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by eesmith 2577 days ago
"The period of collection was from July, 2015–May, 2019" and it seems unlikely that a one week bump due to Gell-Mann's recent death would be enough to change the balance.

I don't know how to get page view statistics from the Wikipedia API to double-check this.
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eesmith 2577 days ago
GRRM's page views far exceed that of Gell-Mann over the years. https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or... .

There is no way the news of Gell-Mann's recent death could cause the balance to change that significantly. Over 8 million people would have needed to visit his page in a week, for a page which normally gets 9,000 views each month.

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quacked 2574 days ago
Wow, it's not even close.
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