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Search and Destroy

Quality:

Search and destroy - type of military counterinsurgency strategy, killing all enemies then quickly retreating. Article “Search and Destroy” in German Wikipedia has 23.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Italian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Search and Destroy”, its content was written by 4 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 257 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in German Wikipedia and cited 838 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #27507 in August 2015
  • Global: #47127 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #166945 in May 2017
  • Global: #116901 in May 2010

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
29.4309
2German (de)
Search and Destroy
23.7401
3English (en)
Search and destroy
22.3
4Malay (ms)
Cari dan musnah
18.7257
5Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y destrucción
17.6535
6Czech (cs)
Najdi a znič
17.0339
7Chinese (zh)
搜索与歼灭
15.9097
8Portuguese (pt)
Procurar e destruir
11.7067
9Dutch (nl)
Search and destroy (doctrine)
9.3301
10Azerbaijani (az)
Axtar və məhv et
8.9978
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Search and Destroy" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Search and destroy
1 151 384
2Russian (ru)
Найти и уничтожить
126 582
3Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến lược tìm và diệt
60 931
4German (de)
Search and Destroy
51 560
5French (fr)
Recherche et destruction
30 541
6Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
29 822
7Portuguese (pt)
Procurar e destruir
17 166
8Chinese (zh)
搜索与歼灭
14 023
9Slovenian (sl)
Išči in uniči
5 702
10Czech (cs)
Najdi a znič
5 463
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Search and Destroy" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Search and destroy
4 681
2Russian (ru)
Найти и уничтожить
364
3German (de)
Search and Destroy
226
4Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
217
5Portuguese (pt)
Procurar e destruir
109
6French (fr)
Recherche et destruction
93
7Chinese (zh)
搜索与歼灭
91
8Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y destrucción
85
9Dutch (nl)
Search and destroy (doctrine)
77
10Czech (cs)
Najdi a znič
47
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Search and Destroy" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Search and destroy
140
2Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến lược tìm và diệt
29
3French (fr)
Recherche et destruction
19
4Russian (ru)
Найти и уничтожить
15
5Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
10
6Czech (cs)
Najdi a znič
6
7Dutch (nl)
Search and destroy (doctrine)
6
8Portuguese (pt)
Procurar e destruir
6
9Slovenian (sl)
Išči in uniči
5
10Chinese (zh)
搜索与歼灭
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Search and Destroy" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Search and destroy
2
2Persian (fa)
جستجو و نابودی
2
3Azerbaijani (az)
Axtar və məhv et
0
4Belarusian (be)
Знайсці і знішчыць
0
5Czech (cs)
Najdi a znič
0
6German (de)
Search and Destroy
0
7Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y destrucción
0
8Finnish (fi)
Etsi ja tuhoa
0
9French (fr)
Recherche et destruction
0
10Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Search and Destroy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Search and destroy
296
2Portuguese (pt)
Procurar e destruir
250
3Belarusian (be)
Знайсці і знішчыць
99
4German (de)
Search and Destroy
39
5Italian (it)
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
36
6French (fr)
Recherche et destruction
34
7Spanish (es)
Búsqueda y destrucción
21
8Slovenian (sl)
Išči in uniči
14
9Chinese (zh)
搜索与歼灭
13
10Russian (ru)
Найти и уничтожить
12
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
azAzerbaijani
Axtar və məhv et
beBelarusian
Знайсці і знішчыць
csCzech
Najdi a znič
deGerman
Search and Destroy
enEnglish
Search and destroy
esSpanish
Búsqueda y destrucción
faPersian
جستجو و نابودی
fiFinnish
Etsi ja tuhoa
frFrench
Recherche et destruction
itItalian
Search and destroy (tattica militare)
msMalay
Cari dan musnah
nlDutch
Search and destroy (doctrine)
ptPortuguese
Procurar e destruir
ruRussian
Найти и уничтожить
slSlovenian
Išči in uniči
viVietnamese
Chiến lược tìm và diệt
zhChinese
搜索与歼灭

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#166945
05.2017
Global:
#116901
05.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#27507
08.2015
Global:
#47127
08.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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