Citizen's arrest

Quality:

Citizen's arrest - The concept of a private citizen being able to make a formal arrest. Article “Citizen's arrest” in English Wikipedia has 69 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 129 references and 45 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.63 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Citizen's arrest”, its content was written by 417 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 634 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 186 times in English Wikipedia and cited 396 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #779 in July 2003
• Global: #3619 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16757 in April 2013
• Global: #2435 in October 2017

There are 15 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) Citizen's arrest		68.965
2	Malay (ms) Tangkapan awam		25.1439
3	Chinese (zh) 公民逮捕		25.1072
4	Spanish (es) Detención flagrante		23.3502
5	Dutch (nl) Burgerarrest		21.3541
6	Russian (ru) Гражданский арест		19.2518
7	Norwegian (no) Borgerarrest		18.7401
8	Persian (fa) بازداشت توسط شهروندان		18.4138
9	Japanese (ja) 私人逮捕		18.069
10	Swedish (sv) Envarsgripande		17.7134

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Citizen's arrest		4 158 391
2	Japanese (ja) 私人逮捕		1 220 876
3	Italian (it) Arresto in flagranza di reato		343 772
4	Russian (ru) Гражданский арест		277 240
5	Dutch (nl) Burgerarrest		228 148
6	Swedish (sv) Envarsgripande		202 175
7	Danish (da) Civil anholdelse		82 057
8	Spanish (es) Detención flagrante		70 056
9	Finnish (fi) Yleinen kiinniotto-oikeus		42 353
10	Norwegian (no) Borgerarrest		36 678

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) Citizen's arrest		14 354
2	Japanese (ja) 私人逮捕		3 422
3	Russian (ru) Гражданский арест		1 249
4	Swedish (sv) Envarsgripande		396
5	Dutch (nl) Burgerarrest		342
6	Italian (it) Arresto in flagranza di reato		285
7	French (fr) Arrestation citoyenne		273
8	Finnish (fi) Yleinen kiinniotto-oikeus		270
9	Spanish (es) Detención flagrante		170
10	Chinese (zh) 公民逮捕		161

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Citizen's arrest		417
2	Italian (it) Arresto in flagranza di reato		41
3	Japanese (ja) 私人逮捕		38
4	Dutch (nl) Burgerarrest		36
5	Russian (ru) Гражданский арест		28
6	Danish (da) Civil anholdelse		20
7	Norwegian (no) Borgerarrest		12
8	Swedish (sv) Envarsgripande		12
9	Chinese (zh) 公民逮捕		8
10	Spanish (es) Detención flagrante		7

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	Danish (da) Civil anholdelse		0
2	English (en) Citizen's arrest		0
3	Spanish (es) Detención flagrante		0
4	Persian (fa) بازداشت توسط شهروندان		0
5	Finnish (fi) Yleinen kiinniotto-oikeus		0
6	French (fr) Arrestation citoyenne		0
7	Italian (it) Arresto in flagranza di reato		0
8	Japanese (ja) 私人逮捕		0
9	Korean (ko) 사인체포		0
10	Malay (ms) Tangkapan awam		0

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

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