What is not WP practice but should be ours, is the dates of events in times/places not using either of these systems should additional have appropriate year numbers. I conside it culturally insensitive to disscuss events in the history of Islam without providing A.H. years, at least in parenthesis. As for Roman history, to be unambiguously clear, all we need do is add A.U.C.
On 11/8/06, Phil Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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OK, from the nature of the responses here, I'm going to use BCE/CE for my major edits and any new articles and then respect other's usage of BC/AD when I'm proofing articles that use that system. Seeing that BCE/CE is possibly still new to some people, I will add a footnote explaining such dating systems when needed.
I'm quite happy to change that if we reach some sort of different consensus, BTW.
The topic seemed worthwhile to me, because many of the articles I will be working on span the birth of Christ.
Now all I have to do is work out how to give birth and death dates for Julius Caesar... the bugger was born under the old Roman calendar and died shortly after his introduction of the Julian Calendar, neither of which make any sense compared to the Gregorian calendar (July anyone...or even 'Augustus'?).
Beware the Ides of March indeed!
Cheers,
Phil.
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