hi wetman i think you've misunderstood the purpose of my edit i quite agree with what you've said i would never change the conventions of an article to suit my tastes and i never have in fact i'm a british user who has on several occassions corrected rogue british spellings for the same reason if you look carefully there were two dates one was bc and the other was bce i can't be bothered looking up the relevant guidelines now but i believe they say wikipedia doesn't have any preference except that articles should be consistent i merely changed the first date that came to hand it seems to me that you may have inadvertently done what you accused me of my edit first established a bc bce convention and you went against that an anon not me has just changed the thing back to bc now but if you want to change it to bce again go ahead i'm really not bothered but do change both dates this time however i think whoever reverted you last time would have good reason to complain if you reverted him all the best t c