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Wikipedia’s “List of lists of lists” contains itself

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 01, 2026
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Wikipedia has thousands of list articles. Some of those lists catalog other lists. And one article, “List of lists of lists,” catalogs the lists of lists. It’s exactly as recursive as it sounds: the page includes itself in its own index.

The article serves as a navigation hub for Wikipedia’s many list-of-list pages, organized by…

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