Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@gmail.com) [050620 00:58]:
Can you actually provide any citations to support your position?
You mean, like papers using it?
Perhaps this is just because I am in the United States. Your rewrite makes it sound like it is only used by an insubstantial minority.
I said it needed tweaking. Call it substantial minority. And noisy.
In any case, the arbcom isn't and shouldn't be deciding if we should use AD/BC or CE/BCE as it appears the larger community has decided that the issue isn't currently clear enough and we don't care.
Well, yeah. That's why I was ignoring this - as a storm in a teacup - and why I'm appalled its advocates have tried to push it this far. Those seeking to push a POV will not be put off by content arbitration - they'll just try to use it as a further bludgeon for their views, as we see in the present case.
- d.