User talk:Psgillies

WP:ERA
Hi, Psgillies. MOS:STYLEVAR says "Edit-warring over style, or enforcing optional style in a bot-like fashion without prior consensus, is never acceptable". Apply MOS:STYLEVAR with regard to changes from one era to the other (WP:ERA). Cheers! --Omnipaedista (talk) 09:30, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Greetings Omnipaedista. Thank you for correcting me. I am not fully conversant with Wikipedia's myriad caveats. I do feel that it is preferable to switch to CE in place of AD, as AD conveys Christian bias -- which I hope you would agree has no place on Wikipedia, a site that strives to be neutral and all-encompassing. "An important reason for adopting BCE/CE is religious neutrality. Since the Gregorian calendar has superseded other calendars to become the international standard, members of non-Christian groups may object to the explicitly Christian origins of BC and AD. Particularly problematic is AD (“in the year of the Lord”), and its unavoidable implication that the Lord in question is Jesus Christ. Religious neutrality was the main rationale behind Jewish academics’ adoption of BCE/CE over a century ago, and continues to be its most widely cited justification." At any rate, when using AD (if one must?), convention has it that "BC should appear after the numerical year, while AD should appear before it." Again, thank you for flagging my misstep. I will do better in future. Regards, Psgillies (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * That is OK. Regarding the "BC should appear after the numerical year, while AD should appear before it" rule; many outlets out there follow it. On Wikipedia, that rule is optional. In general: some style preferences are mandatory (Wikipedia always avoids unnecessary capitalization), some style preferences are optional (AD vs. CE); the community avoids disputes over optional style preferences. --Omnipaedista (talk) 11:27, 21 January 2021 (UTC)