Talk:North Star

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Wtf?? This article implies there were people at 3000 BC which called Thuban with the title of North Star. That needs a serious explanation..... --euyyn 23:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

No it doesn't - it merely says that the title belonged to Thuban at that time. Thuban was the North Star of that time whether anyone called it that or not. Orcoteuthis (talk) 16:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

BCE

What needs further explanation is why the author used the term BC instead of BCE. Christianity is a single view point and the source of millions of deaths world wide. Let us start having compassion for all cultures and use BCE: Before the Common Era.

Peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmlarios (talk • contribs) 06:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I think this discussion is already held somewhere in the policy pages. I'd say a consensus was reached, although cannot recall what it was. --euyyn (talk) 16:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

The so-called common era is just the Christian one under another name - how can people get so worked up over under what label we are going to be Christianity-centric? If we were to be truly inclusive of other cultures, we'd begin by giving the dates in other calendars alongside the Julian/Gregorian ones. Orcoteuthis (talk) 16:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

where is the north star??

Just a question, probobly an easy one, is the north star always in the same place in the sky? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.93.5 (talk) 23:29, 16 June 2008 (UTC)