List of fictional detectives

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List of fictional detectives

Quality:

Fictional detective - detective only appearing in works of fiction. Article “List of fictional detectives” in English Wikipedia has 44.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.35 points.

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

Since the creation of article “List of fictional detectives”, its content was written by 180 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 203 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 121 times in English Wikipedia and cited 204 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #12219 in February 2014
  • Global: #50447 in February 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #19316 in May 2025
  • Global: #40449 in May 2025

There are 3 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
1Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
50.576
2English (en)
List of fictional detectives
44.6664
3Chinese (zh)
名偵探
33.7375
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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 "List of fictional detectives" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
List of fictional detectives
1 075 366
2Chinese (zh)
名偵探
158 033
3Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
112
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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 "List of fictional detectives" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
List of fictional detectives
5 874
2Chinese (zh)
名偵探
630
3Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
112
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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 "List of fictional detectives" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
List of fictional detectives
180
2Chinese (zh)
名偵探
21
3Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
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 "List of fictional detectives" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
3
2English (en)
List of fictional detectives
0
3Chinese (zh)
名偵探
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 "List of fictional detectives" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
List of fictional detectives
121
2Chinese (zh)
名偵探
65
3Romanian (ro)
Listă de detectivi fictivi
18
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
List of fictional detectives
roRomanian
Listă de detectivi fictivi
zhChinese
名偵探

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19316
05.2025
Global:
#40449
05.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#12219
02.2014
Global:
#50447
02.2014

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Fictional detective from Wikipedia articles about Detective fiction, Gentleman thief, List of female detective characters, Detective and Ellery Queen. Whereas reading the article about Fictional detective people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of male detective characters, List of female detective characters, C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and Detective fiction.

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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