|From: "Alexander Stephen Bradbury" bradba@bishop-perowne.worcs.sch.uk |X-Priority: 3 |Importance: Normal |X-MSMail-Priority: Normal |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:36:14 -0000 (GMT) | |Shouldn't the English Wikipedia chaqnge the BC dates, to BCE. As I'm sure |you all know, BC==Before Christ and BCE=Before Common Era. Now, surely BCE |is a better term, as it doesn't force anyone to conform to this christian |naming convention. Maybe you've already considered tihs, are there any |reasons not to make the change? | |ASB [[User:Smelialichu]] |
The acronyms may expand differently, but they don't mean anything different. Both date from the birth of Christ, the beginning of the "common era", a watershed in history that affected everyone, Christian or not.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88