In the interests of adding to instruction creep :-), we ought to have some ground rules for April Fool's, maybe make a contest out of it, for instance the winner is the hoax that goes the longest without being detected. For instance:
- New articles only, we continue to be humorless about edits to existing articles.
- Article must be created on 1 April, between 00:00 and 23:59 UTC.
- Detection is by the addition of a special template by an editor, who must also add on the talk page the evidence that the article is a hoax.
- The winner is the one with the longest time between creation and detection.
- Undetected hoaxes must be marked by their creator by the end of April 2; they are also counted as winners.
- Winners get moved to WP: namespace, have " (April Fool 2005)" added to the title (in case of inadvertant links from elsewhere), all internal links removed, and are added to a list of winners linked to from BJAODN or some such.
- Losers are deleted sometime on April 2.
The rules page can be on meta somewhere, linked from a couple relevant places. It works to have it be advertised; more of a challenge to include references etc that can fool a thousand editors already on the outlook for fiction that day.
Stan
All those takeing part will then be banned indefinetly under the dissruption rule (and for doing it on the worng day sometimes timezones have thier good points).