Talk:Earl of Mar

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"Bobbin' John" appears as John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar under Secretary of State for Scotland, but John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar here: please sort it out and correct Jacobitism. Thanks, dave souza 06:55, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've done a major overhaul of this page. Hopefully the double-numbering for some of the Earls should be clearer now. Proteus (Talk) 10:02, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The numbering system is messed up. You can't number from the ancient Gaelic earls, as the first is unknown and the entire number would be subject to a great deal of dispute. It is customary to begin numbering from when the title passes from the Gaelic family to the new family. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 16:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

• I've thought about this for a while - and it seems to me that this page is a very good attempt at an impossible task - creating a single page about a wide-ranging topic that really should be covered by many articles. The various 'Earls of Mar' have often nothing in common but their title, and 'some' property in 'Mar' - different families, and different properties. For example 'Bobbin John' was an Erskine and a big part of his Earldom was near Stirling. We wouldn't try to have a single article of the kings of Britain - that seems obvious - and each of them would have their own article. When it comes to the Ears of Mar - I think we need a disambiguation page that explains in detail the different creations, numbering, families, geography etc. then perhaps we could have individual articles on much smaller units - the individual families fro example WikiWriter (talk) 08:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)