Thank you for clarifying the rules for all to see, clear guidelines are just what are needed at this time. Thanks, Matty.00711:11, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
ukexpat: Per the RfC: "There is consensus for having April Fools DYKs be clever puns rather than poop jokes and sexual innuendos" and "There is consensus against banning April Fools DYK hooks". Sven ManguardWha?07:49, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The "we're an encyclopaedia, so we hate jokes" attitude that's taken over Wikipedia in recent years is unfortunate. Nominating and re-nominating WP:BJAODN for deletion six times is one example, the repeated removal of jokes from articles specifically about an individual genre of jest (such as light bulb joke) is another. We have users who have nothing better to do than watchlist those articles just to revert all new contributions on sight, which is sad. We don't remove pictures of feces or of a penis from those respective articles, but heaven forbid that an article about jokes contain a joke. K7L (talk) 21:40, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@K7L: The alternative (extreme) is incorporating all of [1] or [2]... Each of the articles in Category:Joke cycles (and related subcats) do (or should) include example(s) that are cited, to make the topic of the article clear, but do not go beyond that (or shouldn't) lest they turn into a joke-variant compilation. Eg. You have two cows lists 6 examples cited to an article in a 1944 linguistics journal; but if someone tried to copy all the variants into that article, it wouldn't be an "article" anymore. - I listed some more potential sources on the talkpage a few years ago, if you'd like to help improve the article. :) –Quiddity (talk) 20:11, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I could cite ten broadcast engineering textbooks as WP:RS that NTSC video has long been despised as "Never Twice the Same Colour" but it would still be reverted. These are taken to Talk:Backronym to die, not to be evaluated in good faith for sources or notability to our backronym article. That talk page and article history (and those of many similar articles) are full of other examples. Any requests for sources, notability or anything else are merely pretext. The same is likely true for most or all of the other joke types. It's notable, it's properly cited but if one user doesn't like jokes it's gone... even in articles specifically about those classes of joke. K7L (talk) 02:05, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Re: Please do not nominate Earth for deletion. It's been done eight times already, and the sixth was the last time that anyone even bothered joining in on the "debate". Remember: Notability is Not Temporary.Carrite (talk) 19:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe we could apply the advice about trying something new to the day after: How about this year we skip the very traditional post-event fight about whether April Fools' Day jokes should be banned? That's happened more times than Earth has been nominated for deletion. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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