[WikiEN-l] Shouldn't we change BC->BCE?

[tarquin]

Anthere wrote:

>among others, see
>http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-October/thread.html
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>and
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>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Centuries
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snip from that page:

 > Using the terms BCE and CE are not obfuscatory nor are they fads. 
More and more scientific and scholarly works rely on this nomenclature, 
because they manage to accept convention (e.g. non-Christians and 
Christians alike use the same calendar) without privileging Christ or 
the belief in the divinity of Jesus. <

I would probably be in favour of "BCE", but I am not an historian, so 
I'm not in a position to assess how much "BCE" is used by academics 
compared to "BC" -- but that should probably be our guide.

- t