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By Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, CAWylie, Rajan51, and Soulbust

This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, and CAWylie (October 27 to November 2); and Igordebraga, Soulbust, Vestrian24Bio, and Rajan51 (November 3 to 9).

Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you! (October 27 to November 2)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Teri Garr	1,355,055	This American actress known for her comedic roles in film and television, such as Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, and playing the mother of Phoebe Buffay on Friends, died at the age of 79 last Tuesday after years fighting multiple sclerosis.
2	2024 Ballon d'Or	1,273,764	European champion Rodri was chosen by France Football as the best player of the season. Debates soon started discussing if Vinícius Júnior, who was also European champion, would've been a more deserving winner.
3	Rodney Alcala	1,258,084	Netflix brought attention to this reprehensible man who killed and assaulted at least 8 women (some of them minors), was sentenced to death, and died of natural causes after decades in prison. The distinction that made Alcala's story be told in a movie, Woman of the Hour, is the fact that in the middle of his killing spree he appeared in a matchmaking TV show and won a date, though the woman declined to go out with him and thus escaped a grisly fate.
4	2024 United States presidential election	1,234,532	At least it's over? I'll be catching up on sleep now. Next week's Report will have a lot to discuss on this.
5	Tony Hinchcliffe	1,121,021	The 2024 Trump rally at Madison Square Garden (which was compared by the opposition's potential VP to 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, proving Godwin's law is alive and well) had a set by this comedian, to which the reaction wasn't pretty; Hinchcliffe's description of Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" in particular drew much criticism.
6	Rúben Amorim	1,110,284	Manchester United hired this Portuguese coach, who has just managed Sporting CP to a national title.
7	Liam Payne	1,069,395	Two weeks after the shocking death of this musician falling off a hotel balcony at just 33, readers want to learn if the Argentinian police have discovered more on what happened that night.
8	Diwali	1,053,976	The Hindu festival of lights, symbolising the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance, annually celebrated on Kartik Amavasya as per the Hindu lunisolar calendar, which usually falls from the second half of October to the first half of November.
9	Deaths in 2024	1,005,464	"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, 'I am man!', our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality."
10	Freddie Freeman	988,883	As the Los Angeles Dodgers won their eighth MLB title, the World Series Most Valuable Player Award was this first baseman who had home runs in the first four games, including a walk-off grand slam in the first. And adding the 2021 finals that Freeman won with the Atlanta Braves, he had home runs on six consecutive World Series games.

For this could be the biggest sky, and I could have the faintest idea (November 3 to 9)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	2024 United States presidential election	9,045,895	U.S. election between Democrat Harris (#4) and Republican Trump (#3), who won both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
2	2020 United States presidential election	6,934,170	Previous U.S. election, between then-incumbent Trump (#3) and successful Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
3	Donald Trump	5,268,623	Republican elected as the 47th U.S. President, after emerging victorious in #1 against #5. He became the second President to win non-consecutive elections, after Grover Cleveland (1884 and 1892).
4	2016 United States presidential election	3,477,149	The last election, in which Trump (#3) defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
5	Kamala Harris	3.378,730	Lost the 2024 U.S. presidential election (#1). Lots can be said about the defeat.
6	Susie Wiles	2,428,992	After leading #3 to two successful elections, this political consultant will become the first female White House Chief of Staff.
7	JD Vance	2,243,627	Recently elected Vice President, i.e. #2 to this week's #3.
8	Quincy Jones	1,747,761	One of the greatest music producers of all time, whose work included the best-selling album ever and the Austin Powers theme, and who also had a hand in television by helping make shows like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Mad TV, died on November 3 at the age of 91. Former Presidents Clinton and Obama, as well as President Biden and VP Harris all paid their tributes.
9	Project 2025	1,736,612	To sum the general reaction to this conservative plan for reforms, let's quote someone who didn't live to see #2: I'm Afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it...
10	2024 United States elections	1,692,891	In addition to the presidential election (#1), the U.S. also saw elections in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as gubernatorial and legislative elections.

Exclusions

These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Most edited articles

For the October 11 – November 11 period, per this database report.

Title	Revisions	Notes
Deaths in 2024	2084	Among the obituary's inclusions in the period, along with the three listed above, were Baba Siddique, Mitzi Gaynor, Paul Di'Anno and Tony Todd.
2024 United States presidential election	1675	We are citizens of this land And we're here to lend a hand We come together and we vote Because we're all in the same boat...
Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (27 September 2024 – present)	1600	The pain experienced in the Gaza Strip doesn't seem to end, and has extended to the West Bank and Lebanon.
2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election	1332	A few months after choosing their federal representatives, India voted on their state assemblies. Maharashtra, the country's second most populous province (which houses their biggest city Mumbai), mostly went for the Bharatiya Janata Party that already rules the country.
Chromakopia	1242	One week after single "Noid", Tyler, the Creator released his eighth album to critical acclaim and quickly becoming the most successful rap album of the year (its first day on Spotify alone is one of the 20 biggest).
Tropical Storm Trami (2024)	1170	The Philippines were ravaged by this cyclone (that caused lesser damage once it reached Vietnam and Thailand), with 178 deaths, 23 people reported missing, 151 others injured, and US$374 million in damages.
2024 World Series	1108	Major League Baseball came down to the biggest cities of the United States, and the New York Yankees win on game 4 only delayed the title by the Los Angeles Dodgers. As mentioned above, the MVP was Freddie Freeman, and the Japanese designated hitter nicknamed "Shotime" justified the Dodgers paying him a record contract of $700 million over 10 years by helping them to a World Series right in his first season with the team.
2024 Pacific typhoon season	928	Tropical cyclones form between June and November, so lots of storms to cover. The strongest were Milton and Helene in the Atlantic, and Yagi and Krathon in the Pacific.
2024 Atlantic hurricane season	905
Israel–Hamas war	887	Ever since Israel started the war in Gaza against Hamas, their other enemies Hezbollah took the opportunity for attacks of their own. Israel eventually decided to extend its war on Palestine to Lebanon, with exploding pagers, an air strike on the Hezbollah headquarters and ultimately a ground invasion. The international community just can't wait for the ceasefires.
Timeline of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (17 September 2024 – present)	883
Liam Payne	811	The One Direction member went to Buenos Aires to solve O visa problems that would prevent him from going to his girlfriend's home in Miami, and while there watch a concert by former bandmate Niall Horan. Two weeks later he fell to death from his hotel room. Lots of edits were made with updates on the investigation, and apparently he fainted on the balcony after a night of drugs.
Donald Trump	773	And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind Trump America...
2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election	770	Another of India's State Assembly elections, namely for Jharkhand. The BJP were tied for the most seats with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 18	769	One of the Indian versions of Big Brother.

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Not sure what "ever since Israel went on war with Hamas" (not good English, by the way) is supposed to mean, since Hamas started things off by invading Israel and killing over 1,200 Israelis. AnonMoos (talk) 08:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changed a bit. Not being a native speaker probably led to awkward word choices. And I know Hamas struck first and thus Israel had all the reason to retaliate (just not to extend the war to the point where we are now). igordebraga ≠ 01:38, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understood, on the third reading, the sentence: "Although the distinction that made Alcala's story be told in a movie, Woman of the Hour, is the fact that in the middle of his killing spree he appeared in a matchmaking TV show and won a date, though the woman declined to go out with him and thus escaped a grisly fate." Please decode. Johnbod (talk) 18:25, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the awkward phrasing. igordebraga ≠ 01:38, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

erelast? I'll take "cursed words I never want to see again" for $1000, Ghost of Alex. FeRDNYC (talk) 17:29, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it, someone must've tried to change and this unholy mixture of "previous" and "last" emerged. igordebraga ≠ 01:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this first baseman who had home runs in the first four games, including a walk-off grand slam in the first. And adding the 2021 finals that Freeman won with the Atlanta Braves, he had home runs on six consecutive World Series games.
See, strained bullcrap like this is why I can't stand sports statistics, and why I kind of loathe Wikipedia's sports articles and their effect on the project as a whole. (It's not that they're any sort of major editorial burden. For the most part, updates are a slow trickle of minor edits. But seemingly every article about a sports figure feels the need to present up-to-the-minute career statistics, receiving constant updates, ALWAYS uncited, making a mockery of the concept of encyclopedic content, of WP:NOTSTATSBOOK, and a ton of other project norms. And apparently the community of editors working on those articles is completely, unquestioningly fine with that! </rant>)

Because, the thing is, a statistic like that is only correct if you state it very precisely. (To the point where, IMHO, it's robbed of all its impact... but some people are still obsessed with these picayune distinctions.) Freeman didn't have home runs in six consecutive World Series games. Two of them were in 2021, the other four in 2024. There were tons of other World Series games between those, where he didn't even play. He had home runs in six of his consecutive appearances in a World Series game. FeRDNYC (talk) 20:37, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FeRDNYC: Taking some numbers and specifically highlight very specific ones is just inherent to sports writing, it seems, leading to me simply copying that from his article to not make the entry too dry (that's enough of that in the political ones). igordebraga ≠ 01:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Igordebraga just inherent to sports writing You're right about that, and really that's the crux of my ~~complaint~~ lament, not anything about your reporting. That sort of "winningest right-handed pitcher from Kansas who plays for a team with red jerseys" nonsense is just a pet peeve of mine. FeRDNYC (talk) 06:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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