Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024

April Fools Day 2024 marked the twenty-first year that the holiday was celebrated on Wikipedia.[a] Wikipedia editors made nearly 250 joke AfD nominations; Operation Radiance alone resulted in the creation of fourteen color themed AfDs and twenty-one AfDs about 2004-2024 Internet phenomena. Due to the vast number of joke AfD nominations, the April Fool's Day deletion log had to be split in two.

From April 2-4, Wikipedians who participated in the festivities held an informal vote to determine the best jokes of 2024. In addition to the by-now standard best joke AfD question, this year's poll included two new questions regarding the best non-AfD joke and the best prankster. The winner of the three categories are as follows:

The full results are available here.

Deletion nominations

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Articles for deletion

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  • The result was Dilute.
  • The result was
    Arial.
  • But did anyone who doesn't work as a corporate higherup at Warner Bros. Discovery think it was a good show to begin with?
  • The result was would have been deleted, if it weren't for those meddling kids!‎

Miscellany for deletion

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Redirects for discussion

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Templates for discussion

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Users for deletion

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Other requests

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Articles for creation

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Requests for adminship

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Requests for comment

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Requested moves

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User page pranks

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A typical platform sign on Metra, located on Flossmoor station
UPDATE: After April Fools jokes on Jimbo's user page got reverted several times, "offending" users were warned with an oddly similar warning template... (1 2)

Other pranks

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Operation Radiance

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Joke pages

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Miscellaneous

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The CTA should extend the Green Line from Cottage Grove to South Chicago via the Metra Electric Line

Main Page

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The Dom Luis I bridge, today's featured photo from Wikimedia Commons
Artist's impression of a ray cat
Mugshot of Pep

Other serious stuff

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  • Parts of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Déjà vu were redacted as a copyvio of song lyrics. Reminds us of someone we know.
  • A nomination about Israel was speedy deleted, alongside several others by the same creator.
  • Mainspace joke page Cloning 2 was nominated for speedy deletion.
  • A nomination for the Russian language was sent to MFD.
  • This year's Earth nomination was sent to MFD due to it being too repetitive annually.
    • The result was consensus to title blacklist, no consensus to delete.
  • Several joke nominations, like Twitter (4th nomination), were speedy-deleted as being created by a long-term abuser.
  • The Master of Hedgehogs tried making an April Fool's nomination of 8, and made a serious one by mistake. He was given an only warning for vandalism.

XFD poll

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The winners of April Fools' Day 2024 are Procrastination, Parking Lot, and AlphaBeta135!

Procrastination won the tie-break. More information about this decision can be found on the talk page.

AfD vote tally
Nomination Votes
vu 3
Procrastination 3
Ampersand 2
Art museum 2
7 1
2024 United States presidential election 1
American English 1
Arizona 1
Barbiehiemer [sic] 1
Car 1
Color theory 1
COVID-19 pandemic 1
Dial-up Internet access 1
Disney 1
Doki! Doki! Literaturę club [sic] 1
Earth (song) 1
Everything 1
Generation Alpha 1
GLaDOS 1
Goldfish 1
Grimace Shake 1
Heel 1
Holy Hell 1
Internet 1
Isles of Scilly 1
Jimmy Wales[b] 1
Miles "Tails" Prower 1
Ohio 1
Skibidi Toilet 1
The Amazing Digital Circus 1
The Eras Tour 1
Wikipedia 1
Non-AfD vote tally
Nomination Votes
Parking Lot 6
Panini!'s Challenge 3
Operation Radiance 2
Artist's impression of a ray cat 1
Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines → Two children that need to be turned into corpses 1
DYK "The Charm quark" 1
DYK "Colin Mackay" 1
Miscellany for deletion/Special:DeletePage 1
Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? 1
Seizing the sandbox 1
Upside-Down Cake 1
User:MemeGod27 1
Requests for botship 1
Requests for botship/AlphaBeta135 1
Prankster vote tally
Nomination Votes
AlphaBeta135 9
TheTechie 2
Sebbers10 2
Melecie 2
LilianaUwU 1
QuicoleJR 1
Ryanisgreat4444 1

Sandbox

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A certain hedgehog master turned the sandbox into sand. [permalink]

 
"Mr. Administrator, Manual of Style is not an actual person, Manual of Style is the Cabal's policy!"

Notes

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  1. ^ Starting with and including April Fools' Day 2004
  2. ^ The actual vote said "Jimbo Wales" but since this is not the name of the article, instead his username, it was deduced that the voter meant to say "Jimmy Wales."