[WikiEN-l] Walt Disney's genealogy

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Sun Jan 5 17:46:35 UTC 2003


Zoe wrote:
> Someone has created articles for Walt Disney's ancestors: [[Elias
>Disney]], [[Kepple Disney II]], [[Flora Call]], [[Herbert Arthur
>Disney]].  It is my contention that these articles are not of
>importance to an encyclopedia.  Eloquence seems to think that they're
>useful (see the Talk for Elias Disney).  What is the opinion of the
>community?

I think these are absolutely delightful, and I'm glad to see them.

I don't think that a biography of my mother would be good for
wikipedia, unless and until I make the same kind of impact on the
world that Walt Disney did.  But background information on famous
people, I like it.



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