[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Tue May 17 09:53:27 UTC 2005

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Skyring wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Skyring wrote:
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>>>On 5/16/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Skyring wrote:
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>>>>>On 5/16/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>Skyring wrote:
>>>>>>[snip]
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>>>>>>>CE/BCE is already a standard in many disciplines. Make it so in WP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>...except where use of BC and AD is appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>As Steven said "a general policy that BC and AD represent a
>>>>>Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate,
>>>>>that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a
>>>>>Christian point of view."
>>>>>
>>>>>I support his standard. I think it is plain common sense. Don't you?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Reading the proposed policy page, a poll of *44* people - out of however
>>>>many million speakers of English, *44* - decided that BCE/CE was the
>>>>more favoured term. That's a mighty poor sample. And yet people are
>>>>claiming "NPOV" and "countering systematic bias".
>>>
>>>
>>>Just answer the question, please. Evasion just leads me to wonder
>>>about your motive.
>>
>>Evasion is caused by me actually reading the page and trying to work out
>>what is really going on. I'm not so sure that BCE and CE are any less
>>POV than AD and BC are. In fact, I'm starting to wonder whether they are
>>in fact anti-Christian POV.
> 
> 
> Just answer the question, please.
> 

You mean whether it's plain sense or not? No, it's not. It's actually
/more/ POV than BC/AD is, because it makes the *assertion* that the
Birth of Jesus, whether is Christ, Lord, Prophet or otherwise, is
*common* to *all* cultures - it's Western Imperialism and Political
Correctness at its worst.

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