User talk:Mackensen/Archive3

Hey, just looking at your changes to the Disraeli page. If you want to go and change all the peer references in the cabinet lists, go ahead, but when I made them, I was using an informal "Lord Name" for all Barons, Viscounts, Earls, and Marquesses, which is correct, but not the formal way of referring to them. (Dukes are always Dukes, oddly). Also, be careful about it - you changed the reference to the 15th Earl of Derby in Disraeli's second government from "Lord Derby" to "Lord Stanley" - in fact, he succeeded his father as Earl of Derby in 1869, I think. john 03:07, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I was working from Lord Blake's bio, and opted for the formal title when possible. I forget why Dukes always keep the formal title. Yes, you're quite correct about Stanley, I've no idea why I did that. I'll fix it immediately, if you didn't already. My bad.

Just to clarify something, regarding your comment on the WikiProject Peerage page. The current Earl of Derby page doesn't look like the version that it shown on the WikiProject page anymore. Mintguy 20:52, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Good call on adding the table at the top, but if you look at the later Prime Ministers you will see that they all have both types of table (they serve different purposes). This is the same the US Presidents.

Extending the PM tables to earlier PMs sounds good to me...although finding pictures of them all would be nice... john 07:36, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Be careful with putting in links to cabinet members - on the Palmerston edit there were a couple that linked to the wrong person. john 01:50, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)