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Appeal to pity

Quality:

Appeal to pity - fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. Article “Appeal to pity” in English Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Appeal to pity”, its content was written by 98 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 276 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 176 times in English Wikipedia and cited 803 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4608 in May 2003
  • Global: #10147 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #188127 in October 2009
  • Global: #198762 in November 2019

There are 24 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
1Turkish (tr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
25.8832
2Swedish (sv)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
25.872
3Croatian (hr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
24.6591
4Basque (eu)
Ad misericordiam argudioa
23.6392
5Malay (ms)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
23.6374
6Serbian (sr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
23.2581
7Korean (ko)
감정에 호소하는 논증
22.5168
8Vietnamese (vi)
Vin vào lòng thương hại
22.4389
9English (en)
Appeal to pity
22.205
10Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a la llàstima
20.9835
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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 pity" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Appeal to pity
529 857
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad misericordiam
260 872
3Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
103 640
4Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
65 293
5French (fr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
33 430
6Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
19 250
7Chinese (zh)
訴諸憐憫
19 118
8Finnish (fi)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
14 989
9Japanese (ja)
同情論証
14 149
10Russian (ru)
Argumentum ad Misericordiam
14 125
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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 pity" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Appeal to pity
1 475
2Spanish (es)
Argumento ad misericordiam
370
3Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
168
4French (fr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
138
5Japanese (ja)
同情論証
68
6Chinese (zh)
訴諸憐憫
68
7Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
58
8Korean (ko)
감정에 호소하는 논증
53
9Arabic (ar)
استدرار العطف (مغالطة)
52
10Russian (ru)
Argumentum ad Misericordiam
46
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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 pity" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Appeal to pity
98
2French (fr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
25
3Spanish (es)
Argumento ad misericordiam
15
4Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
15
5Dutch (nl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
14
6Hungarian (hu)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
13
7Arabic (ar)
استدرار العطف (مغالطة)
12
8Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
11
9Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a la llàstima
10
10Finnish (fi)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
10
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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 pity" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
감정에 호소하는 논증
1
2Swedish (sv)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
1
3Arabic (ar)
استدرار العطف (مغالطة)
0
4Catalan (ca)
Apel·lació a la llàstima
0
5English (en)
Appeal to pity
0
6Spanish (es)
Argumento ad misericordiam
0
7Basque (eu)
Ad misericordiam argudioa
0
8Finnish (fi)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
0
9French (fr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
0
10Croatian (hr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
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 pity" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Appeal to pity
176
2Arabic (ar)
استدرار العطف (مغالطة)
152
3Ukrainian (uk)
Звернення до милосердя
136
4Portuguese (pt)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
72
5French (fr)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
70
6Spanish (es)
Argumento ad misericordiam
65
7Japanese (ja)
同情論証
32
8Polish (pl)
Argumentum ad misericordiam
23
9Basque (eu)
Ad misericordiam argudioa
21
10Chinese (zh)
訴諸憐憫
12
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
استدرار العطف (مغالطة)
caCatalan
Apel·lació a la llàstima
enEnglish
Appeal to pity
esSpanish
Argumento ad misericordiam
euBasque
Ad misericordiam argudioa
fiFinnish
Argumentum ad misericordiam
frFrench
Argumentum ad misericordiam
hrCroatian
Argumentum ad misericordiam
huHungarian
Argumentum ad misericordiam
jaJapanese
同情論証
koKorean
감정에 호소하는 논증
ltLithuanian
Apeliavimas į gailestį
msMalay
Argumentum ad misericordiam
nlDutch
Argumentum ad misericordiam
plPolish
Argumentum ad misericordiam
ptPortuguese
Argumentum ad misericordiam
roRomanian
Apelul la milă
ruRussian
Argumentum ad Misericordiam
srSerbian
Argumentum ad misericordiam
svSwedish
Argumentum ad misericordiam
trTurkish
Argumentum ad misericordiam
ukUkrainian
Звернення до милосердя
viVietnamese
Vin vào lòng thương hại
zhChinese
訴諸憐憫

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#188127
10.2009
Global:
#198762
11.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4608
05.2003
Global:
#10147
05.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Appeal to pity from Wikipedia articles about Argument from fallacy, Reductio ad Hitlerum, Fallacy, Logical-linguistic fallacy and Appeal to emotion. Whereas reading the article about Appeal to pity people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ad nauseam, Think of the children, Appeal to consequences, Appeal to emotion and Irrelevant conclusion.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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