Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 20 to 26, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 20 to 26, 2020)
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As it looks more and more like the COVID-19 pandemic article won't return unless *knock, knock, knock* the virus gets worse, people look for justice, justices, distractions, and the recently deceased.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Amy Coney Barrett
 * 3,475,060
 * Amy_Coney_Barrett.jpg
 * rowspan=2|After Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87, with a career as a lawyer and justice that even inspired a movie and a documentary, another woman was nominated to fill her seat at the Supreme Court, namely Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which could be the Tweeter-in-Chief's final big act before the election in November.
 * 2
 * Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 * 2,939,448
 * Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_2016_portrait.jpg
 * 3
 * Shooting of Breonna Taylor
 * 2,696,497
 * Breonna_Taylor_Memorial_Louisville_Kentucky.jpg
 * Breonna Taylor was shot dead in her own bed by Louisville Metro Police on March 13. The shooting was protested this summer, in conjunction with the George Floyd protests, but the current wave was sparked by a grand jury indicting only one officer for wanton endangerment of Taylor's neighbors.
 * 4
 * S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
 * 1,924,388
 * S. P. Balasubrahmanyam in 2013 (cropped).JPG
 * The COVID-19 pandemic is still off the list, but still takes some famous victims, like this prolific Indian musician - he held the Guinness World Record for recording the highest number of songs by a singer with over 42,000 songs!
 * 5
 * Ratched (TV series)
 * 1,488,145
 * RatchedLogo.png
 * Ryan Murphy rose to fame with Glee, but apparently really wants to frighten viewers. His latest show, currently on Netflix, takes a page from Hannibal in exploring the origins of a famed villainous character that won its portrayer an Academy Award - in this case, Nurse Ratched (#13) from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
 * 6
 * Enola Holmes  (film)
 * 1,161,239
 * Millie Bobby Brown by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg
 * Netflix came to the rescue of a movie that if not for the goddamned pandemic would've probably earned a theatrical release, adapting the first book of Nancy Springer's The Enola Holmes Mysteries, a series where Sherlock Holmes had a teenage sister and she solves mysteries of her own. Director Harry Bradbeer was responsible for another work revolving around an English woman who breaks the fourth wall a lot, but thankfully, unlike Fleabag, Enola Holmes is actually good.
 * 7
 * Schitt's Creek
 * 933,431
 * Schitt's Creek logo.svg
 * Splitting the latest Netflix hit and its main star is the big winner of this year's Emmys, a Canadian comedy where a formerly wealthy family is forced to relocate to the title location, a small town they once purchased as a joke.
 * 8
 * Millie Bobby Brown
 * 770,917
 * Millie Bobby Brown by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg
 * One year after co-starring in a Legendary Pictures movie about some overgrown lizard, this English actress got another job from that production company. Only this time, the movie (#6) couldn't hit theaters and had to go to the same streaming service that launched Brown's career by making her play a weird kid with a numerical name.
 * 9
 * Deaths in 2020
 * 768,735
 * Cemitério de Alcainça - Portugal (36462534073).jpg
 * And now the end is near, And so I face the final curtain...
 * 10
 * Dan Levy (Canadian actor)
 * 723,140
 * Dan_levy_vogue_2019_6.jpg
 * One of the two co-creators of #7, alongside his father Eugene Levy (who narrowly missed the list at #27), Dan had a great night at the Emmys, with four awards including Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series playing David Rose, a pansexual spoiled child who has to adjust once his life goes riches-to-rags.
 * 11
 * Dennis Nilsen
 * 685,051
 * David Tennant (48602081577).jpg
 * David Tennant already played a completely despicable human being on Netflix, so now he adds another on ITV - and worse, a real life one, this serial killer who is the focus of the miniseries Des.
 * 12
 * The Devil All the Time (film)
 * 681,129
 * Antonio_Campos_(2909739290)_(cropped).jpg
 * A dark and harrowing book adaptation set in post-World War II Ohio, co-written and directed by Antonio Campos (pictured) and currently big on Netflix.
 * 13
 * Nurse Ratched
 * 665,909
 * Louise Fletcher '59 crop.jpg
 * Louise Fletcher won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing this mean lady who made sure the patients of a psychiatric hospital suffered as much as possible in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 45 years later, Mildred, the Big Nurse, is the center of attention in #5, exploring her early life.
 * 14
 * Tyler Herro
 * 662,888
 * Tyler_Herro.jpg
 * The Miami Heat faithful (well, those who don't leave games early and such) had been Holding Out for a Hero ever since Dwyane Wade retired, and got it almost literally in the 2020 NBA playoffs with rookie Tyler Herro, who helped the team reach the finals against the Los Angeles Lakers of former star LeBron James, highlighted by a heroic Conference Finals game 4 scoring 37 points (the fourth player in playoffs history to record 30+ points before turning 21!).
 * 15
 * Among Us
 * 659,937
 * A social deduction video game (à la Mafia or Werewolf) released in 2018 to little fanfare. In recent weeks, it's become popular among YouTubers and streamers, so much so that a sequel was announced and then cancelled in favor of updating the existing game.
 * 16
 * The Boys (2019 TV series)
 * 637,388
 * Prime Video continues to release new episodes for this adaptation of Garth Ennis' comic, where superheroes are big enough jerks to make rather enticing the possibility of them being beaten down by the ruthless vigilantes who give the show its title.
 * 17
 * Sarah Paulson
 * 622,670
 * Goldfinch PC 09 (48809943186).jpg
 * A very talented actress who is clearly a favorite of Ryan Murphy, to the point she won an Emmy for The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and only missed the latest season of American Horror Story because Murphy already put Paulson as the tyrannical nurse (#13) that gives the name to our #5.
 * 18
 * Supreme Court of the United States
 * 583,238
 * Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg
 * If one party were gain a large majority on the Supreme Court (hypothetically,) they would get the final word on what the government can and can't do. They could strike down Roe v. Wade in an instant, if they wanted to. With the death of #2 and the nomination of #1, this is seeming more and more possible.
 * 19
 * Tenet (film)
 * 580,395
 * Christopher_Nolan_Cannes_2018.jpg
 * Christopher Nolan's latest movie, which I can't properly comment, am still waiting for the proper return of the film business in my country.
 * 20
 * Sandra Day O'Connor
 * 500,647
 * Sandra Day O’Connor (5548028006).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Like our top two entries, two judges: one that in spite of #2's fame was actually the first woman in the Supreme Court (#18) - serving for 25 years, from her nomination by Ronald Reagan in 1981 to her retirement in 2006 - and another who was deemed a favorite to the vacant spot, but conservative Republicans such as the one in the White House preferred #1.
 * 21
 * Barbara Lagoa
 * 463,862
 * Judge Barbara Lagoa.jpg
 * 22
 * Zendaya
 * 458,171
 * Zendaya Full Length - 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg
 * Known by many as the current love interest of Spider-Man Mary Jane Michelle Jones, Zendaya Coleman certainly left her child star days behind when taking the role of a recovering teenage drug addict in Euphoria, and was rewarded with the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
 * 23
 * Martin D. Ginsburg
 * 456,699
 * Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_and_her_husband_Martin_D._Ginsburg_in_2009.jpg
 * An American lawyer, and, before he passed away in 2010, husband of #2-ranked Ruth Bader.
 * 24
 * Gale Sayers
 * 453,031
 * Gayle Sayers at Bagram AB 2005 DA-SD-07-10572 crop.JPEG
 * rowspan=2|We finish off with two sports and entertainment recent deaths, Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers at the age of 77 of dementia-related problems, and professional wrestler Joseph Michael Laurinaitis, better known by the name Animal as one-half of the Legion of Doom (his tag partner and real-life friend Hawk died in 2003). He died at the age of 60 of natural causes (yes, in spite of being younger; premature deaths are sadly common in his field).
 * 25
 * Road Warrior Animal
 * 370,391
 * C2E2 2015 - Joe Laurinaitis (16683666234).jpg
 * }
 * 583,238
 * Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg
 * If one party were gain a large majority on the Supreme Court (hypothetically,) they would get the final word on what the government can and can't do. They could strike down Roe v. Wade in an instant, if they wanted to. With the death of #2 and the nomination of #1, this is seeming more and more possible.
 * 19
 * Tenet (film)
 * 580,395
 * Christopher_Nolan_Cannes_2018.jpg
 * Christopher Nolan's latest movie, which I can't properly comment, am still waiting for the proper return of the film business in my country.
 * 20
 * Sandra Day O'Connor
 * 500,647
 * Sandra Day O’Connor (5548028006).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Like our top two entries, two judges: one that in spite of #2's fame was actually the first woman in the Supreme Court (#18) - serving for 25 years, from her nomination by Ronald Reagan in 1981 to her retirement in 2006 - and another who was deemed a favorite to the vacant spot, but conservative Republicans such as the one in the White House preferred #1.
 * 21
 * Barbara Lagoa
 * 463,862
 * Judge Barbara Lagoa.jpg
 * 22
 * Zendaya
 * 458,171
 * Zendaya Full Length - 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg
 * Known by many as the current love interest of Spider-Man Mary Jane Michelle Jones, Zendaya Coleman certainly left her child star days behind when taking the role of a recovering teenage drug addict in Euphoria, and was rewarded with the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
 * 23
 * Martin D. Ginsburg
 * 456,699
 * Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_and_her_husband_Martin_D._Ginsburg_in_2009.jpg
 * An American lawyer, and, before he passed away in 2010, husband of #2-ranked Ruth Bader.
 * 24
 * Gale Sayers
 * 453,031
 * Gayle Sayers at Bagram AB 2005 DA-SD-07-10572 crop.JPEG
 * rowspan=2|We finish off with two sports and entertainment recent deaths, Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers at the age of 77 of dementia-related problems, and professional wrestler Joseph Michael Laurinaitis, better known by the name Animal as one-half of the Legion of Doom (his tag partner and real-life friend Hawk died in 2003). He died at the age of 60 of natural causes (yes, in spite of being younger; premature deaths are sadly common in his field).
 * 25
 * Road Warrior Animal
 * 370,391
 * C2E2 2015 - Joe Laurinaitis (16683666234).jpg
 * }
 * An American lawyer, and, before he passed away in 2010, husband of #2-ranked Ruth Bader.
 * 24
 * Gale Sayers
 * 453,031
 * Gayle Sayers at Bagram AB 2005 DA-SD-07-10572 crop.JPEG
 * rowspan=2|We finish off with two sports and entertainment recent deaths, Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers at the age of 77 of dementia-related problems, and professional wrestler Joseph Michael Laurinaitis, better known by the name Animal as one-half of the Legion of Doom (his tag partner and real-life friend Hawk died in 2003). He died at the age of 60 of natural causes (yes, in spite of being younger; premature deaths are sadly common in his field).
 * 25
 * Road Warrior Animal
 * 370,391
 * C2E2 2015 - Joe Laurinaitis (16683666234).jpg
 * }
 * 370,391
 * C2E2 2015 - Joe Laurinaitis (16683666234).jpg
 * }
 * }

Exclusions

 * This list excludes 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 talk page if you wish.