Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2013
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List of events
Nominations for deletion
The usuals
- Earth is nominated for deletion for the 8th time on the grounds that it is non-notable and an obvious hoax
New stuff
- 2012 phenomenon is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it never happened
- Wikipedia:Oversight is nominated to be oversighted at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Oversight
- The MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- In a surprising instance of April Fools' Day MFDs being successful, 5 of the MFD pages are deleted per each other.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- The MFD page of the MFD page is nominated for deletion.
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is resulting in too much deletion
- Copyright infringement is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is a copyright infringement of copyright infringement; the resulting deletion discussion was deleted, possibly for copyright infringement
- Doctor (Doctor Who) is nominated for deletion on the grounds that he should be exterminated
- Harlem Shake (meme) is nominated for deletion as a form of Rickrolling.
- April Fools' Day is nominated for deletion as an already covered topic of Zach Galifianakis.
- Wikipedia:PROD was PRODedon the grounds that "the article is terrible, and the author should feel terrible".
- Religion is nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is patent nonsense. The deletion discussion was subsequently deleted, possibly for religious reasons.
- Homework is nominated for deletion on the grounds that is an object that nobody enjoys
- Nicki Minaj is redirected to Lil' Kim before being reverted. Eventually, the article is requested for redirection on the grounds of jackin Lil Kim's swagga and style and being a duplicate of Kim. Many different suggestions on what to do with Nicki herself are made.
- Kesha is nominated for deletion as Katy Perry's "drunkard alter ego".
- Fight Club is nominated for deletion because we do not talk about the Fight Club.
- wikimedia foundation was nominatedfor deletion on the grounds of it being patent nonsense and blatant hoax
- Magic 8-Ball if its article should be deleted.
- This page was marked as containing original research, then nominated for deletion, which resulted in a mighty terrorist attack utilizing weapons of mass destruction. After a slight name change, it was nominated again as a joke, but the discussion quickly turned serious.
- Latvia nominated for deletion by DJ EV
- Template:Tfd is nominated for deletion.
- WP:REDIRECT is nominated for deletion.
Other nominations
- request for foundership.
- Wikipedia:Requests for foundership/FrigidNinja is then seriously nominated for deletion.
- The RfF eventually closes as successful in an alternate universe.
- Bishzilla is nominated for foundership
- User:Sue Gardner is flogged indefinitely for being well known
- nominated for adminship.
- nominated for adminship.
- nominated for adminship.
- User:The Blade of the Northern Lights exposes the RfA talkpage for what it is.
- WP:USEENGLISH
- A takeover of Encyclopedia Dramatica by Wikipedia is proposed.
General nonsense
- Jimbo is welcomed to Wikipedia
- It was noted that inverted the Main Pageof Wikipedia for his own nefarious means.
- Jimbo was made an offer by extraterrestrials which led to a request for comment.
- Volleyball in Latvia has been redirected to Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
- Cyberpower678 displays a false new messages banner.
- Cyberpower678 has been using other people's signature styles.
- Cyberbot I is claiming to self-destruct due to internal errors.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games closed down but later got better.
- Arctic Kangaroo.
- YouTube is edited as the website closed down but later it got reverted.
- The Main Page started off with The Feature Article of the Day, which ended up being nothing but a big, giant question mark.
- In The News decided April Fools' Day was silly and became a stick in the mud by not joining in.
- Luckily, Did You Know? was not as serious and decided to post several silly lists to celebrate.
- On This Day also decided to get into the fun with their own silly list of events from the past.
- Not to be outdone The Picture Of The Day showed A Square Earth map from the 19th Century.
- Last, but not least The Featured List ended up with pigs in a mouth.
On the Web
- Google played a collection of pranks on April 1, 2013.[1] A sampling:
- Google Schmick – Place designer elements on Google Maps to "spruce up" an area.
- Google Maps Treasure Hunt Mode – This is tied to a real event in Australia, and converted Google Maps to look like a treasure map. Streetview became a sepia view through a scratched telescope.
- YouTube Announced to Shut Down – In a story that gained media attention, YouTube was announced to be shutting down. No new video submissions were said to be accepted and one video would be chosen the best of them all. The decision is expected in 2023.
- Google Nose – The ability to search by sniffing. Ironically, the video explaining it is on YouTube.
- Mishapocalypse – when fans of an actor Misha Collins took over Tumblr