Andy Dalton saw 86x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Andrew Gregory Dalton is an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed "the Red Rifle", he played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, winning MW Offensive Player of the Year twice and becoming the school's leader in quarterback wins. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 30 edits to this article on 2026-09-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Philadelphia Eagles
• Regular season
• 2011 season

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,316 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,047 characters to Philadelphia Eagles. See everything that changed on 2026-09-29 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.