2026-05-10 · This surge ran for 31 days and has since subsided.
Wikipedia readers turned to Wade Wilson (criminal) at 28x the usual rate
Wade Wilson (criminal) drew 148,721 views on 2026-05-10, 28x more than the usual 5,310 a day over the previous 60 days.
Wade Wilson (criminal)
American murderer (born 1994)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 148,721 |
| 2026-05-09 | 136,781 |
| 2026-05-08 | 109,490 |
| 2026-05-07 | 87,952 |
| 2026-05-06 | 47,976 |
| 2026-05-05 | 5,933 |
| 2026-05-04 | 5,874 |
| 2026-05-03 | 6,225 |
| 2026-05-02 | 5,233 |
| 2026-05-01 | 4,892 |
| 2026-04-30 | 5,057 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,460 |
| 2026-04-28 | 4,752 |
| 2026-04-27 | 7,916 |
| 2026-04-26 | 5,732 |
| 2026-04-25 | 5,771 |
| 2026-04-24 | 4,757 |
| 2026-04-23 | 3,977 |
| 2026-04-22 | 3,675 |
| 2026-04-21 | 3,485 |
| 2026-04-20 | 3,909 |
| 2026-04-19 | 4,020 |
| 2026-04-18 | 3,885 |
| 2026-04-17 | 3,999 |
| 2026-04-16 | 3,352 |
| 2026-04-15 | 3,117 |
| 2026-04-14 | 3,236 |
| 2026-04-13 | 3,255 |
| 2026-04-12 | 3,723 |
| 2026-04-11 | 3,990 |
| 2026-04-10 | 3,966 |
| 2026-04-09 | 4,183 |
| 2026-04-08 | 3,306 |
| 2026-04-07 | 3,679 |
| 2026-04-06 | 4,235 |
| 2026-04-05 | 4,770 |
| 2026-04-04 | 4,451 |
| 2026-04-03 | 5,025 |
| 2026-04-02 | 5,965 |
| 2026-04-01 | 6,074 |
| 2026-03-31 | 7,807 |
| 2026-03-30 | 13,628 |
| 2026-03-29 | 9,910 |
| 2026-03-28 | 7,119 |
| 2026-03-27 | 6,995 |
What this article is
Wade Steven Wilson is an American criminal convicted of the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral, Florida. Due to sharing the name of the Marvel character Wade "Deadpool" Wilson, Wilson has been referred to in the media as the "Deadpool Killer".
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-05-10, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Legal proceedings and public reaction
What changed that day
The article lost 27 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-05-10 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.