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Nikkimaria, why did you revert the edit I do? I added two important things: his years of activity and his father in the WikiTable. But why did you revert this? AUC2012 (talk) 12:30, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nikkimaria, did you read the comment? AUC2012 (talk) 13:33, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nikkimaria, DID you read? AUC2012 (talk) 18:17, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nikkimaria, I edited Walt Disney. I talked and disagree with your edits on my edits. AUC2012 (talk) 18:52, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• AUC2012, Please stop edit warring and please stop pestering for an immediate response. A check of their editing shows Nikkimaria hasn’t been online in the six and a half hours that you’ve sent them four messages here and left a further four messages on their talk page. That is not acceptable behaviour. Now, I agree with keeping the details out of the IB: it’s pointless having a link for his father when there’s a link to the entire family, and ‘years active’ is always a dubious and rather trivial field to include. The golden rule of IBs is ‘less is more’, otherwise any relevant information is lost in the swamp of trivial factoids. The addition to the video is also a bit pointless, given it repeats the date already present. - SchroCat (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks SchroCat - I'd have to agree. I don't think there is a benefit to these proposed additions. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:03, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  OK. It's right. AUC2012 (talk) 12:21, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  But I only wanted to add these additions to the article. For example, in the WikiTable of this article lacks of his years of activity and his father. AUC2012 (talk) 12:25, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I understand what your proposal is; I just don't agree that it would be of benefit. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:34, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Why? AUC2012 (talk) 12:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  For the reasons that SchroCat explained. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:57, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Right. But I only wanted to add these additions. AUC2012 (talk) 15:04, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Again, I understand that. But I don't think these additions should be added. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:06, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Ok. AUC2012 (talk) 15:15, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  But I think these additions should be added AUC2012 (talk) 15:15, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Noted. At the moment you don't have consensus to do that. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:17, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Ok. And when arrives the consensus to do that? AUC2012 (talk) 16:59, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the photograph 'Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941', the wrong way round? (Look at the pocket on his jacket). Or was Walt Disney left-handed?

~2026-51389 (talk) 14:33, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think that you are correct. I have requested that the image be flopped to the correct orientation. Please see my request at commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADisney_drawing_goofy.jpg&diff=1141255707&oldid=1114944040. Peaceray (talk) 18:20, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody around to illustrate me? Fell down the rabbit hole 4 years ago, and still no idea about Wonderland... Thank you very much. SOLIMAN33 (talk) 03:34, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The section about accusations of anti-Semitism seems quite thorough, but it makes no mention of the former Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun being employed by Disney to help design Tomorrowland and consult on a series of TV shows about space exploration. This is a pretty glaring oversight. ~2026-66988-5 (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide citations from one or more reliable sources? Peaceray (talk) 04:01, 24 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]