Formal fallacy

Quality:

Formal fallacy - deductive argument that is invalid due to faulty reasoning, regardless of the truthiness of the conclusion. Article “Formal fallacy” in English Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.51 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.

In June 2025 the article “Formal fallacy” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Formal fallacy”, its content was written by 511 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 604 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 552 times in English Wikipedia and cited 846 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #99 in May 2003
• Global: #534 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9097 in June 2015
• Global: #19674 in June 2008

There are 10 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) Formal fallacy		19.9162
2	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		17.4769
3	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		15.929
4	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		11.1096
5	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		8.3178
6	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		8.234
7	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		7.8654
8	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		7.1088
9	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		5.8592
10	Swedish (sv) Felslut		5.3588

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Formal fallacy		6 917 539
2	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		155 042
3	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		68 206
4	Swedish (sv) Felslut		56 777
5	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		49 522
6	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		39 246
7	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		31 599
8	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		4 039
9	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		3 839
10	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		350

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) Formal fallacy		13 059
2	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		340
3	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		303
4	Swedish (sv) Felslut		148
5	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		145
6	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		97
7	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		84
8	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		76
9	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		28
10	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		23

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Formal fallacy		511
2	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		20
3	Swedish (sv) Felslut		18
4	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		17
5	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		12
6	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		11
7	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		6
8	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		4
9	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		4
10	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		1

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	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		4
2	English (en) Formal fallacy		1
3	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		0
5	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		0
6	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		0
8	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		0
9	Swedish (sv) Felslut		0
10	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		0

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

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