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Programming problem

Using 2 digits for years was a conscious decision. Bugs are unanticipated, unknown issues.

Any interest in renaming this to Y2K?

I'm fairly certain this is the common name per sources. It was certainly the vernacular at the time. I haven't done any research into it, so I'm just asking informally.That man from Nantucket (talk) 04:54, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article there was originally created as a redirect to this article. There was briefly an article there about a band, but that content is elsewhere. I would argue that the redirect there is enough, but you might have an argument based on WP:COMMONNAME. Both "Year 2000" and "Y2K" eclipse "Year 2000 problem": source. I can assume the former is a reference to the year rather than the computer problem based on the long tail at the outset. If you go case insensitive, it's more convincing. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:41, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It was a convenient short form back when everyone was talking about it, but now that it is seldom discussed, I think it would confuse people to call it Y2K. Jc3s5h (talk) 12:00, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possible to change title to "Year 2000 (Y2K)" ? Would Wikipedia search find both 'Year 2000' and 'Y2K'? DEddy (talk) 12:41, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Less-than-neutral tone

This whole page reads a lot like a History Channel "documentary" script. Especially that "Fringe Group Responses" section. predcon (talk) 16:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]