Deletion of Year 10,000 problem (3rd nomination)

Comment: Assertion of notability without proof and practically unreferenced, failing . Software has been around for 170 years (if we include the analytical engine) and this problem won’t be relevant for a couple of millennia. Anything that has to handle data in that order of magnitude today can simply use signed long long counts of milliseconds or microseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000 and avoid this problem (along with the year 2038 problem). This topic has no practical relevance except in cases of careless engineering and no recognisable theoretical relevance at all
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:A)

Comment: It's a ''speculative'' "problem" that ''might'' occur in '''seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-three years'''. And even then, it could only occur if (1) the Gregorian calendar  is still in use at that time (not a certainty) and (2) today's computers are still operational ( comes to mind). But the accuracy of the speculation isn't even the issue.  tells us that we only have articles of future events if they're both notable and verifiable. Speculation is innately unverifiable; if it could be verified it would cease to be speculative
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Complete bollocks (WP:CB||WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: It is not our role as WP editors to speculate on how likely this event is to take place.  It has received coverage from multiple, non-trivial, reliable sources, and therefore meets .  I don't see why the "External links" were discarded as "not serious" and no reason was given.  If one search did not return sufficient results, try others like http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Year+10%2C000+problem%22+-wikipedia "Year 10,000 problem", http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Year+10%2C000+bug%22+-wikipedia "Year 10,000 bug", http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Y10K+problem%22+-wikipedia "Y10K problem", and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Y10K+bug%22+-wikipedia "Y10K bug".  That gives between 1920 and 4306 ghits (the latter figure being the sum of all four, although there are bound to be duplicates
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)