The X-Y Problem

Re:The X-Y Problem by unwind on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:56PM (#34445497)

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/

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Re:The X-Y Problem by prettyStandard on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:06PM (#34445621)

Based on these two/four links,

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=info

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=recall&rev=1

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://xyproble...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140908180346/https://xyproblem...

Definitely seems to be wooledge when you follow the linked sources as well.

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Re:The X-Y Problem by mcdoogal on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:03PM (#34445582)

Your 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.

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Re:The X-Y Problem by bananapub on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:19PM (#34445743)

this 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

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