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Amazon looks like manipulation (bots etc). See Amazon.com_controversies, a "main article" link in Amazon.com. If there were really that many people going to Amazon.com, some of it would bleed over to Amazon.com_controversies because some readers would click through as they read the article. But there is no corresponding traffic spike. -- GreenC 22:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

• It may be manipulation but I did not feel it was certain enough to exclude. Your observation is an interesting hypothesis. Unfortunately the Amazon.com_controversies page has such a small average viewcount (about 225 views a day) that very few readers seem to be clicking through to that page. Typical bot exclusions are easier to deduce because we'll see a huge view spike on 1-2 days during a week, and much much lower viewcounts on the other days of the week, with no steady rise or fall around the high. That excluded Because the Internet from this week's list, for example. Also on the pro-bot-theory side, however, is the fact that the Amazon.com article on the French, German, and Spanish wikipedias (the only ones I checked) don't show the same variation in recent viewcounts as the English one. In comparison, the Indonesian wikipedia article on the Indonesian presidential election also showed a jump in views around that election similar to our article.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 05:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

• Indonesian presidential election: results are due 22 July, not 20 July. (1, 2) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:34, 19 July 2014 (UTC)