Randolph Mantooth saw 368x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Randy DeRoy Mantooth, known professionally as Randolph Mantooth, was an American actor who worked in television, documentaries, theater, and film for more than 50 years. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he was discovered in New York by a Universal Studios talent agent while performing the lead in the play Philadelphia, Here I Come! After signing with Universal and moving back to California, he slowly built up his resume with work on such dramatic series as Adam-12 (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969); McCloud (1970); and Alias Smith and Jones (1971).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 48 edits to this article on 2026-07-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life and death
• Theatre
• Emergency! (1972–1979)
• Early life
• Filmography
• Firefighter/EMS advocate and spokesperson

What changed that day

The article grew by 3,908 characters that day. The largest single addition was 5,549 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-11 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.