Talk:Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disney, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Disney on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

Contents 1 Logos instead of useless images 2 Disneyland Beijing 3 Singapore 4 A lot of redundance

[edit] Logos instead of useless images

Despite the fact that The Walt Disney Company usually agrees ONLY to use logos instead of Copyrighted photos of attractions when people write something about its parks and resorts, on the Wikipedia page about "Disney Parks and Resorts" we must just list parks and resorts managed by Disney and not stress the attention of people on a particular ride or attraction. That means the only photos that should eventually be published are the ones that show the whole park and not just one attraction!

The images are not meant as a representation of the entire park, or the resort for that matter. They are something at the resort. If you want the logo, you go to the resort's own page. Or on the article you could have both the logo and the image. I don't mind, I'm keeping the images whether you like it or not - it's up to you to decide if you want the logos as well. --Speedway 15:24, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disneyland Beijing

I know for a fact that a Disneyland is currently being built just outside Beijing, China. Why doesn't this page mention that? -The monkeyhate 14:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Because no one else knows that for a fact. Disney consistently has denied reports of any new theme parks being built except for negotiations to possibly build a park in Shanghai no earlier than 2010. [1] Cite a credible source for the Beijing claim. —Whoville 14:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I visisted Beijing this summer, and there you could clearly see the constuction of a Disney Theme Park. Among other things, I saw a Cinderella Castle being built. It may, however, have been an "un-official" theme park. -The monkeyhate 12:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Your source for the claim that a Disney park is under construction in Beijing is this 2001 report. However, the January 2006 article cited above contains this statement directly from Disney:

Media reports that claim Disney is building a park in Beijing are inaccurate and not based on fact. Disney has no plans to build a park in Beijing at this time.

Please supply more credible evidence before making claims that a Disney theme park is under constructon in Beijing. Disney has never built a theme park without announcing it publicly first and you yourself admit that the Disney-esque construction in Beijing may not be an official Disney park. I have therefore removed your contribution (as follows). —Whoville 17:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The construction of a park in Beijing has begun and is reported to be complete by the time of the 2008 Olympic Games.

[edit] Singapore

Huaiwei: Since you immediately restored the content I removed, here is my reason for the edit. This contribution appears to be unverifiable speculation as defined by WP:NOT:

The company CEO Robert Iger's description of impending "indoor, compact"-styled parks may be a hint in reference to the Singaporean proposal.

The cited reference says this:

This small scale, and Singapore's hot weather, could lead to Disney adopting a new generation of indoor theme parks that its CEO Robert Iger floated last year in a Wall Street Journal report. He said there were "three or four entities in the world, locations with money, that are looking for site-based entertainment" - full rides and shows within a building. "I'll call them theme parks but they won't necessarily be along the same lines as parks we've built before ... In the next year to two years ... we will commit to creating a new concept or some entity outside the US," he said then. Analysts pointed out he could be hinting at Singapore. (emphasis mine)

"Analysts pointed out he could be hinting at Singapore" is not a fact. There is no comment from Iger or Disney anywhere in the article about the location he was describing with his "site-based entertainment" remark. Saying that Iger's comment "may be a hint" is speculation by any reasonable definition. —Whoville 14:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

If you may understand WP:NOT a litte better, it forbids against unverifiable speculation, and not verifiable speculation. Wikipedia can write about the future, so long that this information is credibly sourced. The source [2] states that ""I'll call them theme parks but they won't necessarily be along the same lines as parks we've built before ... In the next year to two years ... we will commit to creating a new concept or some entity outside the US," he said then. Analysts pointed out he could be hinting at Singapore." This article then reports on these statements by saying "The company CEO Robert Iger's description of impending "indoor, compact"-styled parks may be a hint in reference to the Singaporean proposal". Thus, the statement here reflects the speculative stance in the original source. There is no reason why it should deny the existance of this speculation when it is properly sourced.--Huaiwei 14:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A lot of redundance

I've removed two paragraphs, one that explained the phenomenon of 'celebrations' and one that blurbed the concept of 'character interaction'. The article is getting a bit short this way, but unfortunately both paragraphs were utterly irrelevant and very badly written without sources. There must be far more important things to shed light on here. Any ideas? SergioGeorgini 15:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the celebrations section had to be removed. That is all. --blm07 17:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)