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Of dead pools and dead judges

Summary: There was a lot going on this week: the Grammys; the Presidential primaries in Nevada and South Carolina; and the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, which provoked an entirely predictable and completely unnecessary political firestorm. But what people wanted to know about more than anything, it seems, is Deadpool; a film which, judging from the box office receipts, they've already seen. Still, that's a lot to take in, and I can't really blame people for seeking an escape.

As prepared by Serendipodous, for the week of February 14–20, 2016, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were: