[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Stan Shebs shebs at apple.com
Mon May 16 18:56:29 UTC 2005


BJörn Lindqvist wrote:

>AD and BC might be offensive to some, who knows what the abbrevations
>actually mean. Good stuff that so few know about it. But what ACTUALLY
>MUST be extremely offensive to a huge number of people is the
>imperialist use of the word "American." Therefore, if we change all
>instances of AD/BC, shouldn't be also change all instances of
>"American" to something that will not offend the majority of all
>Americans?
>  
>
Heh, that one has already been fought over a bunch of times.

It needs a standard template, for instance "{{horse carcass 352}}"
that will link to the category of all related pages.

:-)

Stan




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