Template talk:April Fools
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 | This template was considered for deletion on 2017 April 1. The result of the discussion was keep. |
 | On 3 February 2026, it was proposed that this page be moved from Template:April fools to Template:April Fools. The result of the discussion was moved. |
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[edit]Wow, I am the first to write to this talk page. I haven't tried using an [April Fools!] tag, but thought it would be interesting to have a way to mark a part of an article such that it was only visible on april fools day. Is that what the [April Fools!] tag does? I guess not. For that matter, one could have a tag that allowed part of an article to only be visible on a selected day, or range of days. Gah4 (talk) 01:19, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- I was actually expecting kind of the opposite behavior, that past April 1st (modulo local timezones...), the associated text would remain, but the [April Fools!] tag would only then become visible, as per April Fools' Day public joke tradition. Otherwise the template seems rather pointless other than to spoil jokes. As for April Fools' jokes in articles per se, note the policies in Wikipedia:Rules for Fools. --Dan Harkless (talk) 15:25, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Requested move 3 February 2026
[edit]- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Thanks, 1isall (talk | contribs) 01:31, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
Template:April fools → Template:April Fools – I propose this template be moed to the new name to fit with the templates {{April Fools AfD}} and {{April Fools Day}}. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 18:41, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Also, the current name will be a redirect. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 18:44, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support While probably falling under "more trouble than it's worth", even the template text itself capitalizes "April Fools", so it's fairly uncontroversial that it should be at the capitalized name. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:20, 4 February 2026 (UTC)