[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Tue May 17 17:23:46 UTC 2005

Question: How would one denote a Jewish year, such as 5765? 5765 ACW?
(After Creation of World)? 5765 Year of HaShem? 5765 Jewish Year? Hebrew
year 5765?

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Stephen Bain wrote:

> Alphax wrote:
> > >
> > > CE/BCE is already a standard in many disciplines. Make it so in WP.
> > >
> >
> > ...except where use of BC and AD is appropriate. Would you have us
> > convert every instance of something being measured in feet, inches,
> > fathoms, chains, pounds, ounces, psi and the like to its metric equivalent?
> >
> > You can't impose a blanket policy where the usage is dependent on
> > context. Like naming conventions, there *are* exceptions to the rule.
> >
>
> It would be wonderful if Wikipedia converted completely to the metric
> system, or perhaps [[SI]] ("the most widely used system of units").
> Perhaps units should be referred to the Countering Systemic Bias
> Wikiproject.
>
> As for the use of BC and AD, it is indeed perfectly appropriate in
> articles about Christianity-related topics, just as the use of the
> Hebrew, Hindu or Chinese calendars is appropriate in articles related
> to those topics.
>
> Nevertheless, a standard for articles not based on those topics would
> be useful, and CE/BCE seems to be the least POV and easiest to
> implement out of the options available.
>
> --
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
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