Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - 1968 murder of Martin Luther King Jr.. Article “Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 222 references and 31 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.”, its content was written by 712 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1476 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2830 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #168 in April 2018
• Global: #657 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #598 in January 2014
• Global: #1357 in June 2020

There are 23 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Martin Luther King Jr.		100
3	Chinese (zh) 馬丁·路德·金恩遇刺案		71.6108
4	Arabic (ar) اغتيال مارتن لوثر كينج الابن		55.142
5	Polish (pl) Zamach na Martina Luthera Kinga		45.8968
6	Italian (it) Assassinio di Martin Luther King		41.5106
7	French (fr) Assassinat de Martin Luther King		39.3769
8	Persian (fa) ترور مارتین لوتر کینگ جونیور		39.327
9	Simple English (simple) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		37.53
10	Turkish (tr) Martin Luther King Jr. suikastı		36.8059

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		15 356 311
2	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Martin Luther King		979 557
3	German (de) Attentat auf Martin Luther King		979 181
4	French (fr) Assassinat de Martin Luther King		533 396
5	Russian (ru) Убийство Мартина Лютера Кинга		492 202
6	Italian (it) Assassinio di Martin Luther King		421 035
7	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Martin Luther King Jr.		388 827
8	Chinese (zh) 馬丁·路德·金恩遇刺案		198 132
9	Dutch (nl) Moord op Martin Luther King Jr.		65 905
10	Hebrew (he) רצח מרטין לותר קינג		65 496

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		50 661
2	French (fr) Assassinat de Martin Luther King		2 368
3	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Martin Luther King		2 357
4	Russian (ru) Убийство Мартина Лютера Кинга		2 328
5	German (de) Attentat auf Martin Luther King		2 060
6	Italian (it) Assassinio di Martin Luther King		1 219
7	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Martin Luther King Jr.		839
8	Simple English (simple) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		828
9	Chinese (zh) 馬丁·路德·金恩遇刺案		792
10	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア暗殺事件		655

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		712
2	German (de) Attentat auf Martin Luther King		142
3	Italian (it) Assassinio di Martin Luther King		66
4	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Martin Luther King		59
5	Russian (ru) Убийство Мартина Лютера Кинга		52
6	French (fr) Assassinat de Martin Luther King		46
7	Chinese (zh) 馬丁·路德·金恩遇刺案		38
8	Hebrew (he) רצח מרטין לותר קינג		33
9	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Martin Luther King Jr.		29
10	Czech (cs) Atentát na Martina Luthera Kinga		24

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.		8
2	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Martin Luther King		3
3	Russian (ru) Убийство Мартина Лютера Кинга		3
4	Hebrew (he) רצח מרטין לותר קינג		2
5	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア暗殺事件		2
6	French (fr) Assassinat de Martin Luther King		1
7	Italian (it) Assassinio di Martin Luther King		1
8	Arabic (ar) اغتيال مارتن لوثر كينج الابن		0
9	Czech (cs) Atentát na Martina Luthera Kinga		0
10	German (de) Attentat auf Martin Luther King		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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