Talk:Disney family

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need to add when sharon was adopted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.94.12.65 (talk) 00:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC) Also need to add more about Sharon's life and her kids.

Died
Anyone who can confirm that Ronald William Miller, Jr. has died (in January 2013)? I found this: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/557839/Ronald-W--Miller-Jr-.html

/Rob.--Robbe2 (talk) 16:54, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Is Tim Disney a real member of this Disney family?
If so, he should be on the page. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 23:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

The article is a mess
So many unsourced claims, incorrect formatting (title case in section headings), and it looks from the edit history that at least one family member has contributed, making it highly likely that some of these claims will never be cited. I'm removing all uncited claims for living/possibly living individuals per WP:BLP. Lizard (talk) 19:27, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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Melissa Disney
Melissa Disney (born in 1970) has claimed to be a distant-relative of Walt Disney. Her mother ist Louise Gallagher (daughter of Toy Gallagher - silent movie actress in 1920s) and her father is Carl Felming. How could Melissa be a relative of Walt Disney? Are there any brothers and sisters of Walt Disneys parants, who could be ancestors of Melissa Disney ore how can it be.--Bahnfreund-94 -Talk to me 19:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 April 2019
Ronald William Miller died in Feb 2019 92.233.57.59 (talk) 15:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I added his birth and death dates to the article. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 16:18, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Sharon Disney
I would like to point out as a genealogist that is NOT appropriate to include adopted persons in a family tree. Sharon should certainly be mentioned but a family tree chart should only include actual bloodlines not grafted on adoptions. The function of a family tree is to show blood relationships. People who don't understand how to read a family tree chart may overlook the notation in her block and simply assume that Brad Lund, Michelle Lund and Victoria Brown are Walt Disney's descendants and they are in fact not.

Swyrich Corporation/House of Names as a source
I've never submitted a comment on Wikipedia before so I hope I'm in the right place, but I noticed the first source for this article is ""Disney Family Crest and Name History." Disney Name History, Name Meaning and Family Crest. Swyrich Corporation, n.d. Web. January 14, 2015."

It should be pointed out that Swyrich Corporation is the owner of houseofnames.com, which is a website that manufactures fake family crests/coats of arms for any surname you can imagine, and sells posters of those images. I would not trust ANY of their information. Surely there is a more reputable source for the origin of the Disney surname? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.117.91.250 (talk) 12:59, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Roy E. Disney children
I was reading the article Martha Hackett, which stated that Tim Disney was her former spouse, but was not linked. A web search for "tim disney" quickly leads to this page. However, this page has no reference to Tim Disney. So I worked out who he was and added him and his siblings' names in the appropriate place, and checked their names were correct in the existing reference.

Then Nikkimaria removed the children arguing that they are not notable. Her action seems reasonable as the number of articles about Time in search is pretty limited. While I haven't researched the other children, clearly Tim is not notable enough to have his own wikipedia page. He has produced 12 documentary films, so he could perhaps be argued as notable.

If we take it as given that Tim is non-notable, I still think it is good to name him here, just as he is named on Martha Hackett's page as her spouse and on Roy E. Disney's page as his child. I didn't do any research on the other two children, but it seems unnecessarily terse to state that Roy has four children and not name three of them in an article about the Disney family. WP:BLPFAMILY and WP:INVALIDBIO suggest to me that naming non-notable Tim, Roy P and Sarah here is reasonable even as none of them would be notable enough for their own page.

I note that this same issue was raised about 5 years ago by DavidFarmbrough.

I would appreciate feedback/discussion.

Martyn Lovell (talk) 04:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

> Done DavidFarmbrough (talk) 16:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Not done; the source in that edit provided was not reliable. If he can be demonstrated to be notable that's a different story, but at the moment I don't agree that it would be appropriate to name him and the others. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:05, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

>> That's strange, IMDB not reliable? On what basis? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by saying it isn't appropriate. Surely nothing is more appropriate in an article about a family than the names of the members of that family. What possible basis would there be for excluding him? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 23:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * See the link I provided above re: IMDB. As to the basis for not including: there are members of this family who are notable and should be discussed in this article, and there are others who are not and don't become so just by being related. If you believe this one is notable and you want to go about creating an article for him, have at it. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:49, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Disney origins
Normandy and Ireland apart, there have been significant numbers (hundreds, if not more) Disney persons being born, living and dying in England at various times since the 16th century.

It should surely be interesting to note that Robert Disney (1751-1808), (Walt Disney's 4x great-grandfather) was born in Suffolk, England. Robert's 2x great grandfather (Walt's 8x) Gervase Disney (1641-1691 approx) relocated his family to Suffolk from Lincolnshire. The Disney family name has continued to be common in Lincolnshire since the 16th century and is well-documented in the form of parish registers etc. It seems about time to acknowledge the English origins, especially at they constitute significantly more than half of Walt's paternal heritage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EA01:1090:BC17:8546:A690:205C (talk) 08:21, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have reliable sources supporting the changes you want to make? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:04, 7 June 2021 (UTC)