Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2016

WP:APRIL2016

Arbcom case

An arbcom case arose around a 2016 April Fool's Day piece in The Signpost, objections to it, and reactions to those objections: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others.

List of events

This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous.
Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

Nominations for deletion

Racism
Deletion was nominated for deletion per WP:RECURSION.
Jimmy Wales was nominated for deletion on the grounds of impersonating Jimbo.
Donald Trump was nominated for deletion because Bernie Sanders is better... Like, waaaaaaay better
- Bernie Sanders was "nominated" for deletion because Donald Trump is going to be the best president ever! Unfortunately, no one knows where the nomination went.
- In other news, Donald Trump's presidential campaign was nominated for deletion for being a complete hoax
AOL is nominated for deletion for being 2 old.
Delta Air Lines was nominated for deletion because of disliking circles.
iPhone SE was nominated for deletion since it looks like the iPhone 3.
Tadalafil was nominated for deletion because of the pain.
Windows 8 was nominated for deletion per WP:IDONTLIKEIT.
- Although the last three nominations have occurred, this is the first nomination to be an April Fools' prank.
Yandere Simulator was nominated for deletion. On her birthday!
Twitch.tv was nominated for deletion since Kappa.
Virgin America was nominated for deletion as the logo looked like boobs.
HTTP 404 was nominated for deletion 404 RATIONALE NOT FOUND
Undertale was nominated for deletion on the command of Chara.
Russia was nominated for deletion because it is too early to give up on communism.
- The report is ran over by a train after the phrase "I like trains" is muttered.
Wikipedia got nominated for deletion for the eighth time.
- Which is then nominated for deletion because it isn't an April Fools' day gag without a recursive xfd.
  - Which is in turn nominated for deletion for not meeting notability requirements.
    - Which is then flipped upside-down like a table.
Earth was speedied for being a hoax. Again.
User:TenPoundHammer was speedied for being a nonexistent user.
- The page is then nominated for deletion, like your common article.
The United States was nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is a hoax.
The Rules for Fools page was nominated for deletion for the second time on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a manual of what policies to follow.
Vandalism on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion on the grounds that everyone can agree that vandalism has no place on Wikipedia.
This page was flipped upside-down, since it seems that's all NewWikiProfile001 knows how to do.
- Spirit of Eagle then proceeds to flip the page upside down again instead of reverting, meaning the page has been flipped 360 degrees.
  - Which is then rotated another 360 degrees, making the page rather dizzy.
    - Spirit of Eagle gets so dizzy that he accidently warns himself for edits made to this page.
Wikipedia:Mouse! was nominated for deletion because, to quote Noyster, "The excellence of this feature is so blatantly obvious that there is no need whatever for an RfC".
WrestleMania 32 was nominated for deletion due to AT&T Stadium being closed all weekend, but also due to the fact that fans don't want Roman Reigns as WWE World Heavyweight champion.
Dihydrogen monoxide hoax nominated for deletion because dihydrogen monoxide is a real issue.
Shanghai Metro was nominated for deletion since it is too crowded.
Elizabeth II was nominated for deletion as nobody has heard of this person.
History was nominated for deletion so we can get a fresh start.
Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez) was nominated for deletion because it is better whited out.
Darth Vader was nominated for deletion for misusing the dark side of the force.
Lascaux was nominated for deletion because it's still too early.
Frozen (2013 film) was nominated for deletion as nothing could be found through all that ice.
History of the world was nominated for deletion because it is not notable.
Microsoft Windows was nominated for deletion (twice) because of a statement from the FSF saying that it's evil.
God was nominated for deletion for impersonating Morgan Freeman.
John Kasich was nominated for deletion for not really being a presidential candidate.
Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia was again nominated for deletion on the grounds that it is an "egregious hoax."
Bimbo Wales was nominated for deletion because of "taco".

User Pages

User:Peter SamFan's user page was blanked due to an unrecoverable system error. See link. [1]
You are blocked (fake) User talk:Titodutta#You are blocked
Jimbo's user page is redirected and then goofed up again. (See link.) [2]
Widr's user page was turned upside down. [3]
The Voidwalker's user page went splodey.
In a stunning display of originality, Spirit of Eagle's user page was flipped by 75 degrees.

General Jerryfoolery

An invalid redirect for creation was made and accepted.
- It wasn't realized however.
This section was renamed from "General tomfoolery" to "General jerryfoolery" as a Tom and Jerry pun.
- But like the invalid redirection request, it wasn't realized.
Template:Humor got an update (but was quickly reverted).

And then was changed again.

In the pranks by year section of Wikipedia:April Fools, the 2016 link was edited so that it led to the talk page rather than the project page. As a result, this page was created on the talk page and remained there for nearly an hour.
One grumpy User:David Levy decided to warn User:Clubjustin for playing jokes. A Zilla came to eat the grumpy user up.
Wikipedia:Copyright problems gets tagged with a copyright violation template because the header for the page directly takes from this webpage.
Wikipedia:April fools was redirected from Wikipedia:April Fools to Never Gonna Give You Up, resulting in a number of would-be pranksters getting Rickrolled.
An RFC was started at Wikipedia:Mouse! on some impending software.
Xkcd got sandy,
WP:NPA Was redirected to titusfox's userpage. 1
Tumbleweeds were seen crossing the RFA page
This page got rickrolled.
Upside Down (disambiguation) gets turned upside down.
How meta.

The page then goes right side up again.

Miscellaneous

Xaosflux made a bot approval request for his fellow bot Fluxbot at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fluxbot 401. "401" should be short for April Fools' Day.