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I wonder if User:Dr Blofeld gets more hits when a James Bond film cmes out?

A good number of Fawkes' conspirators were caught and executed.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Will have to read up on Fawkes then, I borrowed that text from last year's report. As for Dr Blofeld, the answer is yes, based on this release and last bond film in 2012, there is a small spike of views around the release date of each film!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carson couldn't have gotten a scholarship to West Point. Education there is free but requires a commitment to serve in the U.S. Army.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Vchimpanzee, from my reading on the subject, I found that West Point has at times referred to tuition being on a "scholarship" basis. Everyone has a "scholarship" if they make the non-monetary but very significant service commitment. Carson could have worded it better, but the breezy narrative of his book, writing when the idea he would run for President and be a party front-runner some day was ridiculous (and still is!), brushes over details.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:25, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Table formatting

Ugh, please fix the table formatting. The imposition of either fixed column widths or a fixed table width is causing the last column to become very narrow, and since it contains a lot of text I have to scroll down interminably to read the text in each cell. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 11:06, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you get the same problem on prior traffic reports? And are you on a mobile phone?--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:37, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, I was viewing the page on a laptop. I don't think the problem was so bad before. Actually, looking at the table again, the issue doesn't seem to be fixed column or table widths but the fact that the table is indented quite a lot from both the left and right margins. In addition, I note from the wikitext that the table is further indented from the left margin using the "::" markup, which reduces the width further. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 07:26, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is this line: "<div style="padding-left:50px; padding-right:50px;">". If I reduce the padding to 10px and also remove the additional left indenting of the table, the width of the last column improves greatly. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 07:30, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spectre (2015 film)

Regarding Spectre, what does the traffic report mean by, "it seems the proudly British producers have confidence enough to stand apart from Hollywood, releasing the film in six national territories - but not the US."? I noticed this last week too. My first thought is that it means the film has not been released in the U.S., but that is demonstrably untrue - it has been released and is in all sorts of theaters. But then how else is that sentence to be interpreted? ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:56, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, this refers to the initial release - the U.S. was something like 10 days after the U.K. We may need to tweak the description now that its been on the chart for a few weeks. Thanks for letting us know.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 22:18, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]