On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jeroen Heijmans wrote:
What *is* our
convention on BC / BCE and AD / CE?
On the en: wiki, the year, century, etc pages are called "BC", but I
think a majority of articles use "BCE".
I bumped into an article specifically about the naming system, which
states that "BCE" and "CE" are now preferred, in general.
perhaps we should take our own advice?
I think we should give preference to the BC/AD system. Before I found
Wikipedia, I had never heard of the other convention, and I think BC/AD
is still the most used and best known system - the best reason for
preferring it over the other.
I agree that it's the best known system, however most modern works use
BCE/CE and that's what I was taught at school.
I tend to use whatever is appropriate for the article in question, for
instance articles related to the Christian world use AD/BC, those
related to Arab world I've used the AH calender with CE/BCE date in
brackets, etc.
Imran
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