Wikipedia readers turned to Tom Pelphrey at 80x the usual rate

What this article is

Thomas Joseph Pelphrey is an American actor. He is known for playing the roles of Jonathan Randall on the CBS television series Guiding Light, Mick Dante on As the World Turns, Kurt Bunker on Banshee, Ward Meachum on Iron Fist, Ben Davis on Ozark, Perry Abbott on Outer Range, Don Crowder on Love & Death, Robbie Prendergrast on Task, Joe Mankiewicz in David Fincher's film Mank, and Jason Derek Brown in the true crime film American Murderer. For Ozark, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He received his second Primetime Emmy nomination and won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2026 for his role in Task.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 14 edits to this article on 2026-09-15, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life
• Other television and film roles

What changed that day

The article grew by 333 characters that day. The largest single addition was 106 characters to External links. See everything that changed on 2026-09-15 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.