Deletion nominations
Articles for deletion
- 10:35 was nominated for deletion because the sum of its digits no longer exists.
- 2023 and 2024 were nominated for deletion for containing overstimulating memes.
- 2024 United States presidential election was nominated for deletion for being another bad Hollywood remake of a classic.
- 50,000 was nominated for deletion for tramumatic reasons.
- 7 was nominated for deletion for eating 9 and intimidating 6.
- 9 was nominated for deletion because it was eaten by 7.
- Adobe Flash was nominated for deletion because it's still broken as of 2021.
- Ampersand was nominated for deletion for copying Tally Hall.
- Apple Inc. was nominated for deletion for being a monopoly.
- Art museum was nominated for deletion as a much larger sequel to the previous nomination.
- Baby (Justin Bieber song) was nominated for deletion per the most disliked YouTube video of 2010.
- Barbenheimer was nominated for deletion; which one is better?
- Big Nate (TV series) was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+.
- Bliss (image) was nominated for deletion, with a similar image to boot (pun not intended).
- BonziBuddy was nominated for deletion for killing many people's computers.
- Brawlhalla was nominated for deletion.
- Character.ai's Character Assistant chatbot nominated c.ai for deletion.
- Chelsea F.C and Manchester United F.C. were both nominated for deletion for being mid-table clubs.
- Clippy was nominated for deletion per WP:IDLI (it's super annoying, thank goodness it was completely removed in 2007)
- Color theory was nominated for deletion.
- Color was nominated for deletion because people edit war over color for no apparent reason.
- Cookie Monster was nominated for deletion because it is obviously unhealthy; this muppet even stole my cookies!
- Coyote vs. Acme was nominated for deletion for tax purposes.
- Decimal was nominated for deletion because 9 is eaten by 7.
- Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the first time.
- Déjà vu was nominated for deletion for the next time.
- Disney was nominated for deletion because of fair use.
- Deletion of articles on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion as an attempt to end this joke practice.
- Doki Doki Literature Club! was nominated for deletion as malware in my computer from 2018.
- Dollar Tree was nominated for deletion for raising its prices to a bad number of dollars and making the name of the store misleading.
- Dude, This Sucks was nominated for deletion per The Shower Rangers brainwashing the nominator into thinking the incident didn't happen.
- For the 21st time, Earth was nominated for deletion.
- Earth (song) was nominated for deletion because we wanted change.
- The Eras Tour was nominated for deletion because the nominator really wanted to go , but the tickets are too expensive.
- Exam was nominated for deletion for (seriously) real-life reasons.
- Example was nominated for deletion for Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
- The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder was nominated for deletion because it was removed from Paramount+ and everyone hated this reboot.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses was nominated for deletion in order to prevent three more years of Three Houses discourse.
- Flappy Bird was nominated for deletion because the bird app got hit by a pipe in 2014.
- Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) was (Redacted)
- Friday (Rebecca Black song) was nominated for deletion because it was
notFriday on 1 April 2011. - Gemini (chatbot) was nominated for deletion. The nomination reads like something...
- Generation Alpha was nominated for deletion.
- Grimace Shake was nominated for deletion per WP:DISRUPT and disruption of Chicago's transportation system.
- Hatsune Miku was nominated for deletion cuz "anime belongs in the trash".
- History was nominated for deletion on the grounds that the past is a hoax.
- Homestuck was nominated for deletion because we can fight the Homestuck.
- Holden Caulfield was nominated for deletion for being a phony.
- Horse was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
- Internet was nominated for deletion. What is the Internet anyway?
- Invisible was invisibly nominated for deletion.
- John Pesutto was Nominated for deletion for wanting to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop
- Kuru kuru...くるりん。
- Large language model was nominated for deletion for WP:BUZZWORD
- Leap Day was nominated for deletion because it only happens every 4 years, leading to a very slow process of information on this page.
- Letter (alphabet) was nominated for deletion since numbers are superior
- Lie was nominated for deletion as a hoax.
- Light mode was nominated for deletion because dark mode is superior.
- Melbourne Airport was nominated for deletion because they don't want a rail link
- Mojibake was nominated for deletion because 何ã‹ãŠã‹ã—ã„ã§ã™ã€‚
- Myspace was nominated to be Zucc'd; surely nothing bad will happen to me on Facebook —some 2009 teen.
- Midas was nominated for deletion as the nominator was tired of all the gold. Unfortunately for the nomination page...
- Online advertising was nominated for deletion per WP:Advertising.
- /Ohio will be eliminated.
- Optus was nominated for deletion because of the 2022 data breach and 2023 outage.
- Paramount+ was nominated for deletion because they purged a bunch of shows last week.
- Password and its game were nominated for deletion per overly complicated rules.
- Penguin was nominated for deletion because apparently they planned a military invasion of the nominator's userpage.
- Pink was nominated for deletion because it is nowhere on the visible spectrum.
- Pizza Rat was nominated for deletion because I think it moved to Chicago after 2016 and made a hole on the sidewalk.[citation needed]
- Plagiarism was nominated for deletion due to fear of an Hbomberguy video.
- Palworld was DESTORY THIS GAME SUCKS RIP OFF POKEMON This is a pokemon clone slow controls terbbie graphics low poly it looks like a 1 year old made it Pokemon Pikachu electric attack!
- Pokémon Go was nominated for deletion for causing many traffic violence in 2017.
- Procrastination, after nearly a year, was finally nominated for deletion because the nominator was agitated that they had to wait a year for said deletion.
- Quantity was nominated for deletion as an important reminder for April Foolers here.
- Raid: Shadow Legends was nominated for deletion per WP:NOADS, especially on YouTube videos in 2020.
- A Really Haunted Loud House was nominated for deletion because The Casagrandes Movie from the same franchise was way too good and managed to blow this movie out of a geyser.
- Red link was nominated for deletion because it shouldn't exist.
- Redirect was nominated for deletion as redirects takes onger time to reach the site.
- Remote work was nominated for deletion per I want to bike everywhere in 2022!
- Roblox death sound was oof'd; I quit Roblox in 2023.
- Rotten egg was nominated for deletion because it was removed from the latest edition of BeanBoozled.
- School was nominated for deletion for the sake of the children!
- Shrek was nominated for deletion so people will stop saying "Shrek is l__e."
- Sigma male was nominated for deletion for having e^(i*pi) level rizz.
- Skibidi Toilet was nominated for deletion.
- SNICK was nominated for deletion for forcing kids to do gross and unsanitary dares that could get them sick.
- SOPA and PIPA were nominated for deletion per censorship masquerading as "more copyright protection"; we literally had to go on strike for one day in 2012...
- Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was nominated for deletion because C.Q. Cumber did not want me to take Chicago's passenger rail system.
- TikTok was nominated for deletion again to accommodate with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
- The dress was nominated for deletion per ambiguity turned argument, at least back in 2015.
- Turn It On Again was nominated for deletion because someone wanted Phil to turn it off.
- Tyopgraphical error was accidentally nominated for deletion.
- Vehicle registration plate was nominated for deletion as there is already have vehicle identification number.
- United States Declaration of Independence was nominated for deletion.
- Waluigi was nominated for deletion in order to prevent Waluigi effect from happening.
- We're Lalaloopsy was nominated for deletion because a bunch of characters from the preceding series were cut off and half of the original Lalaloopsies never showed up.
- Webdriver Torso was nominated for deletion as a clear test article. mm
- We Didn't Start the Fire was nominated for deletion because we clearly did...
- William Shakespeare was nominated for deletion because the nominator is fed up with being taught his works in school.
- Windows 8 was nominated for deletion as it was too confusing to use as PC users in 2013.
- Windows 10 was nominated for deletion as 7 had to eat 9 for this OS's creation.
- Windows Mistake Edition was nominated for deletion as per its end of support in 2006.
- Winter was nominated for deletion because I don't like it as a Chicagoan.
- X was nominated for deletion because some people still call the social media app Twitter.
- Xenoblade Chronicles was nominated for deletion per violations of WP:CRYSTALBALL.
- Yellowcake was nominated for deletion because it's not tasty. I think I have radiation poisoning.
- This PSA was nominated for deletion because I would pirate copyrighted content (not really, don't sue me), especially in 2005.
- YouTube poop was nominated for deletion per the 2008 version of a dumpster fire we have now.
- YouTube Rewind was nominated for deletion per being the worst YouTube video of the 2010s by April 2019.
Categories for discussion
Files for discussion
Miscellany for deletion
- Epicgenius was nominated for deletion for failing to run for adminship, and thus, being a WP:NETNEGATIVE to the whole project. Shameful!
- Special:DeletePage was nominated for deletion because every page deserves to be kept.
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions was was nominated for deletion for a fourth time because it is a bad policy
Redirects for discussion
Templates for discussion
Users for deletion
Other requests
Requests for adminship
Requested moves
- No true Scotsman → True Scotsman and True Scotsman → No true Scotsman
- Could also swap Well poisoning and Poisoning the well.
- The day didn't started yet, as stated in the box above. Only ~5 hours left. Toadette (April Fools Day!) 19:33, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- Could also swap Well poisoning and Poisoning the well.
Featured picture candidates
In the News nominations
Project proposals
User page pranks
- In most nominations, AlphaBeta135's signature resembled a Metra platform sign: AlphaBeta135 talk (not endorsed by Metra and the Regional Transportation Authority).
- Lovable98158's userpage was slammed by two whales and a trout, and the font was changed to webdings.
- Melecie's userpage was put under a premium subscription.
- Misc Practice put the lyrics of The Ballad of the Sneak as a marqueed scroll, rotated his user page and skewed his userboxes.
- Planetberaure rotated his userpage 5 degrees because he was feeling a bit tilted.
- The storm of Silver the Hedgehogs returned to User:PrincessPandaWiki and User talk:PrincessPandaWiki and replaced the Whisper the Wolf symbol there because she didn't have time to come up with a new userpage prank.
- Turns out AlphaBetaGamma's claims of being a Japanese was a lie! He was proud Michigan resident all along!
- Thebiguglyalien reveals his true intentions in editing Wikipedia as an extraterrestrial.
- Wesoree's userpage was invaded by penguins.
- He later parked his ES44AC locomotive to stop the penguins from advancing further.
- Wesoree's sandbox was filled with sand.
- ~eltaday eplacedray eirthay userpageway's exttay ithway Igpay Atinlay. (translation: ~delta replaced their userpage's text with Pig Latin.)
- That Tired Tarantula's user page exploded and was raccoon and Comic Sans-ified.
- Ryanisgreat4444's opening part of his user page was covered in white.
- Mod creator has lots of things to read about, and was Tl;dr so there's nothing :)
- HistoryTheorist got April Fool'd
- Disoneiscool8745 ich bin nach Deutchland gegangen und spreche jetzt Deutch.
- Azeem1Hadzrie joined the April Fools' day thing again, replacing almost all the text shown with a gullible message about looking for life.
- WhoAteMyButter's death ray isn't working.
- LilianaUwU switched her header picture to an obviously superior bus.
Other pranks
Operation Radiance
Joke pages
- Cincinnati Reds–Oakland Athletics bottom of the 1st inning on April 29, 2023, an inning of a baseball game played during the 2023 MLB season.
- Interstate 38 connecting Hawaii and California was opened.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletionAmpersand Was accidentally created with the April fools AFD template in an attempt to nominate Ampersand for deletion.
- A Parking Lot has appeared!
- Someone had a big car and took all of the parking spots. Then they all got towed.
- An IP user expanded the parking lot
- The Keepy Uppy Balloon and the WikiWombat both appeared
- An Airbus A380 parked in the parking lot, but was destroyed by a bazooka.
- The Airbus became undead. Then it died again.
- An Airbus A380 parked in the parking lot, but was destroyed by a bazooka.
- The Keepy Uppy Balloon and the WikiWombat both appeared
- An IP user expanded the parking lot
- Someone had a big car and took all of the parking spots. Then they all got towed.
- Red Sea was turned into a sea of red.
- WP:October was updated to honor the continued existence of Halloween.
- Melecie created a userscript to set the font of joke pages like this to Comic Sans.
Main Page
- Today's picture of the day is Nelly Martyl, a french opera singer that participated in world premiers.
- Today's other featured picture shows a view of the Dom Luís I Bridge in Porto, Portugal during the blue hour
- Today's featured article is The Order of Brothelyngham, which was a gang of men that faked a religious order in Exton, Devon.
- There are a couple of facts in the did you know section.
- On this day in 1969, The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
- Today's List features the anthropodermic bibliopegy, which was the most popular practice that peaked in the 19th century. Taken from the list of books bound in human skin
- The featured place is Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Other serious stuff
- Parts of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Déjà vu were redacted as a copyvio of song lyrics.
XFD poll
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