Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Date windowing
Aside from the unsourced claims above about its relevance, here are a few common searches for the term, and their utter lack of notability: 1) Google book search for ''"date window" computer science'', entire first page reveals nothing related to this topic, rather the more colloquial use of the term to describe a time-frame around a certain date, like in law or anthropology. 2) Book search for "date windowing". This is the most fruitful search. There's actually a published book reference to it, and it's mentioned in government reports. Notably though, every hit on the first page is related to Y2K. The book hits may look notable, but keep in mind in both instances there is 1 paragraph dedicated to it in books designed specifically around debugging software systems. That is, 1 paragraph in a 400 page book, and 1 subsection of a chapter in the other. The rest of the mentions are all related to Y2K issues. Simple programming workarounds used sparingly in code (as opposed to fundamental structures, like loops and control statements) are not notable enough for their own article unless there's sufficient nontrivial mentions. Moreover, it's amply covered in the Y2K article. I'm befuddled at most of the responses above since there's little |non trivial reliable sources
— User:Shadowjams, 18:57, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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