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Whilst I completely understand your points Sol, the suggestion of 1,000 CE as a cut off is for purely practical reasons. Without a cut-off, we'd end up having to write every date up to today with "CE" at the end. Whilst this is | Whilst I completely understand your points Sol, the suggestion of 1,000 CE as a cut off is for purely practical reasons. Without a cut-off, we'd end up having to write every date up to today with "CE" at the end. Whilst this is not a problem ''per se'', it is somewhat cumbersome to have to write "21 February 2019 CE." My suggestion of 1,000 CE as the cut-off date was given so as to avoid any bias towards particular cultural relevance. | ||
As you yourself pointed out, different cultures consider different years CE to be the start of a "new age", and there is no way we would be able to find a specific date that satisfies all cultures, and we can't have multiple cut-off dates depending on the article subject in question as that would be, simply put, anarchic. On the otherhand, almost all cultures globally recognise and utilise (to varying degrees) the Common Era dating system, and given that 1,000 CE is, rounded down, the mid-point between BCE and today, I considered it to be the most practical cut-off point. | As you yourself pointed out, different cultures consider different years CE to be the start of a "new age", and there is no way we would be able to find a specific date that satisfies all cultures, and we can't have multiple cut-off dates depending on the article subject in question as that would be, simply put, anarchic. On the otherhand, almost all cultures globally recognise and utilise (to varying degrees) the Common Era dating system, and given that 1,000 CE is, rounded down, the mid-point between BCE and today, I considered it to be the most practical cut-off point. | ||
@Francesco75: I'm not entirely sure what any of that has to do with the proposal at hand. | @Francesco75: I'm not entirely sure what any of that has to do with the proposal at hand. | ||
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Whilst I completely understand your points Sol, the suggestion of 1,000 CE as a cut off is for purely practical reasons. Without a cut-off, we'd end up having to write every date up to today with "CE" at the end. Whilst this is not a problem per se, it is somewhat cumbersome to have to write "21 February 2019 CE." My suggestion of 1,000 CE as the cut-off date was given so as to avoid any bias towards particular cultural relevance.
As you yourself pointed out, different cultures consider different years CE to be the start of a "new age", and there is no way we would be able to find a specific date that satisfies all cultures, and we can't have multiple cut-off dates depending on the article subject in question as that would be, simply put, anarchic. On the otherhand, almost all cultures globally recognise and utilise (to varying degrees) the Common Era dating system, and given that 1,000 CE is, rounded down, the mid-point between BCE and today, I considered it to be the most practical cut-off point.
@Francesco75: I'm not entirely sure what any of that has to do with the proposal at hand.