Shelley Fabares saw 102x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Michele Ann Marie Fabares was an American actress and singer. She was known for her television roles as Francine Webster on One Day at a Time, as Mary on sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963), and as Christine Armstrong on sitcom Coach (1989–1997), the last of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. Her film roles included playing leading lady to Elvis Presley in Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966), and Clambake (1967). In 1962, her recording of "Johnny Angel" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-08-25, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life and death
• Film career
• Filmography

What changed that day

The article grew by 638 characters that day. The largest single addition was 416 characters to Personal life and death. See everything that changed on 2026-08-25 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.