Mercy rule

Mercy rule - rule that ends a sports event due to an insurmountable lead. Article “Mercy rule” in English Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.66 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 “Mercy rule” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mercy rule”, its content was written by 149 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 446 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1075 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #224 in February 2002
• Global: #300 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19859 in September 2015
• Global: #28747 in August 2015

There are 7 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) Mercy rule		31.462
2	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		27.208
3	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		19.6728
4	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		16.3776
5	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		10.8215
6	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		3.563
7	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		2.6101

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mercy rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercy rule		1 638 775
2	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		1 400 817
3	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		168 772
4	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		95 555
5	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		35 698
6	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		5 695
7	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		2 372

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Mercy rule" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercy rule		3 960
2	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		2 600
3	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		606
4	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		444
5	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		207
6	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		18
7	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		6

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

Language versions of the article "Mercy rule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mercy rule		149
2	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		76
3	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		16
4	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		5
5	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		4
6	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		3
7	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		2

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

Language versions of the article "Mercy rule" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mercy rule		1
2	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		0
3	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		0
4	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		0
5	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		0
7	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		0

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

Language versions of the article "Mercy rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) コールドゲーム		501
2	English (en) Mercy rule		446
3	Chinese (zh) 提前結束比賽		77
4	Korean (ko) 콜드게임		33
5	Spanish (es) Regla de misericordia		11
6	Portuguese (pt) Regra de misericórdia		5
7	Polish (pl) Zasada litości		2

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#	Language	Value
en	English Mercy rule
es	Spanish Regla de misericordia
ja	Japanese コールドゲーム
ko	Korean 콜드게임
pl	Polish Zasada litości
pt	Portuguese Regra de misericórdia
zh	Chinese 提前結束比賽

Best Rank

English: #19859 09.2015

Global: #28747 08.2015

Best Rank

English: #224 02.2002

Global: #300 02.2002

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