Richard O'Sullivan saw 342x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Richard Thomas O'Sullivan was an English comedy actor.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 52 edits to this article on 2026-09-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Television
• Personal life and death
• Career as child actor
• Early life
• Filmography
• Later life and death

What changed that day

The article grew by 2,034 characters that day. The largest single addition was 359 characters to Television. See everything that changed on 2026-09-04 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.