Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2009

List of events:

Deletion requests

• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion is nominated for deletion again.
• Jimbo's user page is subject to a deletion discussion.
  • The page discussing deletion of Jimbo's page is nominated for deletion.
    • The page discussing deletion of the page discussing deletion of Jimbo's page is nominated for deletion (full title: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales
      • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales is tagged for speedy deletion. [1]
        • That is tagged for deletion - Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales
          • That is tagged for deletion - Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales
            • Something appears to have gone wrong
              • In summary, Jimbo's userpage was MfD'd 5 times... recursively. Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2009/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jimbo Wales (see the page log on that last link).
• Other humorous MfDs.
• This page was itself nominated for deletion, but not as a joke.
  • The nomination for deletion was nominated for deletion, which was subsequently marked for speedy deletion.
• Earth is nominated for deletion again.
  • A second user subsequently nominated the article for deletion, overwriting a non-April Fool's discussion from 2006 in the process. Silly n00bs. The new nomination is eventually restored at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (3rd nomination).
• April Fools' Day is nominated for deletion by some crazy otter.
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion is tagged for speedy deletion.
• Oscar Mayer is nominated for deletion musically. The deletion discussion is subsequently nominated for speedy deletion as spam.
• Red link is listed at Wikipedia:Deletion review.

Other

• The first ever request for signatureship is made.
• User:Juliancolton Alternative was nominated for adminship.
• The AFD Main Page was traditionally misleading.
  • Museum of Bad Art is the featured article on the main page.
  • The In the news section of the main page.
• Pedro was attacked by clones, which continued to spread madness and mayhem throughout the wiki, due to a discussion on IRC started by User:IMatthew.
• Hotel toilet-paper folding is created (Actually it was created the previous day, but it is still funny nonetheless).
• The Terminal Event Management Policy is implemented.
• Colorful edits made to User:Jimbo Wales's userpage:[2], [3], [4]
• User:Marlith Rick Rolled the Wikipedia Main Talk Page (diff)
• Several 'new ideas' were nominated at Motto of the day.
• Wikipedia:Featured redirects
• A proposal was made to close the English Wikipedia.
• TheRetroGuy created a new national day.
• The DYK section, as it appeared on April Fools'.
• Skynet is approved to begin bot operations.
• It is officially discovered that User:J.delanoy is a bot. [5] [6]
• RFA is nominated for bureaucratship.
• User:Fahadsadah creates WHATTHEHELLISTHISPAGEITISREALLYTHELONGESTPAGEWITH265CHARACTERSWHATTHEHELLISTHISPAGEITISREALLYTHELONGESTPAGEWITH265CHARACTERSWHATTHEHELLISTHISPAGEITISREALLYTHELONGESTPAGEWITH265CHARACTERSWHATTHEHELLISTHISPAGEITISREALLYTHELONGESTPAGEWITH265CHARACTERSW, the longest title evar.
• User:JeremyMcCracken added {{notable Wikipedian}} templates for Buzz Killington, Homer Simpson, Bender, Stan Marsh, and Big Bird.

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