As a result of last year's chaos, new rules were passed prohibiting edit warring on the April Fools Day page; the page was also locked down in mid-March through April 4, meaning only experienced Wikipedians could edit it. Due to these changes, 2021 was much calmer than previous years. However, in the absence of the Great Edit War, Wikipedians played pranks in other mediums. Most notably, there were well over a hundred joke deletion nominations.

As a result of this record number of joke nominations, a consensus was reached to move April Fools' joke nominations onto a separate log page.

Wikipedians participating in the April Fools Day festivities also held an informal poll from the end of the 1st through the 7th to determine the best Articles for Deletion nomination. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ever Given, nominated by Narutolovehinata5 and with major contributions by Aseleste and Panini!, came in first place with eleven votes. More detailed results can be viewed here.

Articles for deletion[edit]

• 0.999... was nominated for deletion per WP:TOOLONG.
  • The result was redirect to 1. They're the same thing anyways.
• 2020 was nominated for deletion for obvious reasons.
  • The AfD page was then nominated at MfD.
  • The result was this April’s Fools AfD nearly remaining open until Easter🐇🥚🥚🥚.
• 5G was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was 5G causes cancer.^{[citation needed][dubious – discuss]}
• 7 Years (Lukas Graham song) was nominated for deletion as the nominator thought it was their least favorite song.
  • The result was Fin.
• A AAA AAAAAAAAA AAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAA A.
  • AAA AAAAAA AA AAA AAAAAAAAAA AAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
• Air was nominated for deletion because it doesn't exist.
  • The result was merge to Carbon monoxide because what could go wrong?
• Alderaan was nominated for deletion.
• Alternative for Germany was nominated for deletion.
• Among Us was nominated for deletion for being sus.
  • The result was to eject the nominator for self-reporting.
• Anime was nominated for deletion.
• April 2 was nominated for deletion for being no fun.
  • The result was No thank you.
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? was nominated for deletion in tale form.
  • The result was Dark mode enabled.
• Austria was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was redirect to Australia.
• Bee was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
  • The result was speedy keep per WP:ILIKEIT and WP:SUPERVOTE.
• Beef was nominated for deletion because u shud eat mor chikin.
  • The result was Beef. It's What's for Dinner.
• Billie Eilish was nominated for deletion for not giving coverage on eyelashes, therefore WP:NOTHING.
  • The result was bury a friend.
• Boeing was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was speedy delete. The subject deleted itself by disintegration during production due to poor quality control.
• Borat was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was NOT nice.
• Border was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was to see travel restrictions.
• Boris Johnson was nominated for obliteration per WP:SPAM.
  • The result was merge to Blond.
• Bugs Bunny was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was No chungsensus.
• Caillou was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was cancelled.
• Canada was nominated for deletion for a 2nd time for not existing.
  • The result was Replace with hatnote at United States.
• Cancel culture was nominated for cancellation.
  • The discussion was cancelled.
    • And then cancel culture was nominated for cancellation for the 2nd time.
      • In all seriousness, the result was speedy keep.
• Cattle was nominated for deletion because a wise cow said so.
  • The result was Moo moo moo.
• Chowder (TV series) was nominated for deletion because radda.
  • The result was radda radda radda radda radda radda radda.
• Comic Sans was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
  • The result was Sans (Undertale) (but the link was the signature of User:Tanker4390)
• Consensus was nominated for deletion per WP:NOCONSENSUS.
  • The result was No.
• Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School was nominated for deletion so that the nominator would no longer have to attend classes there.
  • The result was deleted so the nominator doesn't have to go to school anymore.
• Cortana was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was switch to Siri.
• Crab Rave was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was 🦀🦀.
• Cyberpunk 2077 was nominated for deletion per WP:BUG.
  • The result was deleted per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Daft Punk was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Technologic.
• Detachable Penis was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was reattached.
• Dictionary was nominated for deletion per WP:DICT.
  • The result was merge to Thesaurus.
• Discord (software) was nominated for deletion.
• Disemvoweling was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Prcdrl cls pr th rqst of the grmmr plc.
• DNA was nominated for deletion because humanity was a mistake; revert to monke.
  • The result was BANANA BOAT.
• Dr. Luke was nominated for deletion.
• Duck was nominated for deletion per WP:QUACK.
  • The result was It sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me. Blocked, tagged, closing.
• Earth was nominated for deletion at the 20th nomination because some guy named Scottywong salted the 12th!
  • After 04-01, it was moved to the 12^th
    nomination not to mess up with the nominations.
• Elevator was nominated for deletion because it wasn't working.
  • The result was Elevator is now operational.
• Ever Given was nominated for destruction.
  • Three hours later, a giant image of an Ever Given was placed on the AfD page.
    • It then got stuck.
      • Then an excavator tried to clear it out.
        • It then turned upside down and the excavators were shocked.
          • It began to spin, so more excavators got to work.
            • And then it began to spin violently, and the excavators got scared and they sounded the alarm.
              • Then it blew up. This was reverted as non-canon to the story.
                • Then the excavator army Doubled its numbers.
                  • Then the spinning slowed down and was replaced with a dangling Walmart sign. This was reverted as non-canon to the story.
                    • The boat was detained.
                      • And then, at long last, the boat was freed!
• Fall Guys was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Draftified to await G13.
• Fortnite was nominated for deletion per WP:GAME.
  • The result was redirect to Minecraft.
• Fossil Fools Day was nominated for deletion for being a WP:RIPOFF.
  • The result was Trout fossil.
• Frown was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was turned upside down.
• GameStop was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was 🚀🚀🚀.
• GeForce 30 series was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Solve the GPU shortage.
• Genshin Impact was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Maybe I wasn't meant for this world....
• Gibberish was nominated for deletion because ajhdshs.
  • The result was [unintelligible].
• Glasses was nominated for deletion per Whoa, everything's so blurry all of a sudden! Where did everyone go? What does this text say?
  • Instructions unclear; the result was Vision corrected.
• Google Stadia was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was April Fools is over and so is Stadia.
• Gorilla Glue was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was sticky.
• Gotye was nominated for deletion.
• Graffiti was nominated for deletion per WP:VANDAL.
  • The result was blocked without talk page access.
• Grand Theft Auto V was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was stolen.
• Happy Meal was nominated for deletion for not making me happy.
  • The result was redirect to Depression per WP:SUPERVOTE.
• Harry Potter was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Avada kedavra'd.
• Hoax was nominated for deletion per WP:HOAX.
  • The result was This discussion never existed.
• Hololive Production was nominated for deletion.
• Indefinite article was specifically subjected to an articles for deletion discussion.
  • The result was indefinite.
• Interstate 296 was nominated for deletion for being an unsigned Interstate highway.
  • The result was Signed with ~~​~~.
• Irrational number was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was 2.7182818284590452353602874713527.
• It (2017 film) was nominated for deletion per WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT.
  • The result was Explode per WP:NUKEIT.
• Jake from State Farm was nominated for deletion for being inferior to Drake from State Farm.
  • The result was stand-ins don't have lines.
• Japan was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was explode per WP:TNT.
• Jar Jar Binks was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was kill with fire!
• Jedi was nominated for deletion per Order 66.
  • The result was the near total extermination of the Jedi and rise of the Galactic Empire. Don't worry though, Luke Skywalker would blow up the Death Star and bring democracy to the galaxy, at least until his nephew blew up the new Republic. By the way, have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
• Jimmie Johnson was nominated for deletion for retiring from NASCAR.
  • The result was boom, confetti!
• Joy-Con was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was speedy drift.
• Killer Queen was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Explode.
  • If you would have replied to it, you would have exploded.
• King Crimson was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was rename to Queen Periwinkle.
• Krusty Krab was nominated for deletion per "No, this is Patrick."
  • The result was Krusty Kraahyahayabyahahyab Pizza, is the pizza, yeahya, for you and...mehee^heehee-ee!
• Krystal Ball was nominated for deletion per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL.
  • The result was speedy keep per WP:NOTCRYSTALBALLISNOTNOTKRYSTALBALL.
• Lepidammodytes macrophthalmus (a completely insignificant species of fish) was nominated for deletion so it didn't feel left out of the April Fools' Day festivities. Please make sure to show it some love everyone!💕
  • The result was Whaled, presumably because some monster placed {{Whale}} on the page.
• List of Wikipedia controversies was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was delete because we can.
• Lockdown was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was continue the lockdown.
• Magic was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was delete per WP:HOAX.
• Main Page was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was WP:DDTMP, and the nominator was warned.
• Mappa mundi was nominated for deletion per WP:PATENTNONSENSE.
• Mario was nominated for deletion.
  • Press F to pay respects.
• MediaWiki was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was delete per WP:IDONTLIKETHENEWLOGO.
• Michigan Wolverines football was nominated for deletion for being irrelevant.
  • The result was delete, basketball schools don't need football pages.
• Microsoft was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was merge with macOS and Linux.
• Milky Way was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was eaten.
• Moai was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was 🗿.
• Monty Python was nominated for deletion per WP:SPAM.
  • The result was nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
• Never Gonna Give You Up time was nominated for deletion.
  • This article will never be given up per WP:SNOW.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Sent to miniluv for your crimethink.
• Ninjala was nominated for deletion per WP:NCR.
  • The result was merge to Minecraft.
• Nose was nominated for deletion because WP:BEANS exists.
  • The result was WP:BEANS
• Notability was nominated for deletion because it clearly fails WP:N.
  • The result was Redirect to Four-dimensional space.
• Ooa a oiae o eeio.
  • e eu a ee e :O.
• Opinion was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Ask Tucker Carlson.
• OS was nominated for deletion with a Cytus II reference.
  • The result was Æsir'd.
• Paper Mario: The Origami King was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Trashed.
• Pennsylvania was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was delete per WP:HOAX.
• Pineapple on Pizza was nominated for deletion.
• Police was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Call 9-1-1.
• Pompeii (song) was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Mount Vesuvius'ed.
• Procrastination was nominated for deletion.
  • The result will be closed later.
• Pufferfish was nominated for deletion per WP:BLOATED.
  • The result was Trouted.
• QR code was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was totally did not get rickroll'd.
• Red was accused for being WP:SUS.
  • The result was User:Jimbo Wales was ejected.
• Redundancy was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was merge with Redundant.
• Russia was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Our keep.
• SCP-682 was nominated for destruction.
  • The result was laptop exploded upon attempting to delete it.
• SCP Foundation was nominated for deletion per [REDACTED].
  • The result was █████. Consensus was [REDACTED], [EXPUNGED], and █████.
• Shrubbery was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Prune.
• Sinai Peninsula was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was merge with List of islands in the Mediterranean to expand the Suez Canal.
• Snow was nominated for deletion per WP:SNOW.
  • It was then closed as keep per WP:SNOW.
    • It was then reopened right after.
      • It was then closed again per WP:SNOW.
• Something Strange was nominated for deletion per WP:STRANGE.
  • The result was something strange.
• Spam (food) was nominated for deletion for obvious WP:SPAM.
  • The result was Spam removed.
• Speedy Gonzales was nominated for deletion per WP:SPEEDY.
  • The result was Speedy keep per WP:SKCRIT and WP:BUGSBUNNY.
• Spoiler (media) was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was ██████.
• Steam (service) was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was to play beta versions of Celeste, which happen to be exclusive to Steam.
• Streisand effect was nominated for deletion per WP:BEANS and WP:BLP.
  • The result was Featured picture.
• Suez Canal was nominated for deletion by WP:EXPLODING it.
  • The result was keep. The Suez canal was widened after the relocation of the Sinai Peninsula.
• Super Mario 3D All-Stars was nominated for deletion due to the game's discontinuation.
  • Instead, Mario was killed. Rest In Peace. F.
• Super Mario Bros. 35 was nominated for deletion for the same reason as Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
  • The result was a link to the Mario death sound effect.
• SUS was nominated for deletion.
  • And then someone proceeded to add text art of Jerma985.
    • Turns out everyone was sus.
• Swallow was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was swallowed.
• Synthesizer was nominated for deletion per WP:SYNTH.
  • The result was Delete per WP:SYNTH.
• The Day I Became a God was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was You will never become God.
• The Simpsons was nominated for deletion for WP:TOOLONG.
  • The result was Doughnut touch the page.
• Three-dimensional space was nominated for deletion per WP:3D.
  • The result was Make 4D.
• Tiger King was nominated for deletion per WP:BEANS.
  • The article was fed to the tigers.
• Time travel was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was terminated by the grandfather paradox.
• Tokyo Babylon 2021 was nominated for deletion per WP:PLAGIARISM.
  • The result was cancel.
• Two-dimensional space was nominated for deletion per WP:FLAT and the Flat Earthers.
  • The result was make 3D.
• Uncyclopedia was nominated for deletion per the previous consensus.
  • The result was merge with Wikipedia.
• United States Electoral College was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was great wrong righted.
• United States Numbered Highway System was nominated for deletion.
• Universe was nominated for deletion per WP:COI.
  • The result was delete the observable universe. The rest of the universe can be deleted later.
• U.S. Route 66 was nominated for decommission.
  • The result was recommission.
• Virtual YouTuber was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Hail the vTubers.
• Walgreens was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was merged with Walmart.
• Water was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was speedy evaporate per WP:A41.
• Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for the ∞th time.
  • The AfD page was later moved to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia (11th nomination).
    • The result was WP:COI.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was nominated for deletion.
  • The result was Dug too deep.
• Windows 10 was nominated for deletion, and it came with a BSOD.
  • The result was switch to Linux.
• Your Lie in April was nominated for deletion for being a WP:LIE.
  • The result was delete per WP:HOAX.
• Zero-dimensional space was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT.
  • The result was keep per WP:NOTPOINTy.

Joke nominations for Robinhood (company) and Mike Soroka were also written, but they were later courtesy blanked.

Categories for discussion[edit]

Today's log is here.

• Category:Contents
  • The result was Listified. Now you have a list of all Wikipedia pages.
• Category:Wikipedia April Fools' Day 2021
  • The result was April fools is over.
• Category:Computational fluid dynamics
• Category:Recursion
  • The result was The result of the discussion was The result of the discussion was The result of the discussion was ...

Files for discussion[edit]

• File:Wikipedia.png

Miscellany for deletion[edit]

Today's log is here.

• MediaWiki:Sitenotice
• MediaWiki:Common.css
• Special:Block
  • The result was No more blocks.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion
  • The result was So meta.
• Special:AllPages
  • The result was mutually assured destruction invoked, Wikipedia not nuked
• Wikipedia:Administrators
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles per WP:TLDR.
• Wikipedia:Users for Deletion
  • The result was delete user per WP:BOOMERANG.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • The result was April 1st is over (in Impact (typeface))
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Wikipedia:Discord
  • The result was Deleted, oversighted, salted, title blacklisted, spam blacklisted, added to bad image list, creation blocked by edit filter.
• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools
  • The result was delete per WP:IAR.
  • The Rules for Fools nomination was itself nominated for deletion.
    • And that nomination was moved to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Rules for Fools (1000000th nomination) before being moved back.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 April 1
  • The nomination technically remained opened (albeit dormant) for 373 days
  • The end result was Blocked all vandals.
• Special:UserLogin
  • The result was delete all accounts.

Redirects for discussion[edit]

• Baka Mitai → Yakuza 0#Internet meme
  • The result was retarget to Fool.
• FBI → Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Lazy people → Laziness
• A bunch of deletion discussion redirects
  • Wikipedia:AFD → Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  • Wikipedia:MFD → Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion
  • Wikipedia:TFD → Wikipedia:Templates for discussion
  • Wikipedia:FFD → Wikipedia:Files for discussion
  • Wikipedia:CFD → Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
  • Wikipedia:RFD → Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
  • Wikipedia:CSD → Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
  • Wikipedia:PROD → Wikipedia:Proposed deletion
  • Their results were delete almost all per TLAcreep. Except for WP:PROD, not a TLA.
• Chees → Cheese
• Monstercat Silk → Monstercat#Silk Music
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch → Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
• Jimbo Whales → Jimmy Wales

Templates for discussion[edit]

• Template:4-1 was proposed for merging with Template:3 per WP:MATH.
• Template:Citation needed^{[citation needed]}
• Template:Mbox was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
• Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD

Users for deletion[edit]

• Example
• Number 57
• 127.0.0.1
• Jimbo Wales
  • The result was overthrow.
• TenPoundHammer
• Zvikorn
• Panini!
• JJPMaster
• Cyberpower678

Requests for Undulation[edit]

• Typo
• Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion

Requests for adminship[edit]

• Cydebot
• 2022 FIFA World Cup

Requests for bureaucratship[edit]

• MediaWiki message delivery
• MediaWiki default
• ADF7:C22E:43CC:69B8:4B60:5395:B1BC:CA38

Requested moves[edit]

• COVID-19 → The 'rona
• Wikipedia:Teahouse → Wikipedia:Coffeehouse
• Water → Dihydrogen monoxide
• BTS → Jungkook Jeon Clubhouse
• Recursion → Recursion
• Among Us → The game where a bunch of astronauts stab each other with a knife.- Result: Oppose nom sus

Featured article candidates[edit]

• Shrubbery was nominated as a featured article.

Bot requests[edit]

• Bot to remind editors that most ideas are bad

Page protection requests[edit]

• The Teahouse
• Wikipedia:Sandbox

Proposed merges[edit]

• Talk:2021 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament/Proposed merge: merge the men's tournament with the women's tournament to create a single 132-team tournament.

• Spirit of Eagle's user-page was tilted to commemorate April Fools Day
• Arccosecant's userboxes started bouncing around all over the page.
• Disoneiscool8745's page was rotated 153 degrees.
  • And now the user's page is now skewed to the right and has changed to symbols. It has also been graced with several slappings of Trouts and a smashing by a whale (which all of those got deepfried) and has been stink bombed.
    • Now it got converted to Wingdings and added the "Whales" bullet.
      • And Disoneiscool8745 has changed it back to symbols, with the Whales bullet gone.
        • The Whales bullet was replaced with "Get your daily fix", which was linked to a rickroll, then was changed to a baby shark livestream.
• In return, Lovable98158's page was rotated 273 degrees.
  • Later, on the same page, a bullet that read "Whales" was listed, but linking a livestream of "Baby Shark".
    • Which was later changed to Bread, linked to Duckroll.
      • Then changed to Rock, linked to the aforementioned Baby Shark livestream.
        • Then the link changed to the Narwhal song, while still saying rock.
          • The rock link now has summoned the almighty Whale and has smashed User:Lovable98158's page.
            • Then it became whale meat and was removed thereafter.
              • Then the rock link was rebranded as cool, but linked to the TV short "Operation: Cool Quest" from "Baby Shark's Big Show"
                • Shortly, the word was changed to clue, but linking the Detective short from the same show, not the actual Clue
                  • Just under 5 minutes before the end, the link was changed to countdown, but linking “No time for timeouts” from “Baby Shark’s Big Show”.
• Pythoncoder did some stuff to his userpage.
  • The entire userpage was skewed −10 degrees and set in the font Papyrus.
  • An emergency user slap button was added to the top of the page.
  • He also added this message to the top of his tab page: Sign my petition to ban April Fools jokes on Wikipedia! ➔
• Panini!'s userpage was changed to that of the Sanskrit grammarian.
  • And then it was changed to Kate Gosselin.
• User:Billionnine filled his own user article with kek, a hard to read april fools, and the first five letters of the russian alphabet.
• JalenFolf's userpage was translated to Greek.
  • It was reverted before the day was over.
• User:TuxStrikesBack lists some "proclamations" in the style of "The Big Furry Hat" segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
• User:Cindercat's userpage was rotated 69 degrees.
• User:Tanker4390's userpage was replaced with the Sans Movie script.
• ActuallyNeverHappened02's userpage and The Wikipedian Constitution were both translated into French. (Well, not the userboxes, dang it!)
  • Then someone translated it into Russian.
  • Then he makes a very impassioned plea to vandalize the linked page.
    • Then he decides "actually, maybe not".
      • Then someone turns it into CYKA BLYAT.
        • Then that same person turns it into that USSR version of YMCA.
• JJPMaster did this to their userpage
• User:TenPoundHammer's talk page was briefly redirected to "Never Gonna Give You Up".
  • It was reverted several hours later because "talk pages are an important communication tool".
• LightningComplexFire deliberately turned their userpage into patent nonsense.
• Nhoj609 changed his userpage to read "Fuck Maroon 5" and "All my homies hate Maroon 5", with a giant photo of the band sandwiched between both sentences.
• Lovable98158 is asking if his foolery package has arrived.
• User:Awesome Aasim's talk page was turned upside down.
• NASCARfan0548 turned several userpages upside down.
• User:OcelotCreeper's user-page was rotated 4.20 degrees, to commemorate the Great April Fools' Day Edit War of 2020.
  • The page was then rotated to 0.420 degrees.
    • However, OcelotCreeper, being on vacation, was completely oblivious to the prank until he came back.

• On March 31, the link to this page found on WP:APRIL became a rickroll.
• Mere minutes before April 1st UTC, User:Moonythesock spoofed common WP:AFC spam in their sandbox, and submitted it for review.
  • Exodus Equity Corporation LLC. is very serious business, and not a joke!!!!! —moonythesock (Sock P.) 23:58, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Moonythesock Special:Diff/1015364490 reported to AIV and then to SRG m:special:diff/21284331 by an unsuspecting editor.
      • Another unsuspecting editor G11ed the page. Moonythedwarf comments: "Maybe I shouldn't have wrote it with GPT-2, it was a bit too good at it's job."
• Someone started an RFC to sell Wikipedia while the Wikimedia Foundation isn't looking.
  • Instructions on purchasing Wikipedia are available at Help:Buying Wikipedia.
• The edit notice for Boston made clear which accent the article should be written in. Archive link
• The subject-specific notability guideline for mailboxes was introduced.
• Draft:Dupont Circle CVS escalator was submitted to AfC.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 April 1#April Fools' Day nominations's font was changed to Comic Sans.
  • The font was then changed to Wingdings.
    • And then it was back to Comic Sans again.
      • Someone added images of Jimbo to the section.
        • And then it was reverted shortly after. "No thank you," they said.
          • Someone then rotated the section by 2 degrees.
            • And now the section's font gets bigger as you go down.
              • Then it became Times New Roman.
                • Then the arrows at the top of the page were made large and given a red background.
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#April Fool's Day Nominations's font was also changed to Comic Sans.
  • And then it was rotated one degree.
• A concisely-worded RfC at VPR proposed a change to Agatheira.
• WP:October was created to document Halloween related festivities on Wikipedia.
• SUPER JIMBO BROS was added to the Template:BJAODN.
• A rickroll disguised as a supplemental jokes policy was added to the April Fool's Notice template.
• Someone confused pages with articles.
• WP:SUS was temporarily redirected to Among Us.
• Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard's font was changed to Comic Sans. A picture was also added in the edit.

• "RedWarn Premium" is released. Pahunkat (talk) 13:61, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • A fake MfD for the RedWarn userscript was subsequently filed.
• The Arbitration Committee was reported at UAA for being a WP:NOSHARING violation.
• A discussion was started at WP:ERRORS to see if Mr Bean's DYK should actually be Mr. Bean to match his TV programme.
• Criterion A41 was added to the speedy deletion criteria, allowing any article subject that poses immediate danger to be deleted.
  • It was later spun out into the criteria for annihilation.
• A page documenting Wikipedia's April Fools 1918 pranks was created.
• A totally legit petition to ban excess joke AfDs was posted on this talk page.
• At the reference desk, someone asked if mayonnaise is an instrument.
• Bad articles was created, in contrast with Good articles.
• WikiProject Wikipedia was tagged for COI
• Wikipedia:Be bold was bolded

• Here is an archive of the Main Page as it appeared on this day.
• Groundhog Day (film) is the TFA, with a repeating blurb and recently featured section featuring itself.
• My Wife's Lovers, a painting of forty-two cats, is the Picture of the Day.
• DYK has the usual assortment of joke entries, with the hooks for Cthulhu for President receiving the most views out of all of the leads and the hook for Rio de Flag receiving the most views for a non-lead hook.

Reception off of Wikipedia[edit]

Social media reaction to the April Fools' Main Page was positive, with several people on Twitter calling it one of the only good April Fools' jokes this year.^[1]

In the week following April Fools' Day, a poll was created on Google Forms to crown the best joke AfD nomination of the year. The winner was Ever Given, with 11 votes. 2nd and 3rd place went to Glasses and Lepidammodytes macrophthalmus, respectively. Here are the complete results:

Complete Results

Nom.	Votes
Ever Given	11
Glasses	7
Lepidammodytes macrophthalmus	4
Earth	3
Red	2
A	2
Moai	2
Mario	2
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion... etc.	2
Bee	1
Snow	1
It (2017 film)	1
2020	1
List of Wikipedia controversies	1
Cancel culture	1
Mike Soroka	1
Canada	1
Speedy Gonzales	1
0.999...	1
Uncyclopedia	1
Illegitimate votes	2