Jay jg

Making proposals for change is perfectly acceptable - and I though it was recommended in controversial areas.

My early conflicts made me realise that it was counter-productive to change articles that always use BCE/CE notation to BC/AD notation (even though it would be preferable to user a style most commonly used worldwide - as Britannica and Encarta realise). I have therefore desisted from doing so months and months ago. And not even an ArbCom in sight then!

However, I can name at least half a dozen editors, including one arbitrator, who choose to continue making arbitrary changes on articles that already use fully consistent notation. Why single me out for edits done 7 months or so ago? (Incidentally, I mention this more to ask that you calm down on me, I don't want to widen this witchhunt to more and more people - it's messy enough already.)

Jguk

From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration Committee Seeking Comment To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: BAY107-F5F564C9A34BE27067711BB0F60@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

From: Jon thagudearbh@yahoo.co.uk

Assuming you're not holding my newbie edits 9 months ago against me, I

very

quickly stopped changing articles from BCE/CE to BC/AD notation.

What about attempting to change the MOS to reflect your views months after you joined Wikipedia, and had already been involved in conflicts at the Common Era article?[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates...]

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