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Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.
Office was contacted by the Council of Snowflakes about the ethnically charged term (Jerryfoolery) - but which long-term sockmaster to send to the laundry room?
Since the article appeared to one admin to still be foolly unprotected, the Wikipedaimyō were sent out to round up any remaining sandalism.
Eventually the original user (That created this page!) gave up on trying to edit because it was being ruined and now he feels unfortunate to be left out
Great Scott!
Somebody Mirrored the page
another reverted this
Before "General Tomfoolery" was even on this page, it was changed to "General Jerryfoolery".
The edit summary also stated that "General Tomfoolery" was "no longer invisible."
Then it got secretly changed back.
And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery". Edit summary: "Tom will never catch Jerry. Accept it."
Jerry was flipped upside-down for a bit before being reverted.
Then it was changed to "General Seinfeldfoolery" under the rationale "Festivus is now officially celebrated on May 22".
A request was made for permanent
WP:BLACKLOCK on this page due to an obvious edit war.
Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.
In response to the above request, the title of this section was changed to "General TomAndJerryPlusSomeSeinfeldAndABitOfGeneralRelativityfoolery" as a compromise.
This was reverted. Edit summary: Jerry will win the edit war.
The title was changed to "General Kenobi." The Jedi shall prevail! This
The title was then changed to "General CrabRave-ery" (possibly in reference to the
2018 song of the same name).
The title was changed back to “General Jerryfoolery”.
The title was changed back to General Kenobi, but he was unfortunatley demoted to Colonel.
The title was changed back to "General Tomfoolery/Jerryfoolery/[BLANK]foolery (please stop disputing over this!!)"
The title was changed to “No.”
The No was then bolded and enlarged
And then it flipped everyone off by flipping
And then it became Yes and was colored #666, only to be reverted back to "No". (This is getting intense!)
And then Smash Mouth - All Star was annihilated. Seriously?
And then the title became not a title anymore.
And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery" but "with a hint of
Crab Rave" was added.
Which was demoted to "Private First Class Jerryfoolery with a hint of
Crab Rave" for dereliction of duty.
a No. was added. It's still flipping everyone off by flipping. [5]
The "No." was converted to a "Yes!" on the grounds that Wikipedia should be a positive place.
Ben79487 went off-the-wall. Apparently, their user and talk pages were tagged with {{Humor}}, even though there was nothing funny on them. (Other than the trout, I mean.)
The
drive section on the GOCE silver star award was changed to "GOCE Palladium Award", with the edit summary "Hey I don't like Ag".[8]
All the dates on the page
Wikipedia:April_Fools'_Day were changed to April 3rd because it cleared up some "inconsistencies".
Someone tried to transclude all of the previous April Fools Day pages onto this page, but they were stopped by
MOS:QUOTATIONMARKS.
They circumvented the barrier and actually did it.
It was then flipped and later reverted.
An anonymous user transcluded this page
onto this page. It was later reverted.
All the links on this page were
changed to YouTube by an anonymous user.
LakesideMiners's
talk page was rotated by 75 degrees.
The end-all-be-all edit war began, where people who were reverting certain edits were mocked for doing so, and this page officially became a no-revert zone
This page contains material that is kept because it is considered
humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.
Please add as many pranks as possible to the appropriate section. If you don't see a section to categorize your prank in, create a new section or add it under the "other" section. Please remember to follow the
rules for fools.
Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.
Office was contacted by the Council of Snowflakes about the ethnically charged term (Jerryfoolery) - but which long-term sockmaster to send to the laundry room?
Since the article appeared to one admin to still be foolly unprotected, the Wikipedaimyō were sent out to round up any remaining sandalism.
Eventually the original user (That created this page!) gave up on trying to edit because it was being ruined and now he feels unfortunate to be left out
Great Scott!
Somebody Mirrored the page
another reverted this
Before "General Tomfoolery" was even on this page, it was changed to "General Jerryfoolery".
The edit summary also stated that "General Tomfoolery" was "no longer invisible."
Then it got secretly changed back.
And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery". Edit summary: "Tom will never catch Jerry. Accept it."
Jerry was flipped upside-down for a bit before being reverted.
Then it was changed to "General Seinfeldfoolery" under the rationale "Festivus is now officially celebrated on May 22".
A request was made for permanent
WP:BLACKLOCK on this page due to an obvious edit war.
Result was Fully Protected for a period of 9 billion years.
In response to the above request, the title of this section was changed to "General TomAndJerryPlusSomeSeinfeldAndABitOfGeneralRelativityfoolery" as a compromise.
This was reverted. Edit summary: Jerry will win the edit war.
The title was changed to "General Kenobi." The Jedi shall prevail! This
The title was then changed to "General CrabRave-ery" (possibly in reference to the
2018 song of the same name).
The title was changed back to “General Jerryfoolery”.
The title was changed back to General Kenobi, but he was unfortunatley demoted to Colonel.
The title was changed back to "General Tomfoolery/Jerryfoolery/[BLANK]foolery (please stop disputing over this!!)"
The title was changed to “No.”
The No was then bolded and enlarged
And then it flipped everyone off by flipping
And then it became Yes and was colored #666, only to be reverted back to "No". (This is getting intense!)
And then Smash Mouth - All Star was annihilated. Seriously?
And then the title became not a title anymore.
And then it was changed back to "General Jerryfoolery" but "with a hint of
Crab Rave" was added.
Which was demoted to "Private First Class Jerryfoolery with a hint of
Crab Rave" for dereliction of duty.
a No. was added. It's still flipping everyone off by flipping. [5]
The "No." was converted to a "Yes!" on the grounds that Wikipedia should be a positive place.
Ben79487 went off-the-wall. Apparently, their user and talk pages were tagged with {{Humor}}, even though there was nothing funny on them. (Other than the trout, I mean.)
The
drive section on the GOCE silver star award was changed to "GOCE Palladium Award", with the edit summary "Hey I don't like Ag".[8]
All the dates on the page
Wikipedia:April_Fools'_Day were changed to April 3rd because it cleared up some "inconsistencies".
Someone tried to transclude all of the previous April Fools Day pages onto this page, but they were stopped by
MOS:QUOTATIONMARKS.
They circumvented the barrier and actually did it.
It was then flipped and later reverted.
An anonymous user transcluded this page
onto this page. It was later reverted.
All the links on this page were
changed to YouTube by an anonymous user.
LakesideMiners's
talk page was rotated by 75 degrees.
The end-all-be-all edit war began, where people who were reverting certain edits were mocked for doing so, and this page officially became a no-revert zone