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Wikipedia's list of lists of lists
- atuljangra 15y agowhat is it about ?
- stfu 15y agolists
- hc8217 15y agobasically everything on wikipedia is ordered into lists. many of those lists are further organized into lists of lists. those lists of lists are organized in this article and its a list of lists of lists. for example one of the lists of lists on 'list of lists of lists' is 'lists of american films' and one of the lists there is 'list of american films of 1900' which contains, among others, 'Clowns Spinning Hats'. I actually found one list of lists of lists on 'list of lists of lists'. 'Lists of Americans' > 'Lists of African Americans' > 'List of African American Jurists' > 'Dennis Archer'. Going to see if I can find another and create the epic 'list of lists of lists of lists'.
- IChrisI 15y agoYou can put the list of lists of lists on your list of lists of lists of lists. Also, 'Isotope lists' > 'Isotope lists, 0-24' > 'Isotopes of Helium' > 'Helium-2' though I don't know if that counts.
- drcube 15y agoList of lists of lists of lists: https://www.google.com/search?q=lists+of+lists+of+lists https://www.google.com/search?q=lists+of+lists+of+lists
- bbrizzi 15y agoI'm still waiting for the list of lists that do not contain themselves.
- bwarp 15y agoHa that took a minute to work out. Well played.
- danh 15y agoNo problem. It's lists all the way down.
- perlgeek 15y agoThat's no problem until you want to list all lists of lists that do not contain themselves.
- swordswinger12 15y agoMake it a category instead and you don't have to worry either way.
- ufo 15y agoHere it is, hiding inside the Russel's paradox article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Applied_versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Applied_ve...
- jhuckestein 15y agoOh dang, beat me to it, ignore the other comment ;)
- JoshTriplett 15y agoNo problem, just add the same {{Dynamic list}} disclaimer that appears at the top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers: "This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries." That'll also add it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Incomplete_lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Incomplete_lists
- daviddaviddavid 15y agoThis is all fun and games until Russell's paradox rears its ugly head.
- bjoernbu 15y ago... is as incomplete as most lists are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths is missing, for instance.
- ElliotH 15y agoThat's not a list of lists though. So it shouldn't be included in a list of lists of lists.
- paraschopra 15y agoAdd it! That's how these lists of lists get updated.
- toyg 15y agoI'm surprised it doesn't yet include this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledges_Taxonomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen... I guess this is a list of lists of things who do not belong to the Emperor. EDIT: now realized it's a list of lists of lists. Somebody should create a list of Borges' lists, then, including the aforementioned.
- eru 15y agoStrange, your link didn't work. Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledges_Taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... does? Edit: Doesn't work either. So it's probably a bug in HN.
- Tangurena 15y agoThe apostrophe has been deleted from your link. I suspect some anti-SQL-injection code ate it. %27 should be the appropriate escape character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge%27s_Taxonomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...
- joshuahedlund 15y agoLists, yes, but what about categories? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chefs_who_committed_suicide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chefs_who_committed_su...
- morsch 15y agoWell, there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories "Not to be confused with Category:Category-theoretic categories."
- smickie 15y agoOne of my favorites was missing from the Animals section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent_diplomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent...
- RandallBrown 15y agoThat's just a list though, not a list of lists.
- omarqureshi 15y agoContains a "List of lists of national institutions and symbols" - listception.
- JoelMcCracken 15y agoIn other news, data can be listed in a hierarchal manner.
- Kutta 15y agoWell, the awesome Yvain (aka Scott Siskind) must be mentioned here, since he made years ago a list of lists of lists of lists. http://www.raikoth.net/lololol.html http://www.raikoth.net/lololol.html Please heed the warning in the bottom.
- joezydeco 15y agoDoes this page exist in the other languages? Can we go a level up?
- kwamenum86 15y agoAs someone else in this thread mentioned, the page has a link to itself in the L section, which means that we can't (and don't need to) go a level up. Like any good metalist, this list contains itself.
- rufibarbatus 15y agoNext up: a list of lists that do not contain themselves (Punchline drumroll.)
- kwamenum86 15y agoHa. That's actually pretty funny. To state the obvious: that's impossible. If the list omits itself, it's incomplete. It it includes itself, it's invalid.
- lsb 15y agoThanks, Bertrand, for clearing that up.
- dctoedt 15y ago> (Punchline drumroll) I believe the musical term is "sting" -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(percussion) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(percussion)
- neilk 15y agoIt's been on Wikipedia for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_which_do_not_include_themselves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_which_do_not_incl... And it actually does something useful.
- wxs 15y agoOf course, that set contains itself: scroll to L and there's a self-reference.
- kenrik 15y agoLOL good find.
- erickhill 15y agoDon't click on that link. It could create a black hole.
- LearnYouALisp 15y agoBut it's a list of lists of lists, so it should only contain lists of lists--well, by the strict definition, a nested list is still a list. So, technically I suppose it can be there, but it reads as list of (lists of lists), where the depth of each level is clearly shown.
- joejohnson 15y agoI wish someone would compile a list of links to these sorts of pages...
- johnarras 15y agoBut where's the page that contains a list of links to all pages that don't contain links to themselves?
- martincmartin 15y agoI just came here to write that. :)
- adam_freidin 15y agogoogle page rank v.s. wikipedia... round 1, FIGHT!
- josscrowcroft 15y agoThat is so incredibly meta.
- redthrowaway 15y agoI was sad to see that List of lists of lists of lists was created, but deleted. Arbitrary limits on tree depth make me a sad coder. Given that this is clearly a tree, I'd prefer they just have a WP:Lists, with each of the relevant groupings of lists listed there, and so on.
- baddox 15y agoI've always thought that the last step should be "Lists of non-list items" to ensure that, among other things, lists don't contain themselves.
- jhuckestein 15y agoLet's start a [edit: complete] list of lists of lists that don't contain themselves
- iso8859-1 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/List_of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/List_of
- niels_olson 15y agoWhile you're all punning away in a recursive delirium, I think it's worth noting the distinct absence of science topics: lists of proteins? lists of genes? lists of algorithms? lists of particles? lists of reactions? And, my favorite: lists of catalysts?
- PhilipG 15y agoNot to mention the lists of lisps.
- bitwize 15y agoYo dawg, I heard you like lists!