Draft:Ouroboros Article
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Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. WikiMHarpe (talk) 11:37, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
The Ouroboros Article is a thought experiment concerning the nature of information & its documentation, named after the symbolic serpent Ouroboros. It takes the form of a Wikipedia article which is about the article itself, the process of self-documentation similar to "Ouroboros' cyclic self-consumption". The thought experiment is based around the question of whether the article is a valid documentation of information, as:
- If the article was not published, there would be no instance of an article documenting itself, and thus no existing article noteworthy enough to warrant its own article.
- However, if the article was to be published, then the existence of the Ouroboros Article would be noteworthy enough to warrant its own article.
- Thus, if the Ouroboros Article documents itself, then the lack of the 'documented side' of the article prior to the creation of the 'documenting side' creates a paradox in which the article can only be a 'genuine' form of documentation after it has been published.
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