[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

[Rick]

--- Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the use of BC and AD, it is indeed perfectly
> appropriate in
> articles about Christianity-related topics, just as
> the use of the
> Hebrew, Hindu or Chinese calendars is appropriate in
> articles related
> to those topics.

Nonsense.  Do you want to use the Mayan calendar for
Central American articles, the date of the founding of
Rome for all dates associated with the Roman Empire? 
We should use dates that the average reader is going
to understand.

RickK



		
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