Grandfather clause

Quality:

Grandfather clause - provision in which existing cases are exempt from a new rule which will apply to future cases. Article “Grandfather clause” in English Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 7 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 “Grandfather clause”, its content was written by 378 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 567 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 840 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6391 in March 2004
• Global: #8668 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2102 in October 2015
• Global: #7294 in October 2015

There are 13 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	German (de) Bestandsschutz		44.4055
2	Simple English (simple) Grandfather clause		23.8904
3	Russian (ru) Дедушкина оговорка		20.9127
4	Chinese (zh) 祖父條款		20.0857
5	Esperanto (eo) Ava klaŭzo		19.3231
6	English (en) Grandfather clause		19.1007
7	Korean (ko) 할아버지 조항		15.8903
8	Finnish (fi) Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke		14.4489
9	Czech (cs) Dědečkovská klauzule		12.1594
10	Swedish (sv) Övergångsbestämmelse		10.7583

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grandfather clause		4 505 001
2	German (de) Bestandsschutz		734 273
3	Russian (ru) Дедушкина оговорка		217 766
4	French (fr) Clause d'antériorité		121 070
5	Chinese (zh) 祖父條款		91 664
6	Swedish (sv) Övergångsbestämmelse		14 759
7	Czech (cs) Dědečkovská klauzule		8 922
8	Bulgarian (bg) Заварено положение		5 690
9	Finnish (fi) Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke		2 540
10	Esperanto (eo) Ava klaŭzo		1 884

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) Grandfather clause		14 504
2	German (de) Bestandsschutz		930
3	Russian (ru) Дедушкина оговорка		833
4	Chinese (zh) 祖父條款		586
5	French (fr) Clause d'antériorité		375
6	Simple English (simple) Grandfather clause		165
7	Swedish (sv) Övergångsbestämmelse		35
8	Bulgarian (bg) Заварено положение		23
9	Czech (cs) Dědečkovská klauzule		23
10	Korean (ko) 할아버지 조항		22

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Grandfather clause		378
2	German (de) Bestandsschutz		91
3	French (fr) Clause d'antériorité		25
4	Russian (ru) Дедушкина оговорка		25
5	Swedish (sv) Övergångsbestämmelse		12
6	Chinese (zh) 祖父條款		12
7	Bulgarian (bg) Заварено положение		6
8	Czech (cs) Dědečkovská klauzule		5
9	Esperanto (eo) Ava klaŭzo		3
10	Finnish (fi) Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke		3

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	Chinese (zh) 祖父條款		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Заварено положение		0
3	Czech (cs) Dědečkovská klauzule		0
4	German (de) Bestandsschutz		0
5	English (en) Grandfather clause		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Ava klaŭzo		0
7	Finnish (fi) Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke		0
8	French (fr) Clause d'antériorité		0
9	Korean (ko) 할아버지 조항		0
10	Russian (ru) Дедушкина оговорка		0

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

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