Common Sense

Quality:

Common Sense - pamphlet by Thomas Paine. This book is the 703^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 403^rd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Common Sense” in English Wikipedia has 59.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.14 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 403^rd most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 703^rd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Common Sense” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Common Sense”, its content was written by 486 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 862 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Common Sense is on the 403^rd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 703^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 466 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1071 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1283 in October 2012
• Global: #3544 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8775 in October 2013
• Global: #20176 in October 2009

There are 27 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) Common Sense		59.617
2	Ukrainian (uk) Здоровий глузд (памфлет)		45.3849
3	Latin (la) Common Sense		45.3717
4	Russian (ru) Здравый смысл (памфлет)		42.9978
5	German (de) Common Sense (Pamphlet)		33.154
6	Portuguese (pt) Common Sense (panfleto)		26.4494
7	Chinese (zh) 常識 (小冊子)		25.9569
8	Catalan (ca) Sentit comú (Thomas Paine)		25.6223
9	Finnish (fi) Common Sense (pamfletti)		24.4294
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lẽ thường (sách)		24.3715

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common Sense		6 221 311
2	Japanese (ja) コモン・センス		365 197
3	Spanish (es) El sentido común		133 179
4	Chinese (zh) 常識 (小冊子)		130 725
5	French (fr) Le Sens commun		119 451
6	German (de) Common Sense (Pamphlet)		43 945
7	Dutch (nl) Common Sense (Thomas Paine)		38 275
8	Indonesian (id) Common Sense (pamflet)		36 905
9	Simple English (simple) Common Sense (pamphlet)		35 296
10	Italian (it) Senso comune (Thomas Paine)		29 467

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) Common Sense		12 322
2	Japanese (ja) コモン・センス		1 415
3	Chinese (zh) 常識 (小冊子)		925
4	Simple English (simple) Common Sense (pamphlet)		907
5	German (de) Common Sense (Pamphlet)		371
6	Spanish (es) El sentido común		341
7	Persian (fa) عقل سلیم (رساله)		290
8	Russian (ru) Здравый смысл (памфлет)		289
9	French (fr) Le Sens commun		262
10	Portuguese (pt) Common Sense (panfleto)		130

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common Sense		486
2	German (de) Common Sense (Pamphlet)		53
3	French (fr) Le Sens commun		46
4	Italian (it) Senso comune (Thomas Paine)		34
5	Hungarian (hu) Józan ész (dokumentum)		28
6	Hebrew (he) שכל ישר (ספר)		24
7	Spanish (es) El sentido común		22
8	Dutch (nl) Common Sense (Thomas Paine)		22
9	Simple English (simple) Common Sense (pamphlet)		19
10	Chinese (zh) 常識 (小冊子)		19

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) Common Sense		3
2	German (de) Common Sense (Pamphlet)		1
3	Arabic (ar) الفطرة السليمة (منشور)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Здравият разум (памфлет)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Sentit comú (Thomas Paine)		0
6	Czech (cs) Common Sense		0
7	Spanish (es) El sentido común		0
8	Basque (eu) Common Sense		0
9	Persian (fa) عقل سلیم (رساله)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Common Sense (pamfletti)		0

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

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