Talk:The Walt Disney Company/Archive/2019

Semi-protected edit request on 1 February 2019
In financial data section, change 'Net income' to 'Operating income'. Sableyewiki (talk) 04:30, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The figure shown for "Net Income" in the infobox is reported as "Net Income" at the source, not as "Operating Income".  General Ization Talk  04:35, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 February 2019
Walt disney company's Net income during 2018 is 12.598b$. 15.706b$ is their Operating income during 2018. financial data section on bottom of this page is incorrect. Sableyewiki (talk) 08:51, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: source? The source on the article says "Net Income" not operating Suddenblast (talk) 14:28, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2019
Hello, I have a suggestion to split Disney into two separate articles. One should be called The Walt Disney Company (1923-2019), as it is the incarnation of the company that no longer exists. The organization that exists today should have its own article as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattNor91 (talk • contribs) 17:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Aside from having more assets, there is no meaningful difference between Disney (literally) yesterday and today. Performing the acquisition using a holding company is purely for legal and stock purposes. Also, Disney did the same thing when they acquired Capital Cities/ABC. Trivialist (talk) 22:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The new Walt Disney Company was a holding company for the merger and was dissolved once the merger was completed. We're still in the original Disney, but with more assets. Starforce13 (talk) 14:28, 23 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose. There have been multiple incarnation of the company, Disney Bros. Cartoon Studios partnership then the incorporated Walt Disney Productions, Limited then a reincorporation in Delaware I believe then renamed to The Walt Disney Company, which is post CC/ABC merger called Disney Enterprise. Then the second TWDC, parent to ABC and Disney Enterprise, which was recently renamed after merging with TWDC Merge Enterprise I to Disney Enterprise 18 Corporation ceding the The Walt Disney Company name to WDC Holdco 613 Corp. If all corporations were done that way there would be articles about TWDC Merge Enterprie ` & 2, etc. Business forms change all the time, so it is the organizational continuity that matters. Spshu (talk) 00:56, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. For the reasons stated. Go read a book on corporate law. Large multinational corporations routinely form these temporary holding companies in order to bring about mergers.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:03, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As oppose to regurgitating what everyone else has said, you should look at the Taito article as an example of a company being legally dissolved and reincorporated, but still retaining the same assets and functions throughout its history. The Walt Disney Company only created New Disney because 21st Century Fox was too large of a corporation to just have Disney acquire all of the shares of the company. In order for 21st Century Fox shareholders to retain their shares after the merger is complete, Disney would have to reincorporate in technicality terms. In mergers, shares are transformed from the target company (21st Century Fox) to the acquiring company (The Walt Disney Company). Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 13:59, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Disney Media Networks
Strange. The French Wikipedia has a detailed article about Disney Media Networks, while English Wikipedia doesn't have one. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 16:29, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it's because no one has the time, energy, or interest to write one explaining the mind-boggling complexity of how the Media Networks unit is structured. The other problem is that there are relatively few reliable sources available that explain its strange corporate structure. In contrast, the high-profile film and parks units get much more media coverage. --Coolcaesar (talk) 08:44, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Disney aquires 21st Century Fox
Not able to log in right now. Can someone please add to the 2005-present section the fact that Disney aquired 21st Century Fox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.39.115.182 (talk) 21:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It is already extensively discussed in that section and at Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.  General Ization Talk  22:00, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * See the paragraph beginning "In November 2017, it was reported by CNBC that Disney had been in negotiations to acquire 21st Century Fox. ..." and ending with "The transaction officially closed on March 20, 2019."  General Ization Talk  22:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Who calls the company "Walt Disney"?
Someone put that unsourced statement into the lead paragraph a few months ago. Having been a news junkie for over 25 years, and a Disney fan for nearly as long, I'm quite certain that no professional writer calls the company "Walt Disney". They write "Disney" or the "Mouse House" for the company and "Walt Disney" for the man. That statement is going to be deleted shortly unless I see some reliable sources. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:13, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. It's just "Disney", not "Walt Disney." The only time "Walt Disney" is used, is when it's part of another name like "Walt Disney Studios", "Walt Disney Television" etc, but not usually on its own. I support deleting "Walt Disney" from the lead sentence. Starforce13  21:03, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hearing no objections, I'm removing that unsourced nonsense. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:08, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 October 2019
Add Marvel Entertainment to Subsidaries. 2600:100A:B104:71D0:B197:28AE:3790:C99D (talk) 20:46, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. It was removed by  on 15 October (see Special:Diff/921446226) Please gain consensus for re-adding it. NiciVampireHeart 14:52, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2019
Please change "	Evangelos Marinakis (0.0411), alter ego (0.0631), State Street Global Advisors (0.0427)" in the info-box to the correct ownership information. I'm pretty sure "alter ego" doesn't own any shares of Disney, but I can't say the same for Evangelos Marinakis or State Street Global Advisors. 2600:1700:C960:2270:D56C:6E66:3CC8:F695 (talk) 07:29, 17 December 2019 (UTC)


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