David Bale saw 158x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

David Charles Howard Bale was an English entrepreneur, environmentalist, and animal welfare activist. He was the father of actor Christian Bale and the husband of Gloria Steinem.

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What changed that day

The article grew by 32 characters that day. The largest single addition was 32 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-04 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.

Rose at the same time

2 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Gloria Steinem American activist and journalist (1934–2026)
• Christian Bale English actor (born 1974)

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.