edit] (19:39, 1 April 2014) which added humor to the "fake" rules solved the problem as far as I'm concerned. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  21:22, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't merge them. It is a essay or humor page, and most of the others keep there own page.  And as above, anything looking wrong was pretty much **fixed** by that tag.   —Mysterytrey 00:58, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * What about Rules for Fools though? That could easily go here. CodeCat (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Put the distilled version in WP:April Fools, but leave the actual WP:Rules for fools and any other guidelines for on-wiki humor on their own namespaces because, while they're dealing with jokes, they're not jokes in their own right. I'm not sure, but it might be a good idea to put them into the BJAODN template. Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 04:25, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The destilled version being one my few earnest remarks in all this, I am opposed to adding it to the joke page under the "humorous" label. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 05:40, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * What I mean is that we should put it in a separate section at the top where it's clear that it's not the humorous section (Maybe put it in a box that says something along the lines of "This quick reference list is for informational purposes, please take it seriously (even when the subject matter it deals with is not)"?). That way, it's a tl;dr of Rules for Fools that can be looked at quickly while on the page that it directly affects. Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 14:10, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I could say I agree with confidence if I saw a mock up, but if I understood you correctly, that is probably a good idea. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:11, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * How's this look? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 15:24, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for doing that; however I think it would be even more confusing to put serious text on the joke page, instead of just flagging the joke page as humor and leaving a straight-up link to the official non-joke guideline.  But I could get behind adding this as TL-DR to the serious page. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:21, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

April 1 guidelines is confusing because, despite the humor tag, and perhaps aided by the title, it appears to be the actual rules—especially if the reader doesn't know that Rules for Fools (WP:FOOLS) exists. I think the clearest way to avoid this without it being mistaken for a joke would be to include an explicit mention of and link to WP:FOOLS in the introduction to the former, along the following lines: Perhaps with the addition of a hatnote: —sroc &#x1F4AC; 13:03, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * (A year later) I've added a hatnote to April 1 guidelines and used humorantipolicy. Hopefully that will clear up confusion. I will also remove the merge tags because it's been proposed for over a year now without a solid consensus. (Replace them if you want to revive discussion.) Mz7 (talk) 21:21, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Is it time?
Is it April Fools' Day yet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by YudsWiki2003 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Idea for 2018?
Pretend that the WMF has been acquired by Mozilla, and add a reference to the "about:mozilla" Easter egg in Special:Version. lo prenu .katmakrofan. (talk) 18:47, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

April Fools 2019 idea
Redirect WP:Draft sacrificial altar to MFD. Kamafa Delgato (Lojbanist)Styrofoam is not made from kittens. 16:27, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Prank template (shhhh!)
I made a prank template!

Here it is:

And in case you were wondering, here is the admin version:

The markup is  for the normal one and   for the admin version. Let's pay a visit to Fools R Us! –  Ben 79487  02:47, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Is this supposed to go in an editnotice? Qzekrom 💬 theythem 21:10, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

The edit war
I decided we should document it on a different page so we can see the other pranks. April Fools/April Fools Day 2019/The long section of the article that people keep edit warring over. One Blue Hat  ❯❯❯ (talk)   22:16, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

April Fools Day RFC
There is currently an ongoing RFC about keeping April Fools day activities from getting out-of-hand, with a particular focus on the so-called Great April Fools Day Edit War. If anyone has any thoughts or comments, they would be greatly appreciated. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 03:30, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

RfC about edit warring and vandalism on the yearly April Fools page
I created a RfC on the Rules for Fools talk page for the edit warring and vandalism that has been occuring on the individual yearly April Fools documentation pages since 2017 and have gotten way too out of hand in the past two years. 107.77.173.61 (talk) 10:11, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

afd form
So the page rules for fools says that there is supposed to be a form for joke afds on this page, but I don't see one. Time's running out for my april fools nomination! please respond Ghinga7 (talk) 23:11, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 1 April 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved, April fools is over. I won the GAFDEW II!! (PorkchopGMX) (t - c) 02:39, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:April Fools → Birthday of Otto von Bismarck – 1 April is the birthday of Otto von Bismarck, a better thing to celebrate than social experiments gone wrong. 73.168.5.183 (talk) 06:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

This is an April Fools prank, isn’t it? Ma nam is geoffrey (talk) (talk) 11:27, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, because this is just humour, it’s pointless to argue against it, but I think I might as well. For one, it is extremely unnecessary. Also, why Otto von Bismarck and not Sophie Germain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ma nam is geoffrey (talk • contribs) 11:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Sure, just as long as it doesn’t start a move war it’s fine by me. – Toxi  Boi!  (public) 17:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Support – Aνδρέας talk&#124;contributions 18:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Template-protected edit request on 15 February 2021
Please add a notice saying

The reason being this is true and applies to all April Fools pages, not just some of them. Last time there was a lot of vandalism to the page as that was not made clear. Aasim (talk) 03:23, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * it has begun... 20:50, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Does
the blanket ban on mainspace talk pages also disallow joke move requests? JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 17:15, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Here we go...
Casspedia ( talk )  00:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Ukraine war
Notice for April Fools 2022: Pages relating to the situation in Ukraine should not be used as April Fools Day franks. Thingofme (talk) 13:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I do approve on the suggestion to prevent any inflammatory behaviour on fellow Wikipedians in this coming April 1. Also, provoking attacks at any Ukrainian [Wikipedian] may lead to a block or a ban, we should not do below-the-line and dark jokes here. Xingqiu  •  Talk  01:20, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Self-logging jokes
I don't recall, but is there an official consensus regarding logging your own April Fools' jokes on the individual Fools Day pages? If not, what is everyone's stance on this practice? Jalen Folf  (talk)  06:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I've personally been doing that just in case someone else doesn't come across it in time, but if consensus shifts, I'm happy to stop in the following April Fools days. – Toxi  Boi!  (public) 18:44, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

==Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § RfC: Time to stop April Fools' Day joke edits on Wikipedia?== You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § RfC: Time to stop April Fools' Day joke edits on Wikipedia?. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 18:55, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

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