I feel like this issue actually sort of encapsulates the fundamental struggle in Citizendium. We're trying to simultaneously be a citizen's compendium (which might imply the more common BC/AD) and be a more expert-driven resource (which might imply BCE/CE). I feel like we're going to have a lot of these sorts of conflicts in the weeks and months ahead.
Personally, I'd go from BC/AD just to avoid confusion. Zach On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is my first time posting but the topic is interesting so why > not reply. > > I don’t think that BCE/CE should be adopted. BC and AD are the > common terms that everyone is familiar with. I like to think that > CZ will be read by ordinary people looking for accurate > information. Using a notation from the academic field that is > relatively new and not found in most history books written in > English can be annoying for the general public. > > There is a lot of work done in the United States to secularize > anything and everything. Because of this there has been a > considerable about of bad feeling towards organizations involved. > Why push CZ into this before we even know who might be offended. > > AD and BC lack any religious meaning in my mind. Any time I want to > know what they stood for I need to look them up in the dictionary. > This is probably due too my poor Latin vocabulary. > > The names of the months of the year also originated in Roman times > and were named after Roman Gods. Should we change those too? We > wouldn’t want to offend any Non-Roman God believing people. > > Have a nice day > > Marek Zyskowski > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.marek.qc.ca > > Phil Wrote: > > All, > > Do we have a policy in place at the moment regarding Western > dating? Specifically, do we use BC/AD, as found in Wikipedia > articles or the less Christian based BCE/CE? > > Personally I'm not all that fussed, but I do prefer to use and see > "Common Era" notation, though I am aware of the confusion and > sometimes anger that it can cause. The reason I'm asking is that I > have just started to get to work on some ancient history articles, > beginning with the Flavian Amphitheatre....(though I suppose I > could in that instance use either the consular names for the year > or the date from the foundation of Roma. ;-) > > In passing, I must say it's fun having a whole article to oneself > for a wee bit....knowing that I can get up in the morning and not > have to groan at what some troglodyte has had to say about Russell > Crowe looking good as a gladiator or something, LOL. > > Cheers, > Phil. > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at marek.qc.ca > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Citizendium-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
