From: Jon thagudearbh@yahoo.co.uk
First all I (and others) were doing was reverting articles back to the state they were in before SouthernComfort got to them (except for one mistake when I inadvertently changed it on [[Elamite Empire]]).
That describes your more recent actions on a relatively narrow set of articles. It does not describe your more lengthy campaign against BCE/CE notation, including in the MOS and Common Era articles themselves.
I should, as an aside, mention that I have in arguments and edit summaries to SouthernComfort referred to a "preferred notation". The context of that was not to misquote WP policy (which all participants are quite aware of), but to make the point that in practice almost all WP articles where there is a choice use BC/AD notation and that the overwhelming majority of English-writers in the world (90%+) choose BC/AD notation. It is in that sense that it is "preferred", and in that sense that I was using "preferred".
The term for what you are describing is "more common", not "preferred".
I appreciate Fred would not, on a quick and possibly non-chronological, readthrough would not have picked up that context, but that's what it was. It's important ans Fred is saying that an important aspect in this is that I was arguing my preference was WP policy - let me assure everyone, that was not the case. Bearing this in mind does Fred accept that his comment is no longer appropriate (or at least, should not in particular be directed against me)?
You made it clear the you, personally, "preferred" this usage, and attempted to enforce it on dozens of articles over a period of 8 months. I find your current explanation of "preferred" to be difficult to reconcile with your actions.
Jay.