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This template was considered for deletion on 2017 April 1. The result of the discussion was "keep".

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

It has been proposed in this section that Template:April fools be renamed and moved to Template:April FoolsTemplate:April Fools. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use }. Do not use } directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

Template:April fools → Template:April FoolsTemplate:April Fools – I propose this template be moed to the new name to fit with the templates } and }. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 18:41, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the current name will be a redirect. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 18:44, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)[reply]