User talk:Giant4s

ethnic populations
I realise you mean well, but these numbers are vandalised all the time, and you need to check with the sources every time you consult them. I am still in the process of checking the figures I have just given. Yes, I have checked with the linked articles, and I have found that some figures are not references, and other point to a reference that says something different than claimed. E.g. Gujarati people states "65 million", linking to a source that says "46 million".

Other articles include people that state "ancestry". E.g. Irish people. This leads to huge overcounting, because obviously a single person can have dozens of "ancestries". I doubt we want to count the millions of Americans that tick "German ancestry" without speaking a single word of German. It may be perfectly true that they descend from Germans, 200 or so years ago, but nobody would recognize them as "Germans".

It's difficult, and in any case these figures can only be rounded to the nearest five or ten million or so. --dab (𒁳) 14:59, 29 April 2014 (UTC)