Wikipedia readers turned to Paul George at 37x the usual rate

What this article is

Paul Clifton Anthony George Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "PG-13", he is a nine-time NBA All-Star and six-time member of the All-NBA Team, as well as a four-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-07-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2024–25 season

What changed that day

The article lost 485 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 7 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-02 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.