R. C. Hörsch saw 47x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Raymond Charles Hörsch was an American criminal, erotic photographer, and pornographic filmmaker. His 50-year body of work ranged from the poetic to the explicit. His artistic work "often focused on scantily clad women in sadomasochistic settings". He had numerous criminal convictions, including for drug manufacturing and forgery. Critics of his work accuse him of exploiting his subjects. In June 2016, his ex-wife Amy McHale, to whom he was married between 2004 and 2008, disappeared.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-09-18, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Legal issues

What changed that day

The article lost 38 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 38 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-18 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.