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

Wed Sep 6 03:37:26 UTC 2006

   I thought it was original research (or perhaps revisionist history) 
to claim that Christianity was not (at least sufficiently) dominant for 
BC/AD to be the norm for a very long time and thought out most of the world?

   As to Arabic, Chinese etc. calenders.  I thought just assumed that 
those would be used on the wikipedias in those languages.  Is using 
English POV, what about the norms (the result of history) of the English 
speaking world?

SKL

Akash Mehta wrote:
> But isn't that taken for granted, that we must blindly accept, while
> accepting as little as possible, that Christianity is the dominant
> religion?
> 
> On 9/5/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>> Falls appart when you considder the islamic calender and the like
>> cuases simular problems for CE.
>>
>>
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>> geni
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