[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 9/6/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote:
> maru dubshinki wrote:
> > On 9/5/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote:
> >> Guettarda wrote:
> >>> Actually one of the major issues in the dispute is whether BC/AD violates
> >>> NPOV because it requires Wikipedia to make an assertion the Jesus is the
> >>> Messiah/God. BCE/CE merely describes the condition, and thus does what the
> >>> NPOV policy asks.
> >>  If I am not mistaken the beginning and ends of the months etc were
> >> originally set up based on astrological principals. Would it violate
> >> NPOV (since we would then be making astrological assertions) to keep
> >> using months?
> >>
> >> SKL
> >
> > But those astrological measurements are objective and empirically
> > verifiable in a way that AD/BC is not, and often track significant
> > events, such as the changing of the pole star.
> >
> > ~maru
>
>    According to [[March]], the month is named after Mars the god of war.
>   The fact that he is the god of war is empirically verifiable?
>
> SKL

Are you asking if it's independently verifiable whether in Roman
times, Mars was considered the God of War? Certainly it is, pick up
any book on ancient roman mythology, and there you will find "Mars is
the God of War" somewhere in it.

This seems obvious. Why did you ask?

--Oskar