Lou Adler is drawing 86x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Lester Louis Adler is an American record and film producer and the co-owner of the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California. He has produced and developed a number of high-profile musical artists including the Grass Roots, Jan and Dean, the Mamas & the Papas, and Carole King. King's album Tapestry, produced by Adler, won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and has been called one of the greatest pop albums of all time.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-08-24, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life

What changed that day

The article grew by 132 characters that day. The largest single addition was 130 characters to Personal life. See everything that changed on 2026-08-24 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

4 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.

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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.