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December 2, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.

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Not moved, May 2015, from The Walt Disney Company to Disney, see discussion.
Not moved, 11 December 2023, from The Walt Disney Company to Disney, see discussion.

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Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Disney (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All articles on Disney films probably need semi-protection at this point

If you look at articles on Disney Animation and Pixar films, they are getting hit hard with vandalism every day or every other day. I'm thinking it's probably time to implement a categorical policy of semi-protection for all articles on the English Wikipedia on all films produced or distributed by the Walt Disney Company, animated or live-action. Coolcaesar (talk) 20:40, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't do that. See WP:PREEMPTIVE. InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:18, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will say, it is quite out of control. It's pointless blocking the IPs. Mike Allen 20:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. It's only Disney and Pixar films that seem to get hit particularly hard by vandals every day because they are so prominent. We're not seeing this level of craziness with Warner or Paramount films. --Coolcaesar (talk) 21:08, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Disney" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Disney has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 22 § Disney until a consensus is reached. Ladtrack (talk) 18:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New logo and citations

That new 2024 logo is fake and there’s no evidence showing the new logo existing. Possible troll or fan account to change the wikimedia. Also there doesn’t need to be a need citation for Mickey Mouse being the mascot of Disney. That’s common sense and fact. 2600:8804:169C:4600:B968:2F15:E521:82C6 (talk) 18:04, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fully concur on the first point, but not the second. People from cultures in which Disney is merely a significant brand but not a dominant one are less likely to be aware of Mickey Mouse's status as the company mascot. In the meantime, I've already reverted the improper alteration of the logo in the infobox and reinstated the prior logo, which actually resembles the one used on the official company web site. --Coolcaesar (talk) 18:43, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As the 2024 logo contributor on Logopedia website, I can prove the 2024 logo is not fake, as the logo now appears on some news on Disney Japan website, including https://www.disney.co.jp/corporate/news/2024/20241120 and https://www.disney.co.jp/corporate/news/2024/20241127_01 .

However, as I mentioned on Logopedia that this logo only appears on several Asia-based Disney events and is not officially introduced, I believe that based on Wikipedia’s editing guidelines, the company article should only use the primary logo. Hence I would support User:Coolcaesar’s decision to revert previous back to current Disney company-wide-use logo.

2001:1970:57A3:F400:BD3B:6866:A33:BE77 (talk) 08:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why you can't move the article?

I want to change the article title to just Disney, but I can't. So, please fix it! SophieFatusBooksFan1456 (talk) 01:18, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has been protected to prevent abuse of the move feature. There is no consensus, per previous discussions, to move this article's title to simply Disney. Trailblazer101 (talk) 01:25, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concur. If you look at the previous move discussions, the problem is that Disney simply means too many different things to too many people. As I pointed out back then, this is one of the things I learned the hard way from attending D23 Expo three times—or now, four. For example, I have always regarded Disney primarily as connoting animation first and then everything else. So it was a big surprise for me to realize at D23 Expo that other Disney fans are tightly focused on other parts of the company and are not into animation at all. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:07, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Picture change

I noticed that the photos for the founders in the History section have photos of Walt and Roy from 1946 and 1965, respectively. The caption for that says "Walt Disney (left) and his brother Roy O. Disney (right) co-founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, which later became the Walt Disney Company." Generally when we do images like that we try to get the photos as close in age to what the caption and text is describing as we can, so readers know what they looked like back then. In that vein, I'd like to recommend changing these pictures.

For Walt's, a potential alternate is this one cropped to his face. He doesn't look terribly different and the quality is worse but it's still about a twenty-year age difference. I'm honestly not sold on changing Walt's but if there is interest then that is the photo that I would recommend.

For Roy's, I'd strongly request changing to this photo, cropped to his face. I recognize that there are several issues with this photo but he is forty years older in the current photo than what the caption is describing and looks completely different than how he actually looked back then. Please change it. It's not currently on Commons but the licensing should be clear; according to this, "Associated Press images distributed to news organizations in the United States between 1930 and 1963 did not have their copyright renewed and are also in the public domain." I would do it myself but I don't know how. Please change this one. Ladtrack (talk) 04:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]