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Elias Disney. Walt Disney’s dather

He wasn't born in a Province called Canada. Canada is a country. There are many provinces in canada.

24.114.91.108 (talk) 21:27, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reputation regarding antisemitism

Perhaps something should be included about the source problem in view of the detailed source-bias description by persimmonmango at reddit. Mcljlm (talk) 00:59, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Baseless Masonry conspiracy theory

Can somebody create a section on the never proven conspiracy theory regarding Walt Disney's belonging to Masonry based only on his Order of DeMolay's membership and modified pictures on the Internet, please? Here are a pair of sources: http://www.midnightfreemasons.org/2011/10/walt-disney-freemason-or-not_26.html?m=1

https://scottishritenmj.org/blog/walt-disney-freemason

https://ilblogdicorto.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/la-disney-non-era-massone-ma-era-membro-dellordine-giovanile-demolay-nel-quale-aveva-iniziato-topolino/ 82.85.201.118 (talk) 05:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now As per WP:BLOG, we need something that is not a blog or user-generated content. Peaceray (talk) 06:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Davis?

Reading through the contents of this wiki page, I came across a problem. I was at Disney's early career and saw "Disney had tried to persuade DAVIS and her family to go to Hollywood." (This quote isn't exact.) Just who is Davis? Is she Winkler?? 72.187.245.242 (talk) 18:58, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]