I was just thinking of mentionning that the AD and CE issue was the
first topic to cause a huge war on the french wikipedia, to the point we
had to block someone... which is the primary reason why I became an
admin in the first place.
ant
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Ah.....
This is really a big cultural difference, and I think there's a need of
clarification on why the system designer put "AD" here.
In Taiwan, our society doesn't have a generally speaking Christian Religion
background. In our daily life, we usually count year in the "19XX", "200X"
way as same as most parts of the world, and both in the way "year of
Republic of China". For example, I was born in the 66 "year of Republic of
China". This year is the 96 "year of Republic of China".
Whatever, the name "year of Republic of China" is another big politically
controversial issue for Taiwanese and Chinese communities all over the
world. In Wikipedia Chinese Version, there is someone named "Republic of
China 95 year". He did editing wars and got blocked several times.
Therefore, the designer just wanted to make it clearer that "Don't fill in
the number of year of Republic of China, but 19xx or 20xx". I don't think
there was any intention to cause a lift of debates.
Thanks
THD
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