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

[Mark Wagner]

On 9/6/06, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > ScottL 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?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>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.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >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?
> > >
> > We also need to abandon our days of the week.  It is clearly a breach of
> > NPOV to go around celebrating a barbarian God like [[Thor]] every seven
> > days.
>
> A significant difference being that nobody worships the
> Norse/German/Roman gods these days

I know some neopagans who would be quite insulted by that statement.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]