Fair dealing

Fair dealing - a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations. Article “Fair dealing” in English Wikipedia has 45.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.4 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 “Fair dealing”, its content was written by 146 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 144 times in English Wikipedia and cited 272 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5414 in May 2003
• Global: #10927 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #88844 in March 2014
• Global: #151467 in March 2014

There are 9 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) Fair dealing		45.6239
2	Russian (ru) Честное использование		31.1467
3	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		24.5915
4	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		18.5035
5	Italian (it) Fair dealing		15.4608
6	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		12.0724
7	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		10.0811
8	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		8.4631
9	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		8.1635

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fair dealing" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fair dealing		1 170 187
2	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		46 274
3	Italian (it) Fair dealing		36 013
4	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		31 311
5	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		22 346
6	Russian (ru) Честное использование		17 133
7	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		3 008
8	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		1 902
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		252

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fair dealing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fair dealing		2 042
2	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		75
3	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		57
4	Italian (it) Fair dealing		43
5	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		38
6	Russian (ru) Честное использование		33
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		18
8	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		15
9	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		11

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

Language versions of the article "Fair dealing" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fair dealing		146
2	Italian (it) Fair dealing		39
3	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		26
4	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		13
5	Russian (ru) Честное использование		5
6	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		3
7	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		3
8	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		3
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		2

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

Language versions of the article "Fair dealing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		0
3	English (en) Fair dealing		0
4	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		0
5	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		0
6	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		0
7	Italian (it) Fair dealing		0
8	Russian (ru) Честное использование		0
9	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		0

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

Language versions of the article "Fair dealing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fair dealing		144
2	Azerbaijani (az) Ədalətli rəftar		29
3	Italian (it) Fair dealing		28
4	Persian (fa) معامله منصفانه		21
5	French (fr) Utilisation équitable		14
6	Arabic (ar) معاملة عادلة		13
7	Russian (ru) Честное использование		11
8	Spanish (es) Fair dealing		6
9	Chinese (zh) 公平處理		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معاملة عادلة
az	Azerbaijani Ədalətli rəftar
en	English Fair dealing
es	Spanish Fair dealing
fa	Persian معامله منصفانه
fr	French Utilisation équitable
it	Italian Fair dealing
ru	Russian Честное использование
zh	Chinese 公平處理

Best Rank

English: #88844 03.2014

Global: #151467 03.2014

Best Rank

English: #5414 05.2003

Global: #10927 05.2003

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