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

This page containsmaterial that is kept because it is consideredhumorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

• Racism
• Deletion wasnominated for deletion perWP:RECURSION.
• Jimmy Wales wasnominated for deletion on the grounds of impersonating Jimbo.
• Donald Trump wasnominated for deletion becauseBernie Sanders is better... Like, waaaaaaay better
  • Bernie Sanders was "nominated" for deletion becauseDonald 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 wasnominated for deletion for being a complete hoax
• AOL is nominated for deletion for being 2 old.
• Delta Air Lines wasnominated for deletion because of disliking circles.
• iPhone SE wasnominated for deletion since it looks like theiPhone 3.
• Tadalafil wasnominated for deletion because of the pain.
• Windows 8 wasnominated for deletion perWP:IDONTLIKEIT.
  • Althoughthelastthree nominations have occurred, this is the first nomination to be an April Fools' prank.
• Yandere Simulator wasnominated for deletion.On her birthday!
• Twitch.tv wasnominated for deletion since Kappa.
• Virgin America wasnominated for deletion as the logo looked like boobs.
• HTTP 404 wasnominated for deletion404 RATIONALE NOT FOUND
• Undertale wasnominated for deletion on the command of Chara.
• Russia wasnominated for deletion because it is too early to give up oncommunism.
  • The report is ran over by a train after the phrase "I like trains" is muttered.
• Wikipedia gotnominated for deletion for the eighth time.
  • Which is thennominated for deletion because it isn't an April Fools' day gag without a recursive xfd.
    • Which is in turnnominated for deletion for not meeting notability requirements.
      • Which is thenflipped upside-down like a table.
• Earthwas speedied for being a hoax. Again.
• User:TenPoundHammerwas speedied for being a nonexistent user.
  • The page is thennominated for deletion, like your common article.
• TheUnited States wasnominated for deletion on the grounds that it is a hoax.
• The Rules for Fools page wasnominated for deletion for the second time on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a manual of what policies to follow.
• Vandalism on Wikipedia wasnominated for deletion on the grounds that everyone can agree that vandalism has no place on Wikipedia.
• This page was flipped upside-down, sinceit seems that's all NewWikiProfile001 knows how to do.
  • Spirit of Eagle then proceeds toflip 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 accidentlywarns himself for edits made to this page.
• Wikipedia:Mouse! wasnominated 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 wasnominated for deletion due to AT&T Stadium being closed all weekend, but also due to the fact that fans don't wantRoman Reigns as WWE World Heavyweight champion.
• Dihydrogen monoxide hoaxnominated for deletion because dihydrogen monoxide is a real issue.
• Shanghai Metro wasnominated for deletion since it is too crowded.
• Elizabeth II wasnominated for deletion as nobody has heard of this person.
• History wasnominated for deletion so we can get a fresh start.
• Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez) wasnominated for deletion because it is better whited out.
• Darth Vader wasnominated for deletion for misusing the dark side of the force.
• Lascaux wasnominated for deletion because it's still too early.
• Frozen (2013 film) wasnominated for deletion as nothing could be found through all that ice.
• History of the world wasnominated for deletion because it is not notable.
• Microsoft Windows wasnominated for deletion (twice) because of a statement from the FSF saying that it's evil.
• God wasnominated for deletion for impersonating Morgan Freeman.
• John Kasich wasnominated for deletion for not really being a presidential candidate.
• Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia was againnominated for deletion on the grounds that it is an "egregious hoax."
• Bimbo Wales wasnominated for deletion because of "taco".

• 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 isredirected and then goofed up again. (See link.)[2]
• Widr's user page was turned upside down.[3]
• The Voidwalker's user page wentsplodey.
• In a stunning display of originality,Spirit of Eagle's user page wasflipped by 75 degrees.

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

And then waschanged again.

• In the pranks by year section ofWikipedia: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 grumpyUser:David Levy decided to warnUser:Clubjustin for playing jokes.A Zilla came to eat the grumpy user up.
• Wikipedia:Copyright problemsgets tagged with a copyright violation template because the header for the page directlytakes fromthis webpage.
• Wikipedia:April fools was redirected fromWikipedia:April Fools toNever Gonna Give You Up, resulting in a number of would-be pranksters getting Rickrolled.
• An RFC was started atWikipedia:Mouse! on some impending software.
• Xkcd got sandy,
• WP:NPA Was redirected totitusfox'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.

• Fundraising announced their plans to supplement banners with VR ads
• Angle isup at an angle.
• Askew is tilted ever-so-slightly.

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

• First Jerryfoolery reference

• Wikipedia humor
• Wikipedia April Fools' Day 2016