Hanlon's razor

Quality:

Hanlon's razor - philosophical adage stating "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.". Article "Hanlon's razor" in English Wikipedia has 32.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 18 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 9655th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Hanlon's razor" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Hanlon's razor", its content was written by 335 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1021 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in English Wikipedia and cited 176 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #390 in August 2001
  • Global: #432 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #4345 in January 2018
  • Global: #6862 in May 2024

There are 35 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 August 1, 2024 (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
1French (fr)
Rasoir de Hanlon
76.0553
2Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
65.9946
3English (en)
Hanlon's razor
32.86
4Italian (it)
Rasoio di Hanlon
31.9335
5Chinese (zh)
汉隆剃刀
31.6122
6Greek (el)
Ξυράφι του Χάνλον
27.7188
7German (de)
Hanlon’s Razor
27.6514
8Thai (th)
ใบมีดของฮานลอน
27.4974
9Arabic (ar)
نصل هانلون
27.2083
10Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Hanlonova britva
26.6222
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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 "Hanlon's razor" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Hanlon's razor
6 595 377
2Russian (ru)
Бритва Хэнлона
1 218 467
3Japanese (ja)
ハンロンの剃刀
595 628
4German (de)
Hanlon’s Razor
505 089
5Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
408 244
6French (fr)
Rasoir de Hanlon
324 673
7Italian (it)
Rasoio di Hanlon
273 453
8Simple English (simple)
Hanlon's razor
245 445
9Portuguese (pt)
Navalha de Hanlon
144 253
10Swedish (sv)
Hanlons rakkniv
81 178
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Hanlon's razor" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Hanlon's razor
75 173
2Japanese (ja)
ハンロンの剃刀
7 809
3Russian (ru)
Бритва Хэнлона
6 166
4Simple English (simple)
Hanlon's razor
5 080
5German (de)
Hanlon’s Razor
4 480
6French (fr)
Rasoir de Hanlon
4 299
7Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
2 707
8Polish (pl)
Brzytwa Hanlona
2 431
9Italian (it)
Rasoio di Hanlon
1 401
10Portuguese (pt)
Navalha de Hanlon
802
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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 "Hanlon's razor" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Hanlon's razor
335
2French (fr)
Rasoir de Hanlon
90
3German (de)
Hanlon’s Razor
72
4Russian (ru)
Бритва Хэнлона
68
5Italian (it)
Rasoio di Hanlon
61
6Dutch (nl)
Scheermes van Hanlon
54
7Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
39
8Hungarian (hu)
Hanlon borotvája
31
9Japanese (ja)
ハンロンの剃刀
31
10Hebrew (he)
התער של הנלון
25
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Hanlon's razor" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Belarusian (be)
Брытва Хэнлана
2
2Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
2
3English (en)
Hanlon's razor
1
4Chinese (zh)
汉隆剃刀
1
5Arabic (ar)
نصل هانلون
0
6Azerbaijani (az)
Henlon ülgücü
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Бръснач на Ханлън
0
8Catalan (ca)
Navalla de Hanlon
0
9Czech (cs)
Hanlonova břitva
0
10Danish (da)
Hanlons ragekniv
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 "Hanlon's razor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Hanlon's razor
37
2French (fr)
Rasoir de Hanlon
14
3Russian (ru)
Бритва Хэнлона
12
4Portuguese (pt)
Navalha de Hanlon
9
5Serbian (sr)
Ханлонова бритва
9
6Spanish (es)
Principio de Hanlon
8
7Dutch (nl)
Scheermes van Hanlon
8
8Japanese (ja)
ハンロンの剃刀
7
9Ukrainian (uk)
Бритва Генлона
7
10Chinese (zh)
汉隆剃刀
7
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نصل هانلون
azAzerbaijani
Henlon ülgücü
beBelarusian
Брытва Хэнлана
bgBulgarian
Бръснач на Ханлън
caCatalan
Navalla de Hanlon
csCzech
Hanlonova břitva
daDanish
Hanlons ragekniv
deGerman
Hanlon’s Razor
elGreek
Ξυράφι του Χάνλον
enEnglish
Hanlon's razor
eoEsperanto
Razklingo de Hanlon
esSpanish
Principio de Hanlon
etEstonian
Hanloni habemenuga
euBasque
Hanlonen printzipioa
faPersian
تیغ هنلون
fiFinnish
Hanlonin partaveitsi
frFrench
Rasoir de Hanlon
heHebrew
התער של הנלון
huHungarian
Hanlon borotvája
hyArmenian
Հենլոնի ածելի
itItalian
Rasoio di Hanlon
jaJapanese
ハンロンの剃刀
koKorean
핸런의 면도날
nlDutch
Scheermes van Hanlon
plPolish
Brzytwa Hanlona
ptPortuguese
Navalha de Hanlon
ruRussian
Бритва Хэнлона
shSerbo-Croatian
Hanlonova britva
simpleSimple English
Hanlon's razor
skSlovak
Hanlonova britva
srSerbian
Ханлонова бритва
svSwedish
Hanlons rakkniv
thThai
ใบมีดของฮานลอน
ukUkrainian
Бритва Генлона
zhChinese
汉隆剃刀

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4345
01.2018
Global:
#6862
05.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#390
08.2001
Global:
#432
08.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Hanlon's razor from Wikipedia articles about Occams razor, Philosophical razor, Murphys law, Dunning–Kruger effect and Conspiracy theory. Whereas reading the article about Hanlon's razor people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Occams razor, Philosophical razor, Mike Alder, Murphys law and Hitchens razor.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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