I am posting this on different talk pages, and want to inform the mailing list. I want Wikipedia to accept a general policy that BC and AD represent a Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate, that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a Christian point of view. In other contexts, I argue that they violate our NPOV policy and we should use BCE and CE instead. See [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate]] for the detailed proposal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/BCE-CE_Debate
There has already been a long and contentious discussion on the Jesus talk page, and it has gotten cumbersome. It might get cumbersome to discuss this proposal here, too. Anyway, in the very early stages of the debate, someone told me that rather than argue on the Jesus talk page, I should propose to change the policy. Thus ....
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701