Talk:Elias Disney

Is there any need for this article? Just being Walt Disney's father hardly qualifies someone for addition to the Wikipedia. -- Zoe

Elias is the father of both Walt and Roy Disney and the only reason for the short article is a connection to both of them.Roy was important in his own right and his son is currently vice-president of the company.Mentioning that in Walt's article would be out of subject.Walt's parenthood is also a matter of debate because there is a rural legend that gives his natural parents as Spanish instead of Irish.-User Dimadick

The article contains factually verifiable information and may be interesting to people who want to know about Walt Disney's background. Keep it. But we may want to have the Disney family tree on a single page eventually. It's getting silly when we have pages for every distant relative. But having these pages become redirects to the family tree article would be OK. --Eloquence

Sorry, I disagree. You can have articles about both Walt and Roy without going through the whole family tree. -- Zoe

Yes, but the family tree is factually verifiable encyclopedia-type information that may be interesting to some people. While I don't think everyone in such a tree "deserves" their own encyclopedia article, there should not be a problem with having genealogical information in the articles themselves. --Eloquence

And Walt is a descendant of George Burroughs, executed for witchcraft at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and therefore of Edward I, through his mother, Flora Call, not thru his Disney daddy. :) -- Someone else 02:38 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)