Talk:Walt Disney/Archive 6

Simple Edit
￼I don't know who can edit this, but under Reputation, I copied this as it now stands: for having given Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl a tour of his studio a month after Kristallnacht, something he disavowed three months later, claiming he was unaware who she was when he was issued the invitation. AA Pilot16 (talk) 05:48, 8 May 2023 (UTC)


 * WOW, you don't make this easy!! I had typed that the last part of this sentence should read "who she was when SHE was issued the invitation." For some reason, when I hit the bar to create the talk page, it truncated this part, the edit I'm proposing... Like I said, simple edit... AA Pilot16 (talk) 05:59, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Walt Disney
Wikipedia says Walt Disney's father was born in the Province of Canada. Canada is a country, not a province. Elias Disney was born in Bluevale, Ontario. Ontario is a province of Canada. 2001:56A:FC51:1C00:1C0A:BE1C:1FB4:C6CD (talk) 18:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The article is correct as written.  General Ization Talk  18:58, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 23 May 2023
In the "Early Life" section i am recommending the addition of an Etymology of the Disney name:

ETYMOLOGY OF DISNEY SURNAME While Disney's paternal grandparents came from Ireland (to Canada), the family name actually has a French derivative:  "Disney" is an anglicization of "d'Isigny" which means 'from the village of Isigny-sur-Mer' in Normandy.

https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/ill-always-be-irish-walt-disney-and-emerald-isle#:~:text=Although%20the%20Disney%20family%20origins,settled%20in%20County%20Kilkenny%2C%20Ireland. Npsaltos428 (talk) 03:50, 23 May 2023 (UTC)


 * This is already provided at Disney family. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:57, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 23 May 2023
Hello, I'd like to suggest that the 3 uses of the term "anti-Semitism" in the "Reputation" section be edited to "antisemitism" to reflect the IHRA's recommendation: https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/antisemitism/spelling-antisemitism JustLilEdits (talk) 23:01, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Tollens (talk) 03:01, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Origin of the name "Disney"
Some other wikipedia pages, in other languages mention that Disney is a contraction and anglicization for "D'Isigny" (from the city of Isigny, famous in French gastronomy for its butter and dairy products). But it is always said with "maybe".

It should be easily proved or disproved by some genealogy searches. So, why nobody made searches about it?

Edit: I didn't read the bottom page notes "Disney was a descendant of Robert d'Isigny, a Frenchman who had traveled to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.[5] The family anglicized the d'Isigny name to "Disney" and settled in the English village now known as Norton Disney in the East Midlands." Why other sites say "maybe"? So, it's proved by genealogy?

Talk:Walt Disney - Archive links are missing
Looking through this talk page's history, it appears that a frequent and now retired editor / gatekeeper of this article at times "manually archived" this page, and at others used a software tool to do so that was not configured properly; its notes say it always saved to "archive 1", even while four other archive pages then existed. This talk page now lacks any links to the former archive pages, of which there were at least five. Some posts and whole sections may be on multiple archive pages, others may have been improperly deleted rather than archived.

For those looking for the talk page archives see this old version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Walt_Disney&oldid=982674169, particularly its header, and/or go through the page history.

Art Babbitt
https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/walt-disney-biography-facts-video

The article needs to say that Disney attended German American Bund meetings according to Art Babbitt. Disney was clearly a regular to these meetings. He wasn't just associated but was active in these meetings pre-WWII. This man didn't just stumble into the wrong conference room with swastikas on the walls and promptly but was again and again going to these meetings if we take Art Babbitt at his word. Forget associating with Henry Ford, he was in Nazi meetings. If someone today were attending white supremacist meetings and someone notable said they saw him there a lot and there's no evidence the person ever denied the public allegations, that would undoubtedly make the Wikipedia article. 70.22.139.70 (talk) 17:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Art Babbitt is not exactly an unbiased source. He was one of the strike leaders in the Disney animators' strike, and continued to protest Disney's "unfair labor practices" following the strike. Dimadick (talk) 23:39, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Typo in note Y
"Riefenstahl's visit was also likley financially motivated as an attempt by Disney to recover more than 135,000 Reichmarks owed from his German film distributor and to get the ban on Disney films lifted in Germany." Should be changed to 'likely'. 104.37.156.13 (talk) 17:28, 10 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Fixed, thanks. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Typo in the reputation section
...describing him in a letter to his sither Ruth as "the best actor, I believe, to be discovered in years." Should be changed to 'sister'. 186.28.82.153 (talk) 08:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ Peaceray (talk) 21:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Disney (disambiguation) § Requested move 24 January 2024
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Disney (disambiguation) § Requested move 24 January 2024. InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:21, 25 January 2024 (UTC)