List of events:

Deletion requests[edit]

• 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 [1]
• 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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[edit]

• Wikipedia: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.

Other[edit]

Jimbo[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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.)
• [2] 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 {{db-nou1}} to {{db-u2}}, since {{db-u1}} is {{db-user}} and {{db-u2}} is {{db-nouser}}