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Pleasant Hollow
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The town of Plesant Hollow was founded in 1874.
Pleasant Hollow is an unincorporated community in Unnamed County, in the United States. The sign at the county line reads Pleasant Hollow. A post office opened in the 1850s and closed in the 1940s, when the rural route was folded into the next town.[1] This page gives the population as 1,204.
The county has no seat listed here. Survey notes describe a short row of lots along a creek bottom. The first plat on those notes is dated 1847.[2] Later deeds use that year, and they use the spelling on the sign.
History
Pleasant Hollow began as a wagon stop in the bottom of the hollow, between two larger towns on either side of the ridge. The 1847 plat marks twelve lots on the west bank and a reserve for a mill. The mill was laid out and then left unfinished.[2]
Through the 1880s the stop took mail, grain, and travelers off the ridge road. The post office was the only federal office in the hollow. County minutes record no vote to incorporate. After the office closed in the 1940s, the route and the school were both assigned to the town on the south side of the ridge.[1]
Geography
The houses sit in a narrow bottom. A seasonal creek runs the length of the hollow and goes dry in late summer. The county line follows the ridge to the north, which is where the sign stands. This page does not print coordinates.
Wooded slopes rise on both sides. The cleared ground is the creek bench and a few fields above it. The infobox leaves the time zone blank.
Economy
Work in the hollow was mixed farming, a small sawmill, and trade with the two towns on the road. The sawmill closed before the post office. Current directories consulted for this page do not name an employer in the community.
A feed store operated next to the post office into the 1930s. The building is still on the 1847 plat, marked as a store lot. No business is listed at that lot now.
Demographics
The figure carried on this page is 1,204. The article does not split that count by age or by household, and it does not reprint earlier census lines. Residents are counted with Unnamed County.
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Steven Pruitt.
He edits as Ser Amantio di Nicolao. On 3 October 2026 the Wikipedia API reported 0 edits on that account. A records page from 18 September 2025 said 6,605,342. The count has moved up since then, so this page uses the later figure.
AutoWikiBrowser can allow me to do a couple of hundred edits an hour, depending on how fast my internet connection is.
In that 2018 profile he worked on records at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The 2021 Northern Virginia Magazine profile describes him as a records manager for the Defense Health Agency. This page has no later source for the job. Time put him on its 2017 list of the 25 most influential people on the internet.
Two lists, not one ranking.
The public list of human editors is still ordered by edit count. A separate list counts bots. This page does not merge them, and it does not claim a top 10 of all accounts. Wikipedia's essay "Edit count" does not say that nine of the top ten accounts are bots, and it does not say the human list was scrambled in 2021.
The top six on the human list, fetched 3 October 2026. Hover a bar for the note.
Where the page shows up.
These ten rates are the share of first-page Google results, in the study's population-weighted sample, where an English Wikipedia link appears anywhere on the page. The line runs from 100% to 30.5%. That drop is inside this one dataset. A 2017 click-through experiment is a different study, so it is not drawn here.
100% to 30.5%
(presence rate × 1,000) × that category's peak cost per click
An illustrative upper bound for 1,000 searches priced at the single most expensive query in that category in December 2017. Not a revenue estimate. The other eight categories have no cost-per-click figure in the paper, so they stay as percents. The bar lengths stay the presence rates either way.
Sixty sampled places.
Twenty locations in each of three comparison sets: voting, income, and urban-rural. For each place, the count is how many of 18 result pages (six categories, three queries each) included a Wikipedia link, or a Google Maps pack. The states are a boundary file of the contiguous United States, drawn on the same projection as the dots. Fayette, Mississippi was sampled in both the voting set and the income set, so those two dots are nudged apart. Hover a dot for both counts.
Hover a dot. Darker means the link showed up on more of the 18 pages.
The name on the list.
Pruitt's account is first on the human list, and the field above paints a third of its cells for the "at least a third" in his article. The search sample is less even than that sentence. Politicians and government bodies came back with a Wikipedia link on every page in the population-weighted scrape. Loans came back with one on 30.5 percent of pages. Across the 60 places, Wikipedia is the layer that barely moves, and the Maps pack is the layer that does.
Notes.
- Edit counts for Ser Amantio di Nicolao (7,044,614), Koavf (2,174,994), Cydebot (6,812,251), Yobot (4,733,870), SmackBot (3,734,324), and RussBot (1,537,899) are from the English Wikipedia API on 3 October 2026. The human-list column uses the public list as fetched the same day, which still had Pruitt at 7,044,360. Koavf's list figure and API figure matched.
- The quote is from Tina Eshleman, "Steven Pruitt '06: Wikipedia's most prolific editor," W&M Alumni Magazine, reprinted 29 October 2018, wm.edu. "A couple of hundred" is read here as 200, so 3,600 / 200 = 18 seconds. That is a reading of the phrase, not a stopwatch.
- June 2004 is from the Northern Virginia Magazine profile of 24 November 2021, which says the first edit was one day that month and does not give the day. The lifetime seconds are (3 October 2026 minus 1 June 2004) divided by 7,044,614, computed in the page. Account registration 4 January 2006 is from the same API query. Edits under earlier accounts, whose passwords he says he forgot, are not inside the 3 October count. AutoWikiBrowser's SourceForge registration date, 24 January 2006, is from that project's page; early 2006 builds are listed in its file history. "Normally uses" AutoWikiBrowser is from his Wikipedia biography. This page does not claim a date when he personally began using it. The before/after rates use an assumed early-adoption split at 1 July 2006. Before that day: 572 edits on this account from MediaWiki list=usercontribs (all namespaces), fetched 7 October 2026. After: the page's 7,044,614 minus 572, over days from 1 July 2006 through 3 October 2026. Those contribution counts can differ slightly from the system edit-count total.
- Time's 2017 list is the one the William & Mary profile describes. The Defense Health Agency job is the 2021 profile's description, not a 2026 confirmation. The 2018 profile still has him at Customs and Border Protection.
- Category rates and the map were recomputed from github.com/nickmvincent/you-geo-see, the data for Vincent, Johnson, Sheehan, and Hecht, "Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines" (ICWSM 2019). Wikipedia presence means an en.wikipedia.org link anywhere on the stored first page. Politicians through fast food are from population_weighted_40_all.db. Insurance and loans are from 2018-01-18_population_weighted_40_extra.db. The ten rates are that 40-location sample. The map is a different sample in the same repository: voting_10_all.db, income_10_all.db, and urban-rural_10_all.db, six categories only (auto, fast food, financial, retail, politicians, government bodies), 18 pages per place. A Maps hit is a maps_locations or maps_places result, or a link flagged as one. The state shapes are the contiguous United States from a Census-derived boundary file (the us-states sample in folium, from us-atlas), projected with Albers equal-area. Alaska and Hawaii are not on this frame. The dots use that same projection.
- The $514 and $259 figures are the paper's own sentences: the top cost per click for the most expensive query in insurance, and in loans, in December 2017, from Google AdWords Keyword Planner. They are not averages, and they are not applied to the other categories. The dollar line is (presence rate times 1,000) times that peak price, labeled as an upper bound.
- McMahon, Johnson, and Hecht (ICWSM 2017) measured click-through when Wikipedia links were removed. That result is not in the you-geo-see tables, so it is not on this page. The drop drawn here is 100% to 30.5% on the presence chart.