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Question the January 2018 move discussion noted that the witch-trial Abigail Williams had drawn "87.6% of all non-disambiguation pageviews last year". Has the distribution of page views across the various pages of "Abigail Williams" changed? Dmoore5556 (talk) 20:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It may be noted that in the sixth paragraph of the article delineating Abigail Williams (band), the text notes, "Because bands from these countries were immersed in the mythology of their respective countries, Abigail Williams looked into American history. Arthur Miller's The Crucible brought Abigail Williams, one of the original and foremost accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692, to their attention."
In fact, it would seem that prior to the 1953 premiere of The Crucible, the 1692 child named Abigail Williams had been little noticed in a historical context other than brief mentions of her name in regard to the Salem trials. The central part assigned to the same-named young adult character, that was invented by Arthur Miller for The Crucible, made the name notorious, with the notoriety increasing over the 70 years since the premiere. —Roman Spinner(talk • contribs)16:20, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Although, analogous to Abigail Williams (Salem witch trials), the last two of the above names also required parenthetical qualifiers, only Abigail Williams was nominated for primary topic and thus removal of the qualifier despite the fact that the child named Abigail Williams was not nearly as prominent as the other two who were young adults and played key roles as accusers.
Comment the only "as shown above" I see is a Google search for "abigail williams sociopath the crucible", for which the results are pretty unsurprising. A Google search for "abigail williams real-life person" yields equally unsurprising results. A neutral Google search for "abigail williams" delivers pretty mixed results, although DuckDuckGo serves up the murder victim at higher priority. Dmoore5556 (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Primary Topic. Dmoore5556 makes a good point, too. I initially found the nom's case compelling but then I read the responses and did my own search. Abigail Williams leads in Pageviews by a huge margin[2]. Per WikiNav[3] most people arrive at the article via search engines or Salem witch trials and the most common destinations from this article are others on the same topic. Abigail Williams (band) is a distant second in page views. A little over 1/3 of readers arrive at the article via search engines and about 6.6% arrive from Abigail Williams. It might be interesting to speculate over beers about why this Abigail Williams is the most popular but it is clear that she is the primary topic.--MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk00:37, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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