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Now, now, this isn't tabloidish. I'm sure that more weighty articles about space travel, Ukrainian politics, hurricanes or Jane Austen get more views if measured over a longer span of time, like a year. I doubt many readers will check out Sterling's article two months from now. These are just intense bursts of interest so, of course, they will be, in large part, headline news and recent movie releases. But do you think many people will be reading about Spiderman 2 in July? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Well no; but I guess our relationship with readers plays out on a number of temporal levels, from day-to-day to longer-term patterns. Both aspects seem important. Tony (talk) 23:36, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Last year's aggregate was pretty tabloid heavy. Be interesting to see if the pattern holds true this year. Serendi^podous 23:43, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

• Are these views per day, or per week? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC).
  

Per week. Serendi^podous 18:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

• When I want to know what happened on a particular TV series on a particular date, Wikipedia is where I go. No sense wondering where to go and looking through Google or Bing results that may or may not work.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:41, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Me, too. I might work on policy pages, categories or articles while editing but if I want to read a TV show episode recap, I come to WP first and if there is nothing here, Wikia or other sites. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

My problem with this is that Wikipedia isn't designed to work as a TV listings guide; the main page isn't likely to remind readers when to catch the season finale of Game of Thrones. Perhaps this is something that should be created, designed with TV watchers, rather than college students in mind. Serendi^podous 18:42, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Recaps exist elsewhere, in abundance. That's the problem, fan sites going over-the-top with detail. Synopsis of TV shows on Wikipedia are between 1 and 4 sentences, usually. Just the main facts. I'm not arguing that they should or should not be in an encyclopedia, the fact is that they are here and so people check them out. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:44, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

• I'm not sure I understand the title of this article... — foxj 14:27, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

It's a reference to TMZ. Serendi^podous 15:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)