Wikipedia's list of lists of lists

I'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.

Ha that took a minute to work out. Well played.

No problem. It's lists all the way down.

That's no problem until you want to list all lists of lists that do not contain themselves.

Make it a category instead and you don't have to worry either way.

Here it is, hiding inside the Russel's paradox article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Applied_ve...

Oh dang, beat me to it, ignore the other comment ;)

No problem, just add the same {{Dynamic list}} disclaimer that appears at the top of 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

Strange, your link didn't work. Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... does?

Edit: Doesn't work either. So it's probably a bug in HN.

The 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_Benevolen...

LOL good find.

Don't click on that link. It could create a black hole.

But 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.

Well, there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories

"Not to be confused with Category:Category-theoretic categories."

As 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.

I just came here to write that. :)

That's just a list though, not a list of lists.

Not to mention the lists of lisps.

lists

basically 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'.

That's not a list of lists though. So it shouldn't be included in a list of lists of lists.

Add it! That's how these lists of lists get updated.