I agree. This serves no useful purpose. Either cut it or make it a redirect to an actual trope like Recursive Reality.
A Recursion joke isn't necessarily Shaped Like Itself, though.
Don't see much of a value in it, though. Maybe as a Useful Note, but that'd be about it.
Check out my fanfiction!The only use I see is as a joke page. For what it's worth, it was already up for a cut vote before
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And the admin himself said "No harm, and a little funny. Cut request declined."
EDIT: It IS self-demonstrating, as the link at the bottom of the page shows.
Also, the "cutlist denied" request was made before Damian Yerrick added the current description in 2012.
(Previously, it was literally "See Recursion.")
Coming to think about it, the article before Damian Yerrick's edit was even more funny than Damian's edit afterwords.
Therefore, suggesting a revert to this:
edited 9th Feb '14 2:02:43 AM by KarjamP
Well, if we are going to keep it because Eddie thinks it is clever, we should at least put it on the Just for Fun index.
Bumping to ask if we agree with reverting the page and add it to the Just for Fun index.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
If it was, why, at one stage, did Fast Eddie state that the article can be kept because "it's funny"?
Granted, the trope's description at that time was literally "See Recursion". It's only when someone wanted to "flesh it out" with irrelevant information that killed the joke that we are suggesting for a revert to the former description.
+1 to flip it back to "See Recursion" and move it to Just for Fun.
I've added this to the Just for Fun index.
Should we connect this in some way to Recursive Index Index?
edited 13th Mar '14 5:07:49 AM by Catbert
I reverted it to "See Recursion" per the loose consensus. Are we done?

For actual recursion jokes, we have Shaped Like Itself already. This is just a mathematical defintion of recursion, not a trope. The only index it's on is "Self-demonstrating article", which doesn't even fit.
Every inbound link suggest that it's just being misused for Shaped Like Itself. I say cut.