Talk:List of philosophers born in the centuries BC

I would like to propose renaming this list to List of philosophers born in the centuries B.C.E.. See the article B.C.E.. I don't think the dating system should be christocentric. Comments?--Anthony Krupp 12:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Why not? Change away. Before you do that though, you'll have to track what pages already link to this one as "BC" so you can change them to "B.C.E."Non-vandal 13:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Here're the other pages, not manyNon-vandal 13:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC):

• List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy
• List of philosophers born in the twentieth century
• List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century
• List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century
• List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century
• List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
• List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries
• List of philosophers born in the first through tenth centuries
• Lists of philosophers

In table sortable by year born?

In my own fork, I have started something like so and wondered if it would be useful in Wikipedia:

c. ignored; where only fl. is known, +-20; where only birth, +20; where only death, -20; multiple dates use largest span

Philosophers BC

Name (dates)	Birth	Death	Location	School	Known for
A
Aenesidemus, (1st century BC)[d]	100 BC	1 BC
Alcibiades, (c. 450-404 BC)	450 BC	404 BC
Alcmaeon of Croton, (5th century BC)[b][c][d][e]	500 BC	401 BC
Anacharsis, (6th century BC)	600 BC	501 BC
Anaxagoras, (died 462 BC)[a][b][c][d][e]*	482 BC	462 BC
Anaxarchus, (fl. 340 BC)[d]	360 BC	320 BC
Anaxilaus, (1st century BC)	100 BC	1 BC
Anaximander, (c. 610-c. 546 BC)[a][b][c][d]	610 BC	546 BC
Anaximenes of Miletus, (585-525 BC)[a][b][c][d]	585 BC	525 BC
Andronicus of Rhodes, (c. 70 BC)[a]	90 BC	50 BC
Angiras, (c. 11th century BC)	1100 BC	1001 BC
Anniceris, (fl. 300 BC)[a]	320 BC	290 BC
Antiochus of Ascalon, (c. 130-68 BC)[a][b][c][d][e]	130 BC	68 BC

• Antiphon, (480-403 BC)^[d]

... and so on

There is no corresponding timeline. The table starts off as an alphabetical index, but I find the ordering my dates is more useful for my analysis. The other column headers could be changed...

This suggestion applies to similar lists, where list or index may no longer be an ideal term. Dpleibovitz (talk) 20:37, 9 September 2018 (UTC)