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CE is common usage for Common Era, Current Era, or Christian Era (this year is CE). This notation is functionally equivalent to Anno Domini. Other usages: * Capillary electrophoresis * Civil Engineer (Engineer's degree in civil engineering) * Civil engineering * Communaut� Europ�enne (French for European Community) * the CE logo is a stylized "CE" placed on products to signify conformance with European Union regulations * Computer engineering * Concord EFS Inc. (stock symbol) * Consumer electronics * Council of Europe * Nationwide Airlines (IATA code; based in South Africa) * Sri Lanka, NATO country code up to the 7th edition; (from ''Ceylon'') ::''Note'': from the 8th edition, the NATO country code for Sri Lanka is ''LKA'', in accordance with ISO 3166-1. * Collector's Editon (Used with special editions of software and movies) * Central European, as in an alternate name for Windows-1250. * Customer Edge, a term used in MPLS computer networks. * Customer Engineer, the person that services IBM computers. * A shortened reference to Windows CE Ce may stand for: * Cerium (symbol for the chemical element) ce may stand for: * Chechen language (ISO 639 alpha-2) Lists of two-letter combinations

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Also note the politically correct tendency is to use the abbreviation "C.E." (Common Era) and "B.C.E" (Before Common Era). These abbreviations are an attempt to avoid the religious connotations of the Latin abbreviation. In spite of the name change, B.C.E. and C.E. still divide history according to the life of Christ. [http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/documents/Latin_Abbreviations.pdf] some readers may be surprised that I have retained the essentially Christian system of dates "B.C." and "A.D." instead of the increasingly popular "Common Era" or "C.E." and "B.C.E." This is because the "Common Era" is common to Jews and Christians but still excludes Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. It is therefore is a very misleading term. For this reason I prefer the traditional Western usage to a modern innovation which does not even have the saving grace that it developed in a homogeneous society. [http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/concise/PREFACE.html] ---- Anyway, there's a lot of overlap between the CE and Common Era articles. I think we should merge them. --User:Ed Poor ---- With all due respect, Ed, this is, in my view, a classic example of the way the term "politically correct" is misused, and in my view it is a smear against people who happen to think that CE is better than AD. I would point out that, from a religious perspective, AD is not common to Jews and Christians, since Jews couldn't give a rat's ass about the birth of Christ. It is "common" not in the religious sense, but in the sense that just about everyone in the West, regardless of whether they are Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or atheists, use this calendar, and furthermore I believe that it has become fairly commonly used throughout the world, not just in the West; and in any case it really has nothing to do with the birth of Christ in reality since nobody knows when he was born and it probably wasn't in year 1. Thus, far from being misleading, it is both a much more respectful and accurate term, since it isn't actually the "year of the Lord"--certainly not for Jews, who use it but don't consider Jesus their "Lord", nor for Christians, since it doesn't actually represent the date that their "Lord" was born. User:soulpatch :The argument that I've always subscribed to, and I don't think its been mentioned here, is that there is an excellent reason to use BC and AD as opposed to CE and BCE. With CE and BCE we use Jesus' birth (approximate) as a dividing line for no good reason AND with no historical context for why we do so. With BC and AD we still use the same dividing line but at least it is OBVIOUS as to why. It seems the PC posse dropped the ball on this one. As long as the dividing line is "biased" by being Christian-centric it seems appropriate that it be CLEAR that it is biased. Calling it BCE and CE just makes things more confusing. At least if its AD everyone KNOWS that the Christian mode is prominent. --User:Dante Alighieri 21:56 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC) : The issue isn't that the dividing line is somehow based on Christianity. Nobody cares about that. The issue isn't what dividing line we use, which can be anything at all, but how whether we choose to give it an explicitly religious reference whenever we mention dates. So what if the original purpose Christian? Why make that more prominent? The original purpose can easily be just as irrelevant and lost in the mists of time as any other origin related to the calendar, including the names of the months, or the etymologies of words, or whatever. The issue is how we continue to refer to those dates today. User:soulpatch ::Ack. My fault for posting it to both articles, we need to chose one article and stick to it for now. :) --User:Dante Alighieri 22:08 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC) Perhaps you misunderstand, soulpatch. I only prefer AD and BC because it's what I've seen most often in my life. As you say, so what if the original purpose was Christian? I don't think we should change usage, merely because ''some scholars'' (as the article said, even before I started tinkering with it) FEEL that it forces people or excludes people. Anyway, it's not such a big issue. There are very few contexts where we have to distinguish dates with the symbols in question. Nearly all our articles simply omit the AD (or omit the CE, if that will make you happy!) when speaking of years since, say, the Enlightenment. We can always go back on the mailing list and kick it around some more... --User:Ed Poor Ed, the issue in this article is not whether we should change usage or not. I know that some people are unfamiliar with CE and BCE, and are used to using AD and BC. But you know, there are also some people who do not understand quantum mechanics and who do not know about the life of FDR or the history of the Vietnam War -- and they come to an encyclopedia in order to learn about these things. SImilarly, many scholars and many non-scholars already use BCE and CE in place of BC and AD. The encyclopedia article should not argue whether this is a good or bad thing, it should simply explain the practice for people who are unfamiliar with it or do not understand it. Isn't this what an article is about? Now, there is the other issue of what wikipedia usage should be -- I do not think this is the place to argue it, I am sure there are more appropriate places. For what it is worth, as a Jew I am offended by any one using AD or BC in a non-Christian context, and like it or not many Jews feel the same way (of course not all Jews, but then again there are some Jews who have Christmas trees too; no communicty is homgeneous and there are always exceptions -- and in this case I think it is those Jews who are not offended by AD who are the exceptions). As Soulpatch suggests, the reason the Gregorian calendar is dominant is a reflection of European domination of the world capitalist economy, and Western domination of global culture. I think it is this state of affairs, precisely, that CE is referring to, and I would expect many Muslims and Hindus to agree -- the quote from the professor at Calgary, above, is in my opinion wrong and just plain silly. User:Slrubenstein

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Hello, I'm a user at Wikipedia-nl. If you have something to tell me please use [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:CE my talkpage at nl.wikipedia] User:CE 20:23, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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==Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to the Wikipedia== Here are some links I thought useful: *Wikipedia:Tutorial *Wikipedia:Help desk *M:Foundation issues *Wikipedia:Policy Library *Wikipedia:Utilities *Wikipedia:Cite your sources *Wikipedia:Verifiability *Wikipedia:Wikiquette *Wikipedia:Civility *Wikipedia:Conflict resolution *Wikipedia:Neutral point of view *Wikipedia:Pages needing attention *Wikipedia:Peer review *Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense *Wikipedia:Brilliant prose *Wikipedia:Featured pictures *Wikipedia:Boilerplate text *Wikipedia:Current polls *Wikipedia:Mailing lists *Wikipedia:IRC channel Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you might have. The Wikipedia:Village pump is also a good place to go for quick answers to general questions. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~. Be Bold! User:Sam_Spade_User_talk:Sam_Spade_Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2004">User:Sam Spade|User:Sam Spade User talk:Sam Spade Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004 20:25, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) Hello. I need to know your email address before I can create you an account on the foundation wiki. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 19:06, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC) ==Bureaucrat== Hello Angela, sorry for bothering you again. There are still 2 dutch projects that lack a bureaucrat. I am bureaucrat at nl.wikipedia and nl.wikimedia and sysop at nl.wikibooks and nl.wiktionary. At nl.wikinews and nl.wikibooks there is no bureaucrat. Can you give me (temporary) bureaucratstatus so we can organise things ourselves? Thank you. User:CE 06:38, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Seems like you already are one at Wikinews. I've made you one temporarily at Wikibooks. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 01:38, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC) ::Thank you. User:CE 11:52, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Image source== Thank you for uploading :Image:Statue-jimbo.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you.

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