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January 16

Random spike in page views for minor Baroque composer

Stumbled across Cataldo Amodei, a minor Baroque composer, who has recently had a huge spike in page views (well "huge", as in comparatively to the earlier views). I have no idea why this is, and am curious if anyone sees any reason why. A quick google search of his name doesn't appear to reveal anything significant... Aza24 (talk) 07:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

All I can find is that he's included in a concert in Marseilles in June: [1]. The description there implies that what will be performed is not a Christian religious musical piece... AnonMoos (talk) 08:45, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Weird... here's a better setting on the page views: [2] looking like the increase was late November–December Aza24 (talk) 09:32, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps he was mentioned in some radio (less likely TV) programme about music, or some particular composer (not necessarily him) of the period, prompting people to look him up. The BBC's Radio 3, for example, broadcasts such programmes as Composer of the Week pretty much every day, and I imagine that other stations in various countries do so as well. Is it possible to find out if the views were coming from a particular area, and correlate it with broadcasts covering that same area?

The upsurge starts on 19 November 2020 and the largest spike appears to be on 01 January 2021: for interest, the Radio 3 schedule for that week can be seen here and most if not all of the broadcasts are linked and can be re-listened to. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195|} 90.200.40.9 (talk) 21:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Rejection of acquisition

Are there notable examples when a company, service or well-known brand rejected the acquisition or merger with another company, despite hefty sum offered for that? Including both current and historical examples. Thanks. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Smells like homework. See hostile takeover. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:05, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

It does not have that smell to me. The "hefty sum" is offered to the shareholders, not to the company board rejecting the offer, so the opposition between the reward and the rejection, suggested by the term "despite", is not a clear-cut one.  --Lambiam 11:07, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Here is one example, HP rejected offer from Xerox: [3] RudolfRed (talk) 17:14, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

It is frequently the case that the directors have a large or controlling shareholding. One thing they will look at, when advising shareholders, is whether this is an asset stripping proposal. 194.53.186.131 (talk) 11:24, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Largest diaspora communities in percentage terms

What are the largest diaspora communities in percentage terms? I know that almost two times more Puerto Ricans live outside of Puerto Rico than in Puerto Rico and I also know that more Jews live outside of Israel than in Israel. However, what other examples of this are there? I know that, for instance, there are almost two times more Mongolians living outside of Mongolia than in Mongolia, but as far as I know, this is not due to large-scale emigration of Mongolians (like it is for, say, Puerto Ricans) but rather simply because Mongolia never actually annexed the Mongol-heavy parts of Inner Mongolia--only Outer Mongolia. Futurist110 (talk) 22:42, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

How about people with British ancestry in the United States? HiLo48 (talk) 22:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Good example! Futurist110 (talk) 01:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

See Irish diaspora DOR (HK) (talk) 23:17, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Good example! Futurist110 (talk) 01:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Percentage of what? The ratio between Surinamese people in Suriname and in the Netherlands is about 5 : 3. Note that these are ethnically very heterogeneous communities.  --Lambiam 01:59, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Percentage of the total population of this ethnic/national group worldwide. Futurist110 (talk) 07:46, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Do the Jews living outside of Israel form a community? Jews in the US? Jews in NYC? How to define "community" in this context? Would "non-observant" Jews living on the Upper West Side consider themselves part of the same community as Haredi Jews in Brooklyn?  --Lambiam 10:54, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

I've mentioned this before, but the Armenian and Lebanese diasporas dwarf the population in their two home countries. Haitians are also likely to be more numerous outside Haiti than in the country by this point. Xuxl (talk) 13:48, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

The Greek community of Melbourne; "the largest Greek population of any city in the world outside of Greece and Cyprus". Alansplodge (talk) 14:14, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

"The number of Syrians outside Syria is estimated to be from 8 to 13 million, nearly half of the country's population". And no wonder. --Antiquary (talk) 15:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

100% of the Chagossian people were evicted from the Chagos Archipelago by the UK government in the 1960s and 1970s, and they have never been allowed to return. --Antiquary (talk) 15:42, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for these examples, you guys! Futurist110 (talk) 20:33, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Surely at its broadest, all humans outside of Africa are a diaspora, as we all originate from there? Just occurred to me that racists must really struggle with that idea. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:34, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Dweller -- since about 1860, both up-to-date science and the traditional interpretation of the Bible have been on the side of a single common origin for humanity. For racists who couldn't stand that, the answer was polygenism. A famous and influential scientist who turned to polygenism (and so against evolution) because of his racism was Louis Agassiz. He would have found his anti-evolution positions growing increasingly outdated among scientists, if he had lived past 1873... AnonMoos (talk) 20:19, 18 January 2021 (UTC)