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

[Gordon Joly]

At 15:01 +0200 5/9/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
>On 9/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
>No, it merely requires our readers to assume Jesus was born in the year 0.
>The dating method doesn't state anything about his supposed
>God/Messiah-ness.
>
>Mgm
>_


Yeah, and he was born on the 1st January in that year.


:-)

And the whole world celebrated the millennium one year early, I don't 
think we will sort this out before the heat death of the Universe!

Gordo

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