Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/Future

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Guidelines for April Fools' Events
Everything should settled on and ready by March 31 (Wiki Time, UTC+0). Take all the time you need until then to discuss, organize, and put together everything you'd like to show up in the event.

Please avoid the following:

* New weapons or balance changes that are based on actual problems
* Bug fixes or game changes that address actual problems
* Anything regarding promised features or updates
* Anything regarding sensitive topics such as NFTs and current world events
Try to make something that is very obviously a joke; it is better to go over the top than to be subtle. It's fine to make fun of other Valve games as long as it's done in good spirit rather than out of malice.

Instructions

The planned topic for our April Fools' Day event in 2023 is Pirates. While we will try to stick to a main theme this time, you are free to work on whatever you want as long as it follows the rules.

Important: Unlike previous events, if no ongoing effort is made towards the actual event, it will be canceled entirely. While acceptable ideas may be repurposed in the future, please be aware that you must put in some effort if you want "the wiki" to organize an April Fools' event.

Please see our previous events to get a sense of what we're looking for:

Update procedure

The April Fools' Day event will begin at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 1st and terminate at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 2nd.

On April 1st:

  • Editors: Move April Fools' content to the main namespace.
  • Staff: Use our social media platforms to announce the fake patch.
  • Staff: Publish any YouTube videos and related content.
  • Staff/Admin: Update protected pages.

On April 2nd:

  • Editors: Move April Fools' content to the Team Fortress Wiki:April_Fools' Day/2024/ namespace.
  • Editors: Tag April Fools' content with {{Humor}} and {{April Fools|2024}}.
  • Staff: Remove YouTube videos and related content.
  • Staff/Admin: Restore protected pages.

Acceptable content

The following is allowed:

  • Original content
  • Steam Workshop content - Items from the Steam Workshop are only accepted with the creator's express consent.
  • Content based on Valve games
  • Content based on third-party media (case by case) - Fake promotional items are allowed as long as they're not direct copies of the originals and do not put us or Valve in legal trouble.
  • Off-wiki content (update pages, playable TF2 content, videos, fan-games, etc)

Adding new ideas

  1. Check to see if your ides satisfies the criteria listed under Guidelines for April Fools' Events and Acceptable content.
  2. Create a new new section to the Ideas section below.

Note: If your proposal introduces a new item or game mechanic, be prepared to write a wiki article about it. While this is a collaborative effort, don't expect other users to do your work.

Voting

  1. Vote for your preferred ideas by posting a Pictogram plus.png + ({{c|+}}) or Pictogram minus.png - ({{c|-}}) in topic.
  2. To be considered, an idea must receive at least 2 Pictogram plus.png + votes.
  3. Judges (wiki admins) will be able to veto or approve ideas as needed.

Ideas

Click here to add your idea
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