How sweet it is
Yep, definitely Useful Note material.
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I disagree that the current text is worthy of an Useful Notes page. I'd turn the page back into "See Recursion", there is no useful use of the page otherwise.
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The page has been just a joke for a long time, being a redirect to itself until fairly recently.
I think keeping it as a JFF is better than trying to make it a UN or a trope.
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It currently reads like a Useful Note, but if it's supposed to be a Just for Fun page, then it should be classified as one. If it's a joke page, simply saying "See Recursion" works better than a mathematics lesson. Either way, using it as a trope (whether it's in potholes or plain wiki words) doesn't seem to be correct due to why it exists.
Edit: I should probably clarify that I don't necessarily mean it should be moved to the Just for Fun namespace if it's turned into a JFF page, especially because not all JFF pages use that namespace (some are in Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki, for example). In fact, I think requiring a namespace to be specified in links would make the joke's execution a bit clunky.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 15th 2018 at 5:08:30 AM
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Clock is set.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Clock is up; closing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The page on Recursion currently reads as a useful note on the mathematical concept. All of the inbound links are just cases where the word "Recursion" is used in a sentence, or potholes in sentences that happen to be recursive.
A wick breakdown:
Just linking the word "recursion" when it's used in a sentence
Potholes in sentences that describe a recursive situation
Not an example:
For tropes that actually deal with recursion in fiction, we have Department of Redundancy Department, Shaped Like Itself, Recursive Reality, Matryoshka Object, et cetera. I doubt that there are many cases where the mathematical concept would come up, but we have Useful Notes on far more obscure things. I think the best solution here is to either delete or convert to a Useful Notes.