[Wikipedia-l] Re: CE / BCE (was: RFC on a few feature requests)

[Jeroen Heijmans]

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>What *is* our convention on BC / BCE and AD / CE?
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>On the en: wiki, the year, century, etc pages are called "BC", but I 
>think a majority of articles use "BCE".
>I bumped into an article specifically about the naming system, which 
>states that "BCE" and "CE" are now preferred, in general.
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>perhaps we should take our own advice?
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I think we should give preference to the BC/AD system. Before I found 
Wikipedia, I had never heard of the other convention, and I think BC/AD 
is still the most used and best known system - the best reason for 
preferring it over the other. However, that should be for the article 
titles, I think we should be free to use it in text if somebody wants 
to, just like we don't prefer US English over British.

Jeronimo