Talk:List of largest peaceful gatherings/Archive 1

Madrid bombing protests
Not listed here are the mass protests of the Madrid bombings on the 12th of March, 2004. Estimated 2.3 million people marched in madrid (estimates were difficult due to umbrellas, as it was raining) and 11.4 million people worldwide.

list
List of largest religious gatherings in history is also linked with article on Religion (See also - Lists). So, to clearly represent Largest religious gatherings, we need a separate List. Also, Major religious gatherings are few and should not be confused with Largest general gatherings whose list can become very large. Holy Ganga 10:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


 * We can make a subset on this article, there is no need to have such a separation as most of the data is the same. &asymp; jossi &asymp; t &bull; @ 16:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I mave merged the articles. If at certain point the list becomes too big, we could split it. But for now, it serves its putpose as is without the need for duplicated content. &asymp; jossi &asymp; t &bull; @ 16:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Unreliable source
"2.5 million people from 144 countries participated in Silver jubilee celebrations of the Art of Living founded by Hindu spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore" > the reference given (http://www.prwebdirect.com/releases/2006/1/prweb336995.htm) is an art of living foundation press release, and as such, not reliable for this claim. Sfacets 16:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

"On 29 April 2007, 1.5 million Turkish people gathered in Istanbul to protect Secularism and to protest the government for their Islamic roots. On 14 April 2007, 1 million Turkish people gathered in Ankara to protect Secularism and to protest the government for their Islamic roots."> the references for these two entries do not contain any such information and therefore are irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.116.252.205 (talk) 05:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorting
I think that the items in the article should be listed in order by the reported number of people at each gathering, rather than as it is currently, which is by topic and then alphabetically by religion. &mdash; goethean &#2384; 17:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Woodstock
Woodstock?

battles
Over a six month period, the Battle of Stalingrad involved approx 2.2 million people. Should it be included here? &mdash; goethean &#2384; 15:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * How I feel on the topic is that social gatherings and warfare are two different subjects. Personally, I would like to keep them seperate.

-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.231.140.225 (talk) 22:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

time span or point of time
Does this article differentiate between x million people gathered at a single moment at place y and x million people gathered through a timespan of z days at place y? I mean, one can easily have 10+ million people at a month long gathering if you count all people that even stayed only a single day at this event. --Abdull 10:44, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Love Parade
The Love Parade in Berlin has been attended by more than one million people for a few times. --Ptambient 20:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

JMJ
...and how about the largest Jean Michel Jarre concerts? Reportedly 2.5 and 3.5 million in Paris and Moscow respectively...


 * Were they really that large? Can the numbers be verified? If so, add them, by all means. --Gene_poole 23:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Gandhi's funeral...?

 * Do you have any numbers to put this in the article?

-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.231.140.225 (talk) 22:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

Anti-War demonstration
i was at the anti-war demo in london against the iraq war in 2003, im pretty sure we had around 2.5 million....

2million people in the actual march.....another 0.5 mil to 1 million waiting for us at hyde park...(there were a lot of people who couldnt walk that far so went directly to the end destination, we had everyone from the very old to disabled people to thousands of kids) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.37.7.94 (talk) 03:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC). could someone add it in please?

Mecca?
Hasn't Mecca had its fair share of gatherings in history? I mean, there has to have been one point with more than 2 million Muslims at Mecca, with the mandatory requirement and all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Curuinor (talk • contribs) 04:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC).

Rolling rally
Most figures I've heard for the Red Sox world championship celebration in 2004 were in excess of 1 million.

updating
there's been bigger new years eve gatherings in timesquare than the largest US gathering said to have had happen, i remember last years was quoted around 2 million maybe more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.146.202 (talk) 06:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Colombia
"On 4 February 2008, between 1 million[14] and 2 million[15] Colombians gathered in Bogotá to protest against FARC." The first source requires subscription to that newspaper while the second is offline altogether.

Those numbers seem ridiculously high even if it was staged. --76.216.8.136 (talk) 06:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Rolling Stones Concert
I remember watching some thing about a Rolling Stones concert in some big city (Miami maybe?) There were over 1.5 million people there. - - [ The Spooky One ] | [ t c r ] 19:35, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Ardh Kumbh Mela
Surely this cannot be 70 million all at once...right? I read the article as it's around 5 million at a time, with over 70 million participants over the 45 days. Does anyone know for sure? But 70M at once sounds impossible (feeding them, the cleanup, etc.)  Louis Waweru   Talk  00:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)