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 21.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.44 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 2026 the article “Formal fallacy” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Formal fallacy”, its content was written by 519 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 619 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 537 times in English Wikipedia and cited 843 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #99 in May 2003
• Global: #535 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9150 in June 2015
• Global: #19701 in June 2008

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, 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	English (en) Formal fallacy		21.931
2	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		16.3471
3	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		15.8788
4	Azerbaijani (az) Formal yanlışlıq		13.7848
5	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		10.9005
6	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		7.9096
7	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		7.8651
8	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		7.7443
9	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		6.9014
10	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		5.8641

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Formal fallacy		7 052 834
2	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		159 329
3	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		71 348
4	Swedish (sv) Felslut		58 363
5	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		50 471
6	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		41 259
7	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		32 283
8	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		4 205
9	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		4 046
10	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		572

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		7 148
2	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		273
3	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		199
4	Swedish (sv) Felslut		148
5	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		99
6	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		61
7	Korean (ko) 형식적 오류		37
8	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		18
9	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		14
10	Azerbaijani (az) Formal yanlışlıq		6

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		519
2	Portuguese (pt) Falácia formal		21
3	Polish (pl) Błąd formalny		20
4	Swedish (sv) Felslut		18
5	Arabic (ar) مغالطة صورية		12
6	Chinese (zh) 形式謬誤		11
7	Bulgarian (bg) Формална логическа грешка		6
8	Romanian (ro) Erori formale de logică		5
9	Indonesian (id) Kesesatan formal		4
10	Azerbaijani (az) Formal yanlışlıq		2

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

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

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