Talk:Johann Heinrich von Mädler

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move to Johann Heinrich von Mädler

This has been cut-and-pasted to Johann Heinrich von Mädler. It should be properly moved there to preserve the history, but only an admin can do it. - Algebraist 13:15, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cut-and-paste move repaired; no intervening edits lost. HAND. –Hajor 14:54, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit for language usage

This article displays an awkward use of English. Perhaps it was written by someone to whom English was a second language. I recommend that a native English speaker rewrite it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexselkirk1704 (talk • contribs) 12:34, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Such prejudice is unwelcome. It is better to have what was written by someone knowledgeable than to risk errors in "translation". 94.30.84.71 (talk) 14:44, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Prejudice"?? This is the English-language edition of Wikipedia. Broken English is rightly as undesirable here as broken German should be in the German-language edition, etc. If a piece of text was obviously written by someone not at home in the language being used, then it is self-evidently an inexpert translation by that author of what they meant to say and the risk of errors which you abhor has already been run. AVarchaeologist (talk) 10:43, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The conventional tropical year according to von Mädler

Article has "but then, first proposed by von Mädler himself, a new 128-year rule for additional common years. (The only odd thing in Mädler's proposal was, that neither the year 1900, nor 2028, 2156 etc. [=1900 +128 +128...] were themselves divisible by 128.) / But (according to von Mädler) if the years 3200, 6400, 9600, 12,800, 16,000 and so on are NOT leap years ... ". Observe that, if the 128-year rule were applied to years divisible by 128, then 3200, etc., would already be common years. The apparent duplicate effect would lead to confusion. Perhaps the 128-year rule should apply to years which are an odd multiple of 64 - 1984, 2112, etc. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 14:43, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]