Wikipedia’s 10 most controversial people (Image CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary) The top 100 have received an average 975 page edits per year (a total of 14,632 since 2001), which is 2.7 edits per day or 1 edit every 9 hours. The top 10 have a mean of over 1700 page edits per year (25,821 total), which is 4.7 revisions per day or 1 edit every 5 hours.
The Wikipedia article for George W Bush has received over 3000 page edits per year – a remarkable 8.4 revisions per day, or 1 edit every 3 hours. Women vs Men Only 2 of the 10 most controversial people are women. This is consistent with the top 100, which is 31% female. Given that leaders and wrestlers make up the vast majority of the list (see below) and these professions are male-dominated, you might predict that pages about women would have fewer revisions. Gender of Wikipedia’s 100 most controversial people (Image CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary) But while women did indeed have slightly fewer edits (13,497 total or an average 900 per person per year) compared to men (total 15,142, mean 1009), this difference is not statistically significant (P=0.09954, Wilcoxon signed-rank test).
If there had been more men at the top of the list (i.e. More page edits for the male group) it might have produced fewer revisions among females overall (Note: P. Status of Wikipedia’s 100 most controversial people (Image CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary) When you compare the page edits between people who are alive or dead, however, there’s no difference (P=0.343). You get the same result whether or not you count the 6 recently-deceased people from the ‘Both’ group as ‘Alive’.
This means that living and dead people are equally controversial. Although you might expect facts surrounding historical figures to become firmly established over time, the results show that dead people remain controversial. This is probably because new findings by archaeologists and historians are used to update articles long after influential people have passed away. America vs the World Does a person’s country affect whether they receive more Wikipedia revisions?
Nationality is hard to define for some people, but when a person was born in one country and later became a naturalized citizen or had multiple citizenships, I assigned nationality based on where they lived the longest. For those born before the 20th century, I used the modern name for their country of birth. Nationality of Wikipedia’s 100 most controversial people (Image CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary) Americans constitute 61% of the top 100, and come first for the combined number of revisions for all individuals, with a total of almost 1 million (913,319) page edits since 2001.
The British are a distant second with 105,716 edits, while people from India are third with 65,404 in total. But from an analysis of variance across nationalities, there’s no difference in controversy: people from the same country receive an average of about a thousand page edits per person per year (P=0.4731, Kruskal-Wallis test). ‘Israeli’ appears as an outlier, with double that number of edits (1873), but this is entirely down to a single individual: Jesus of Nazareth.
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As Americans make-up most of Wikipedia’s population, you can also compare people from the US against the rest of the world, but again there’s no difference (P=0.396). This means Americans and non-Americans are equally controversial. Controversial professions The most controversial people features numerous presidents, singers and Bollywood stars. Does profession affect whether someone’s Wikipedia page has more revisions?
To test this, I put each person into one of 8 job categories: Actor, Athlete, Entrepreneur, Leader, Musician, Scientist, Wrestler or Writer. ‘Athlete’ includes sportsmen such as footballers, basketball and tennis players. ‘Entrepreneur’ means inventors and businessmen. ‘Leader’ features presidential candidates, royalty and religious leaders. ‘Musician’ means singers and songwriters, ‘Writer’ includes anyone whose ideas influence others.
Each person was assigned a single profession based on what they’re most famous for, so Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) is in the ‘Wrestler’ category even though he’s now an actor. Jobs of Wikipedia’s 100 most controversial people (Image CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary) Wrestlers make-up 13% of the top 100 and get their own category because it’s debatable whether they should be considered athletes or actors (after all, WWE stands for ‘World Wrestling Entertainment’). Interestingly, the most-edited article after ‘George W.
Bush’ is a ‘List of WWE personnel’, with a total of 42,923 page edits over 15 years. Leaders and musicians each have 30% of Wikipedia’s 100 most controversial people. Athletes constitute 13% – a proportion that includes the ‘‘ tennis players. The only scientist to make it into the top 100 is Albert Einstein.
So does a person’s occupation influence the number of edits to their page? The results clearly show no difference among the professions (P=0.1268), which means that people with different jobs are equally controversial. Conclusion Who you are doesn’t dictate the extent of editing to your Wikipedia article.
Whatever group you belong to – male or female, dead or alive, president or wrestler – the stats show a similar number of page edits. Everyone seems to be equally controversial, except for maybe George W Bush. NEXT: List of the 127 most-edited people on Wikipedia The table shows the most controversial people on Wikipedia based on the total number of page edits over 15 years, starting from the site’s launch on 15 January 2001 to 13 January 2016, using data for (limited to the first 1000 entries).
. A notebook containing a gallery of child-like doodles by a young John Lennon is likely to fetch more than $10,000 when it is put up for auction in Los Angeles. The would-be artist, who was finding international fame with his band The Beatles at the time, scrawled 18 simple sketches in colourful felt-tipped pen in a notepad he carried with him. One of the more interesting of the simple sketches is a basic portrait of his first wife Cynthia.
In the early stages of The Beatles rise to superstardom, the existence of Cynthia as Lennon's wife was kept from both the Press and fans. Paperback scribbler: Other sketches in the book include rudimentary sheep (with ear detail bottom left) in felt-tip pen, and various bespectacled figures Nevertheless, it is touching to see that he was still thinking of her - despite the hurricane of hype surrounding him and his fellow Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The handbook also includes several drawings of animals - a cow, two sheep, a dog and a robin.
It's clear that Lennon would not have shaken the world quite so much had he tried to make his way as an artist. The sketches are basic and would be laughed off by any serious art critic. Beatle cover: Lennon wrote to his friend Peter Robinson 'To Peter, Ta' on the cover of the notebook.
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He added his famous signature above Handy Jotter. The book could fetch over $10,000 at auction in LA on Saturday Three of the sketches feature profiles of faces smoking cigarettes, and in several the person's mouth is turned down.
The sketchbook was given by Lennon to his friend Peter Robinson, a comedian, in the mid-1960s. On the front cover of the Basildon Bond Handy Jotter, Lennon wrote: 'To Peter - Ta!' The simple message is in red pencil, and is accompanied by Lennon's signature. Another magical mystery: The figure on the left has a cigarette in its mouth - despite no visible means of support - while the creature on the right is anyone's guess A pre-printed order slip inside the book describes it as 'Britain's most distinguished notepaper'.
Mr Robinson died in 2004 and since then the notebook has been in the hands of private collectors. Experts have tipped the notebook to sell for around £7,000 ($11,450) when it goes under the hammer. A similarly styled self portrait drawn by Lennon for the opening pages of his widow Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit recently sold at auction for £20,000 ($32,700). Darren Julien, from Julien's Auctions, said: 'Any Beatles fan will know instantly that these are authentic John Lennon drawings. Like a lot of great musicians, John was also an artist and his sketches have an unmistakable style. Fine collectors item: The drawings are not masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination, but Lennon memorabilia is highly prized - and can sell for thousands ' These drawings are quite rudimentary but they are very John Lennon.
A lot of the sketches are of animals and faces, and under one drawing of a woman John has written 'Cyn' - for his wife Cynthia. 'Out of all of the Beatles, John is the most collectable because of his tragic, untimely death. This sketchbook is a fine collectors' item.'
The auction will be held at Julien's Auctions in Los Angeles on Saturday - the day before the 33rd anniversary of Lennon's murder, at age 40, in New York in 1980.