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It is not a great secret that, over the years, Wikipedia has seen many 'colorful' moments of fun. Also, no great secret is that Wikipedia has seen many forms of [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] ( it's true, [[WP:Vandalism|:-)]] could result in [[WP:Blocking policy|:-(]] ). Because Wikipedia lets people freely edit sources, occasionally, an edit falls into both categories: it is vandalism, needing to be reverted, but it is also creative, and some Wikipedians find it entertaining. For many years, the bits of vandalism and/or fun that struck people's fancy were kept here on a page called "'''Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense'''" ('''BJAODN'''). In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia, having been created on [[Wikipedia:Announcements 2001#January 26, 2001|January 26, 2001]].<ref>[https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/BadJokesAndOtherDeletedNonsense/980532153.html The first edit to BadJokesAndOtherDeletedNonsense via Wikipedia 10K]</ref> Here is the original explanation of the page:

{{quotation|We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sort of give the encyclopedia some lively colour. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an [[Uncyclopedia|encyclopedia of silliness]], so look forward to frequent updates of this page. ;-)]|[[User:BryceHarrington|BryceHarrington]]}}

However, in 2007, consensus (sort of) shifted against keeping most BJAODN on Wikipedia (see [[Wikipedia talk:Silly Things]]), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism. Things are no longer added to this group of pages on Wikipedia itself (except on rare occasions), but have been moved to another site, and only a few highlights are maintained below. (Please go [http://bjaodn.org/wiki/Main_Page to an external wiki] to add to BJAODN. Thank you very much.)
For all those who thought BJAODN was some sort of alien mating call or Swedish swear word, please read the things above.

==Historical content==
* [http://bjaodn.org Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense]

===Best of Jokes===
* [[Wikipedia:Best of BJAODN]]
* [[Wikipedia:More Best of BJAODN]]
* [[Wikipedia:Even more Best of BJAODN]]
* [[Wikipedia:Yet more Best of BJAODN]]
* [[Wikipedia:Still more Best of BJAODN]]

==Subpages==
* [[/Hamsteria]], hamsters decide to make their own country.
* [[/Template:Uw-delmain1]], an almost useless user warning template.
* [[/Template:Uw-toofriendly4]], similar to delmain.
* [[/Template:Uw-pissoff4]], same as toofriendly.
* [[/Template:Uwu-nothereblock]]
* [[/Outtakes of What Wikipedia is not]]
* [[/BJAODN from What Wikipedia is not]]

==Other funny articles==
* [[:Category:Wikipedia humor]]
* [[m:Category:Humor]], a far-out selection of, like, ''meta''-topics that totally ''transcend'' the English Wikipedia, man.
*  [[User:ThatPeskyCommoner/The Unofficial WikiZoo|The Unofficial WikiZoo]] Provides a permanent home for the strange fauna of WikiLand.
* [[Wikipedia:April Fools]] – Once a year, some Wikipedians seem to lose their minds
* [[Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Helpdesk Emails]] – Mailing list oddities!
* [[Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails]] – Strange Unblock requests!
* [[Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Non Deleted Nonsense]] would be BJAODN if it had been deleted.
* [[Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles]] ([[WP:DAFT]]) – Weird article titles!
* [[Wikipedia:Department of Fun]]
* [[Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars]] – Occasionally, Wikipedians get into edit wars over the most petty things
* [[Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create]]
* [[Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man]]
* [[Wikipedia:Silly Things/Wikipedia's article on George W. Bush]]
* [[WP:STORY]] – A collaborative never-ending story
* [[Wikipedia:Talk page highlights]] – Some of the strangest exchanges that have ever occurred between editors
* [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles]] – ranging from [[Death erection]] to [[The Hands of Che Guevara]]
* [[Wikipedia:Unusual place names]] – The weirdest place names in the world.
* [[Wikipedia:Unusual requests]] that have been posted to the [[Wikipedia:Village pump|village pump]] and other places.
* [[Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants]] – Stephen Colbert trolls Wikipedia!
* [[Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia cabal humor|Category:{{Redacted|The Cabal does not want you to know about the pages in this category.}}]] – If you want to know the darkest secrets of Wikipedia. Proceed at your own risk.
* [[:c:Category:Unusual signs]] / [[:c:Absurd use of road signs]]
* <del>[[:c:Category:Cursed images]]</del> – [[:c:Commons:Categories for discussion/2021/05/Category:Cursed images|deleted in 08/2022]]
* <del>[[:c:Category:Commons' weirdest photographs]]</del> – [[:c:Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/08/Category:Commons' weirdest photographs|deleted in 08/2022]]

==See also==
* [[n:Wikinews:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense|Wikinews:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense]]
* [[wikt:Wiktionary:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense|Wiktionary:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense]]
* [[Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense|Wikivoyage:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense]] and [[Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Joke articles|Wikivoyage:Joke articles]]

==Footnotes==
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