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

[maru dubshinki]

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

That some Greeks and Romans believed that he was the god of war is
verifiable, yes, but that has nothing to do with what I said.

~maru