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Disney's principle shareowners
According to Disney's 2023 proxy statement, The Vanguard Group owns 7.6% of shares and BlackRock owns 6.4% of shares. Previously a user removed these percentages on the infobox. This information is important especially involving ESG rating scores.
Many corporate Wikipedia pages including Warner Bros. Discovery and The Coca-Cola Company have these shares listed under owners in the infobox also.
If you type ctrl+F and type "BlackRock" or "Vanguard" it's listed under 5 of 7 in the Stock Ownership/ Other Information pages. 2600:8804:1693:7B00:385A:F3BD:E1B1:36EB (talk) 08:25, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The above link gives the guidelines on what to include in the info box. "Use this field for publicly traded companies only when the owner is a long-term strategic owner such as an affiliate, founder or founder's family." BlackRock and Vanguard were the only shareholders to hold more than 5% of the shares as is said in the Proxy Statement you linked, however, they do not fit the criteria to be included as "Owners" in the info box. CicolasMoon (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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The Walt Disney Company → Disney – WP:COMMONNAME, by an overwhelmingly wide margin; Disney has already long redirected here, and even our lead sentence says the common name is just Disney. This has been RMed before, but the general response has always been a bogus claim that it is "too amgibuous" and could refer to Walt Disney. This is not a valid argument per WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. If Disney were too ambiguous, it would go to (or would have the contents of) Disney (disambiguation) and could not redirect here. Disambiguation hatnotes exist for a reason, and all we need at this article is ((About|the company|its founder|Walt Disney|other uses|Disney (disambiguation))). Hardly any independent reliable sources go to the trouble of spelling out "The Walt Disney Company"; they just write "Disney". Google News for "Disney": "About 17,100,000 results"[1]; for "The Walt Disney Company": "About 43,700 results"[2]; for just "Walt Disney Company": "About 41,700 results"[3]. This is orders of magnitude of a difference, and only a tiny sliver of the "Disney" results are about Walt personally or about something other than this company. Aside: If anything's ambiguous, it's "Walt Disney", since it's also in the full name of the company. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 13:34, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Ill-considered given the possibility someone is looking for Walt Disney himself, who is a very famous and notable figure. I think the answer is to disambiguate "Disney" by moving Disney (disambiguation) to the main name, as their pageviews are very similar, making there WP:NOPRIMARY by either views or longterm significance. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:29, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Oppose: This is the name of the company and the hatnote for Disney already helps navigate any readers who may be looking for Walt Disney or vice versa. Common names should not be used to override the actual names of companies just to satisfy an ease for some. Disney already redirects here anyway for the shorthand name, which is not the primary name of this subject and should not be used in place of the official full name. Trailblazer101 (talk) 17:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, and I'm actually a bit stunned that Disney redirects here; see Walt Disney. 162 etc. (talk) 18:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose What the — SMcCandlish, I can't believe you actually did this (context). "Disney" most commonly refers to either the company or the person. If anything, Disney should be converted from a redirect to this page to a redirect to the DAB page. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:52, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that making "Disney" the name of the DAB would make much more sense than this erroneous RM. Trailblazer101 (talk) 20:36, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No. A dictionary publication does not override official legal names of corporations. That is the whole point of preserving actual names over user-coined ones and why it is highly ill-advised. Trailblazer101 (talk) 21:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not called "Disney Company", it's called "The Walt Disney Company". We don't move Barack Obama to Obama even though he is the primary topic of "Obama" and Obama redirects to Barack Obama. InfiniteNexus (talk) 22:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly Oppose: Terrible idea, users could also be looking for Walt Disney. As a matter of fact, Disney should be strongly considered for its own DAB page. GalaxyFighter55 (talk) 04:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose per all the reasons above. Recommend a WP:SNOW close as it's clear there is strong opposition to this. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 03:02, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose for all the foregoing reasons. Disney should be a disambiguation page and not a redirect to this article. "Disney" is inherently ambiguous because in common usage it can be used to refer to the man, the company, the parks, the films, the television shows, the publications, or the merchandise. At D23 Expo, it's always very funny to watch Disney fans struggling to figure out whether other fans are in the same Disney fandom and to realize that the word "Disney" means very different things to different people. (I attended D23 Expo in 2015, 2017, and 2022.) For example, I hadn't realized the Disney merch and cosplay fandoms had become so big until I went in 2015. I had always thought of Disney as a film studio and theme park operator. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:06, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, it wouldn't make any sense to do so. Disney could mean anything, not just the company. WiinterU (talk) 14:46, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Some people are probably looking for the person, the theme park, or probably studios or channels named after it. Look at Barack Obama, he may be the primary topic of "Obama" and it redirects to him. 120.28.230.36 (talk) 02:09, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This can just be WP:SNOW closed right now. But I have to observe that the oppose rationales are uniformly defying both our article title policy and disambigation guidelines to get a PoV-favored result for some reason. It is clearly factual that this company is most commonly referred to in independent sources as simply "Disney", and that "Disney" used by itself in the independent source material is, by a vast majority, in reference to the company. Even if we were to not move this article to Disney, then it should actually be at Disney (company), instead of at the full corporate name. Keeping this as The Walt Disney Company is wrong twice over. But this clearly isn't going to be resolved by this particular RM. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 12:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's much easier for people when it stays as just "The Walt Disney Company". It shouldn't be known as "Disney" or "Disney (company)" because that is not the legal name. Changing it now will only cause frustration and confusion. WiinterU (talk) 15:37, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This article should never be titled "Disney", "Disney (company)", or anything that is not the legal, official name. You are missing the whole point. We don't get to pick and choose what names we want on here. We go by the facts and procedures. Trailblazer101 (talk) 18:41, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
To respond to User:SMcCandlish above: Well, the "PoV" and "some reason" which you are alluding to is that under WP:COMMONNAME, Disney is inherently ambiguous. If you look at actual published sources on Disney on Google Books, many of them consistently refer to the Walt Disney Company by its full name to make it clear that they are referring to the company.
You might want to consider whether this is an unknown unknown scenario. I always do. For example, I was irritated for a long time to see other people writing "had its premiere" rather than "[film name] premiered" in WP articles about motion pictures. Then I started examining the locations of published sources more carefully as to both usages and slowly realized that it's actually a West Coast/East Coast divide in American English, similar to the long-running soda/pop/soft drink mess. Californians write that a movie premiered and New Yorkers write that it had its premiere. --Coolcaesar (talk) 22:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose and clarification of policy for WP:NATDIS and WP:NATURAL. "Disney" can refer to Walt Disney or his company and so it is more understandable if we keep separate pages under those titles and allow Disney to exist as a redirect or disambiguation. WP:COMMONNAME is a common outcome but it is inadvisable in many essential instances especially and particularly when the common name is ambiguous. Jorahm (talk) 18:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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change "to run Disney's merchandising; Karmen agreed and " to "to run Disney's merchandising; Kamen agreed and " Ggrushka (talk) 12:02, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Done ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 12:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)