[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 12:58:21 UTC 2006


On 05/09/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:

> major ISSUES in the debate were, on one side, that BC/AD violated NPOV and
> on the other a mixture of "well so does BCE/CE" or "common usage trumps
> NPOV".  And, as a result, an exception was voted to NPOV.


And this shows the major WTF assertion. "Before Christ is a violation
of NPOV, because it speaks in terms of Christ, whereas Before
Christian Era ... hold on, I'll come in again."


- d.



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