Pretty Ricky saw 237x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Pretty Ricky is an American R&B/hip hop group originating from Miami, Florida. The group originally consisted of two brothers, Diamond Smith, Spectacular Smith, their cousin Corey Mathis, and an unrelated member, Marcus Cooper. Pleasure P was the group's main singer, while the other three members performed as rappers. After he departed in 2007 to embark on a solo career, the group shuffled through several replacement vocalists.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-06-26, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Singles

What changed that day

The article grew by 269 characters that day. The largest single addition was 269 characters to Singles. See everything that changed on 2026-06-26 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.