Cliff Burton

Quality:

Cliff Burton - American bassist (1962–1986). This person is the 3259^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Cliff Burton” in English Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 71 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.82 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9320^th most popular in AI.

The 3259^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7894^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8479^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9489^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Cliff Burton” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9489^th place).

Since the creation of article “Cliff Burton”, its content was written by 822 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2660 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9320^th place).

Cliff Burton is on the 3259^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 273 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3042 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #505 in January 2025
• Global: #2429 in July 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1874 in September 2023
• Global: #3032 in September 2023

There are 43 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, 2026 (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	Finnish (fi) Cliff Burton		86
2	English (en) Cliff Burton		72.5195
3	Georgian (ka) კლიფ ბარტონი		66.0819
4	Italian (it) Cliff Burton		61.1569
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кліфф Бертон		57.3584
6	Spanish (es) Cliff Burton		57.1736
7	Slovak (sk) Cliff Burton		44.7988
8	Hungarian (hu) Cliff Burton		44.0717
9	Chinese (zh) 克利夫·伯顿		41.6452
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cliff Burton		41.2318

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cliff Burton		12 369 153
2	Spanish (es) Cliff Burton		3 109 896
3	Russian (ru) Бёртон, Клифф		1 565 284
4	German (de) Cliff Burton		1 529 022
5	Polish (pl) Cliff Burton		993 022
6	Portuguese (pt) Cliff Burton		973 413
7	French (fr) Cliff Burton		929 271
8	Italian (it) Cliff Burton		915 026
9	Swedish (sv) Cliff Burton		490 876
10	Japanese (ja) クリフ・バートン		385 708

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) Cliff Burton		70 129
2	German (de) Cliff Burton		7 812
3	Italian (it) Cliff Burton		4 581
4	Hungarian (hu) Cliff Burton		4 351
5	Russian (ru) Бёртон, Клифф		4 252
6	Spanish (es) Cliff Burton		3 714
7	Polish (pl) Cliff Burton		2 690
8	French (fr) Cliff Burton		2 581
9	Swedish (sv) Cliff Burton		1 531
10	Portuguese (pt) Cliff Burton		1 256

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cliff Burton		822
2	Spanish (es) Cliff Burton		224
3	Italian (it) Cliff Burton		156
4	French (fr) Cliff Burton		153
5	German (de) Cliff Burton		142
6	Russian (ru) Бёртон, Клифф		128
7	Finnish (fi) Cliff Burton		106
8	Turkish (tr) Cliff Burton		81
9	Dutch (nl) Cliff Burton		71
10	Polish (pl) Cliff Burton		70

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) Cliff Burton		7
2	Japanese (ja) クリフ・バートン		4
3	Italian (it) Cliff Burton		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Кліфф Бертон		2
5	Arabic (ar) كليف بيرتون		1
6	Spanish (es) Cliff Burton		1
7	Basque (eu) Cliff Burton		1
8	Finnish (fi) Cliff Burton		1
9	French (fr) Cliff Burton		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Cliff Burton		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information