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When I was the most active on Stack Overflow, the recommended link for a description of the XY problem was [1]. This was (is?) commonly used in a comment to tel
by unwind 4y ago
When I was the most active on Stack Overflow, the recommended link for a description of the XY problem was [1]. This was (is?) commonly used in a comment to tell a poster that their question seems dubious, and might not get high-quality answers.
Now I see that it seems to be a more or less exact copy of the OP, which is kind of confusing. Does anyone know the background/ownership?
[1]: https://xyproblem.info/ https://xyproblem.info/
- mcdoogal 4y agoYour URL (which I've also seen and referenced a lot) sources the OP link at the bottom as "Source 2", so it at least seems the OP link predates this one.
- prettyStandard 4y agoBased on these two/four links, https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=info https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=info https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=recall&rev=1 https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=recall&rev=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://xyproblem.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://xyproble... https://web.archive.org/web/20140908180346/https://xyproblem.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140908180346/https://xyproblem... Definitely seems to be wooledge when you follow the linked sources as well.
- bananapub 4y agothis link is from a (at least in the past) very active person on various IRC Linux and programming help channels who wrote the wiki article at least fifteen years ago. make that sixteen years ago: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=info http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=info