While I understand that this issue has been visited more than once before, and that some may be irritated with digging it back up, but I feel that the indecisiveness regarding whether to favor either
AD or
CE on Wikipedia needs to end. Or, at the very least, I think we need to form a compromise that would dictate the use of one era notation for certain topics only (ex. Common Era for non-Christian religion-related articles)
, and the other notation elsewhere. The current recommendation—to use whichever notation you'd like as long as you are consistent within an article and do not arbitrarily change from one notation to another—isn't working. There are a couple of problems with it that I'm coming across quite a bit lately:
I'm hoping to gather some responses and comments about these issues, and perhaps we would be able to flesh out our thoughts on what type of solution we want to go ahead with, if any.
My proposed solutions would be: (1) AD/BC ubiquitously; (2) CE/BCE ubiquitously (this would require moving all BC year articles, ex. 1 BC, 1st century BC); or (3) One notation for specifically outlined articles, and the other notation for the remainder of articles. Thank you for reading and replying. — CIS ( talk | stalk) 16:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
While I understand that this issue has been visited more than once before, and that some may be irritated with digging it back up, but I feel that the indecisiveness regarding whether to favor either
AD or
CE on Wikipedia needs to end. Or, at the very least, I think we need to form a compromise that would dictate the use of one era notation for certain topics only (ex. Common Era for non-Christian religion-related articles)
, and the other notation elsewhere. The current recommendation—to use whichever notation you'd like as long as you are consistent within an article and do not arbitrarily change from one notation to another—isn't working. There are a couple of problems with it that I'm coming across quite a bit lately:
I'm hoping to gather some responses and comments about these issues, and perhaps we would be able to flesh out our thoughts on what type of solution we want to go ahead with, if any.
My proposed solutions would be: (1) AD/BC ubiquitously; (2) CE/BCE ubiquitously (this would require moving all BC year articles, ex. 1 BC, 1st century BC); or (3) One notation for specifically outlined articles, and the other notation for the remainder of articles. Thank you for reading and replying. — CIS ( talk | stalk) 16:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)