Talk:-00s
Hmm[edit]
This is a weird entry. Is -00s really a suffix? Are we supposed to think about 1800s as 18 + -00s? It seems to make more sense as 1800 + -s.
If -00s is a suffix, it must be purely orthographic, because the pronunciations of 1900s (nineteen hundreds) and 2000s (two thousands) are completely different. And then you'd have to consider whether -0s is a suffix for decades, or -000s is a suffix for millennia, etc. 98.170.164.88 14:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, this is a noun entry, not a suffix. Sorry. 98.170.164.88 14:59, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
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I can't recall seeing anyone refer to the 2000s as the -00s with a dash. Usually it would be '00s or 00's with an apostrophe, or just 00s. The usage for a century seems even more unlikely, since -00s doesn't even tell you which century is being referred to. You would need the leading digits for that. I realize this is hard to search for; sorry.
In the case that this was intended as a suffix entry and not a noun entry, that makes more sense but I'm still not sure it's valid. See my comment on Talk:-00s. 98.170.164.88 15:06, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Failed. - TheDaveRoss 18:30, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
- User:TheDaveRoss: I think this was intended as a placeholder page, to avoid having a bunch of pages like 600s, 700s, etc which User:bd2412 redirected in 2017 per an RFD. If -00s is to be deleted, we need to update the redirects which currently point to it, many of which are themselves linked to by other pages. (I guess we could redirect them all to 00s? Or delete them?) I noticed this due to Special:BrokenRedirects. - -sche (discuss) 01:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
- @-sche I came across this while I was in the middle of redirecting them all to -s (I've done 1000 - 1600), but I've stopped so we can discuss the new target. I prefer -s to 00s because the latter's definition would imply that 1000s only refers to a decade. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:33, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- @ExcarnateSojourner Ah, OK. -s works. - -sche (discuss) 01:25, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Done: I've fixed all broken redirects to -00s. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:31, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
