http://www.humantruth.info/contribute.html
We are looking for submissions on topics of rationalism, human progress, critical analysis of international affairs, and other related topics. Let us know what you want to write about, and we'll consider it!
Include references and/or inline citations to back up claims that need to be substantiated.
Spellcheck the submission.
Include a one-paragraph description of yourself which we may put on a "Contributors" page.
A minimum of four paragraphs of text.
The first paragraph should be an introduction and one-paragraph version of the whole page. Ask yourself, if my entire text was just one paragraph, what are the most important things to say?
Break the text into sections with section headers, if required. These will be used to create a contents menu after the introductory paragraph. Sections should be 3-8 paragraphs in length.
Accept that the HTF will make formatting changes and editorial changes to the markup in order to make the text web-friendly, provide linkages to other pages where appropriate, and make it compatible with HTF house style. This will only fall within the realm of aesthetics - content words will not be changed without your permission.
Submit as email text or an attached document in any common format. If we can't read the document, we'll get back to you.
Email submissions to editor@humantruth.info.
Language: English or American. Within the text, we accept a mixture of English and American phrases and spellings; likewise brief Latin, French and German phrases are accepted, but should be italicized.
Hir and hirself are accepted as gender-neutral pronouns. See: Hir and Hirself: Gender-Neutral Pronouns in English.
-isation or -ization, -ise or -ize. In English there is no conflict between words that end in ize or ization versus those that end in ise or isation. The -ize spelling is the original British English ending and predates -ise by up to hundreds of years. Nowadays it is called Oxford Spelling and is used extensively by Oxford University Press and the OED. Cambridge University Press have the opposite stance and consider -ise to be the norm. Historically, English has seen both variants used in abundance. In American, the "ize" ending is proscribed however in standard English. neither one is incorrect.
CE means Common Era1 and is the name of the most popular dating system. The current year is 2000ce.
BCE means Before Current Era1 and it counts the time before CE, counting backwards. 1BCE is the year before 1CE.
There are also two older, deprecated, denominators, used widely by Christians from the 8th century onwards2. Before this BC/AD notation became popular, the Christian church used 753BCE as the starting-point for calendars, which was the founding year of Rome2.
AD means Anno domini which means "in the year of our lord"1.
CE has the same value as AD, and BCE has the same value as BC. They are interchangeable systems. CE and BCE are the correct terms to use for reasons of fairness. Less than a third of the world is Christian, and expecting others to conform to a religious convention that is not their own is immoral - the neutral system of CE and BCE is far fairer1. Using the term "BC" and "AD" shows inconsideracy for others' feelings and beliefs (unless of course they do not know the difference (like most people), which is why I wrote this!). Choosing to use "BCE" and "CE" is to avoid endorsing any religion, and is therefore suitable for communication in the modern world.
For more, see:
The YYYY MM DD date format is the internationally agreed concise format for unambiguous dates and ought to be adopted by everyone. It is logical, with the biggest denominators being listed first (the same way as numbers, times and weights are), making it easily sortable and utterly clear. The International Organization for Standardization specification for the International Date Format is the ISO-8601 format, adopted so far by the computer industry in general (due to the advantages of sorting by dates in filenames), United Nations, commerce groups, scientific communities and some Western governments, although most individuals generally continue to use culture-specific date formats. "2005 03 29" is an example of an ISO-8601-compliant date.
For more, see: