On 9/5/06, ScottL <scott(a)mu.org> wrote:
Guettarda wrote:
Actually one of the major issues in the dispute is
whether BC/AD violates
NPOV because it requires Wikipedia to make an assertion the Jesus is the
Messiah/God. BCE/CE merely describes the condition, and thus does what the
NPOV policy asks.
If I am not mistaken the beginning and ends of the months etc were
originally set up based on astrological principals. Would it violate
NPOV (since we would then be making astrological assertions) to keep
using months?
But those astrological measurements are objective and empirically
verifiable in a way that AD/BC is not, and often track significant
events, such as the changing of the pole star.
According to [[March]], the month is named after Mars the god of war.
The fact that he is the god of war is empirically verifiable?