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

Wed Sep 6 19:24:52 UTC 2006

ScottL wrote:

>maru dubshinki wrote:
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>>On 9/5/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote:
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>>>Guettarda wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>> 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?
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>>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.
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>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?
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We also need to abandon our days of the week.  It is clearly a breach of 
NPOV to go around celebrating a barbarian God like [[Thor]] every seven 
days.

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