Talk:Pixar/Archive 3

I think the "$26 million dollar deal with Disney" claim is false. What to do?
I'm talking about this sentence:

The Newsweek article on Toy Story 4 that is cited there ([37]) mentions nothing of this deal. If I search on the internet to corroborate this $26 million dollar deal, I only get recent results (last several years) that are all from summary articles (ie. not detailed secondary sources) with suspiciously similar phrasing to the above sentence.

Doing brief research, I found an SEC filing that mentions Disney and Pixar *did* have a movie deal from 1991, but there's no mention of any payment to Pixar (let alone the $26 million figure) and I can't find any reliable looking source for that claim. In there, it also says that movie deal was for "up to three" films, *not* "three films", so that part of the sentence is probably inaccurate.

Using Blame, i found that the original incarnation of this sentence was added to Wikipedia in 2004 without a citation. Searching by date on Google, I can't find any still existing webpage from 2004 or earlier that corroborates this $26 million dollar deal, and I think all of the more recent ones are just copying from the Wikipedia page.

I would edit the sentence in the article to remove the $26 million figure and have it say "up to three films" instead, but my account is new and the page is protected. The $26 million claim *might* be true, but i think just adding a "" wouldn't deter people from continuing to spread this unverified claim around. Does anyone with more experience know what the best thing to do in this situation is? Tinkledoop (talk) 06:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)