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@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l