Wikipedia readers turned to Terence Donovan (actor) at 489x the usual rate

What this article is

Terence Patrick Donovan was an Australian actor of stage, television and film. Donovan is perhaps known to audiences for his roles in the Australian police dramas Division 4 and Cop Shop, as well as his roles in the soap operas Home and Away as Al Simpson and Neighbours as patriarch Doug Willis. His film roles include Money Movers, Breaker Morant and The Man from Snowy River. He had guest roles in numerous serials including Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice and E Street. He was the father of actor and singer Jason Donovan.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 30 edits to this article on 2026-07-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life
• Career
• Early life
• Personal life and death

What changed that day

The article grew by 302 characters that day. The largest single addition was 278 characters to Personal life. See everything that changed on 2026-07-19 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

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