False attribution

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False attribution

Quality:

False attribution - specific fallacy where an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument. Article “False attribution” in English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “False attribution”, its content was written by 39 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 83 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 506 times in English Wikipedia and cited 916 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #49490 in October 2021
  • Global: #50805 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #455350 in July 2016
  • Global: #725660 in July 2016

There are 11 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
28.251
2Ukrainian (uk)
Помилкова атрибуція
25.9075
3Chinese (zh)
假資訊來源
22.6434
4Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
22.4968
5Dutch (nl)
Verkeerde toeschrijving
21.9162
6Thai (th)
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
21.883
7English (en)
False attribution
21.7012
8Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
20.5622
9Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
20.53
10Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
18.0672
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "False attribution" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
False attribution
216 818
2Chinese (zh)
假資訊來源
14 634
3Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
11 968
4German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
7 739
5Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
2 438
6Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
2 277
7Dutch (nl)
Verkeerde toeschrijving
636
8Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
631
9Ukrainian (uk)
Помилкова атрибуція
466
10Czech (cs)
Chybné přisouzení
282
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "False attribution" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
False attribution
1 258
2German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
161
3Chinese (zh)
假資訊來源
80
4Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
43
5Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
36
6Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
28
7Czech (cs)
Chybné přisouzení
17
8Thai (th)
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
16
9Ukrainian (uk)
Помилкова атрибуція
16
10Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "False attribution" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
False attribution
39
2German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
15
3Chinese (zh)
假資訊來源
9
4Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
4
5Dutch (nl)
Verkeerde toeschrijving
4
6Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
3
7Czech (cs)
Chybné přisouzení
2
8Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
2
9Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
2
10Thai (th)
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "False attribution" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
1
2Czech (cs)
Chybné přisouzení
1
3German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
0
4English (en)
False attribution
0
5Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
0
6Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
0
7Dutch (nl)
Verkeerde toeschrijving
0
8Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
0
9Thai (th)
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Помилкова атрибуція
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "False attribution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
False attribution
506
2Arabic (ar)
إسناد زائف
146
3Ukrainian (uk)
Помилкова атрибуція
125
4Persian (fa)
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
69
5Thai (th)
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
33
6Chinese (zh)
假資訊來源
15
7German (de)
Kuckuckszitat
9
8Spanish (es)
Falsa atribución
5
9Portuguese (pt)
Atribuição falsa
5
10Dutch (nl)
Verkeerde toeschrijving
3
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إسناد زائف
csCzech
Chybné přisouzení
deGerman
Kuckuckszitat
enEnglish
False attribution
esSpanish
Falsa atribución
faPersian
مغالطه انتساب جعلی
nlDutch
Verkeerde toeschrijving
ptPortuguese
Atribuição falsa
thThai
การให้แหล่งข้อมูลเท็จ
ukUkrainian
Помилкова атрибуція
zhChinese
假資訊來源

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#455350
07.2016
Global:
#725660
07.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#49490
10.2021
Global:
#50805
06.2022

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on False attribution from Wikipedia articles about Albert Einstein, Pseudepigraph, List of fallacies, Black Hawk Down and Apocrypha. Whereas reading the article about False attribution people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Matthew effect, Mikhail Gorbachev, Churchillian Drift, Fallacy of quoting out of context and Straw man argument.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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