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Appeal to motive

Quality:

Appeal to motive - a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. Article “Appeal to motive” in English Wikipedia has 17.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Appeal to motive”, its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 98 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 161 times in English Wikipedia and cited 685 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #63975 in September 2004
  • Global: #129000 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #532241 in April 2008
  • Global: #475055 in July 2015

There are 11 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
1Azerbaijani (az)
Motivə müraciət
21.3627
2Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
21.3622
3Portuguese (pt)
Julgamento da intenção
19.6384
4French (fr)
Procès d'intention
18.8626
5English (en)
Appeal to motive
17.3923
6Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
15.9461
7Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
8.9823
8Chinese (zh)
訴諸動機
6.0285
9Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
2.7442
10Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
1.7705
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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 "Appeal to motive" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
Procès d'intention
270 350
2English (en)
Appeal to motive
158 219
3Chinese (zh)
訴諸動機
44 066
4Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
5 921
5Portuguese (pt)
Julgamento da intenção
5 341
6Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
4 500
7Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a les motivacions
2 643
8Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
1 297
9Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
512
10Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
340
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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 "Appeal to motive" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Appeal to motive
789
2French (fr)
Procès d'intention
580
3Chinese (zh)
訴諸動機
225
4Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
23
5Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
19
6Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a les motivacions
17
7Portuguese (pt)
Julgamento da intenção
15
8Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
14
9Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
12
10Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
7
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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 "Appeal to motive" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Appeal to motive
48
2French (fr)
Procès d'intention
17
3Chinese (zh)
訴諸動機
9
4Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a les motivacions
6
5Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
5
6Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
4
7Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
2
8Portuguese (pt)
Julgamento da intenção
2
9Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
2
10Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
2
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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 "Appeal to motive" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Procès d'intention
1
2Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Motivə müraciət
0
4Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a les motivacions
0
5English (en)
Appeal to motive
0
6Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
0
7Portuguese (pt)
Julgamento da intenção
0
8Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
0
9Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
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 "Appeal to motive" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Chinese (zh)
訴諸動機
184
2English (en)
Appeal to motive
161
3Arabic (ar)
مغالطة الدافع
125
4Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до мотиву
125
5Serbian (sr)
Позивање на мотив
61
6French (fr)
Procès d'intention
16
7Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a les motivacions
4
8Romanian (ro)
Proces de intenție
4
9Lithuanian (lt)
Apeliavimas į motyvus
3
10Azerbaijani (az)
Motivə müraciət
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مغالطة الدافع
azAzerbaijani
Motivə müraciət
caCatalan
Apel·lació a les motivacions
enEnglish
Appeal to motive
frFrench
Procès d'intention
ltLithuanian
Apeliavimas į motyvus
ptPortuguese
Julgamento da intenção
roRomanian
Proces de intenție
srSerbian
Позивање на мотив
ukUkrainian
Звернення до мотиву
zhChinese
訴諸動機

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#532241
04.2008
Global:
#475055
07.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#63975
09.2004
Global:
#129000
09.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Appeal to motive from Wikipedia articles about List of fallacies, Mansplaining, Ad hominem, Bulverism and Cultural Revolution. Whereas reading the article about Appeal to motive people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sophism, Ad hominem, Straw man argument, Informal fallacy and Bulverism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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