Paul is dead

Quality:

17

Paul is dead - urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a look-alike. Article "Paul is dead" in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 164 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4500^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8770^th most popular in AI.

In July 2024 the article "Paul is dead" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Paul is dead", its content was written by 1129 registered users of English Wikipedia (4500^th place) and edited by 2623 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8770^th place).

The article is cited 926 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4859 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #507 in July 2004
• Global: #1648 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2852 in September 2009
• Global: #3570 in September 2009

There are 33 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Paul is dead		85.7143
2	Russian (ru) Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни		70.6374
3	Hungarian (hu) Paul halott		61.9542
4	Italian (it) Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney		57.9689
5	Dutch (nl) Paul is dead		54.3864
6	Czech (cs) Konspirační teorie o smrti Paula McCartneyho		51.4159
7	Polish (pl) Paul nie żyje		46.884
8	Thai (th) พอลตายแล้ว		43.9481
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tin đồn về cái chết của Paul McCartney		40.0788
10	Portuguese (pt) Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney		36.761

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul is dead		9 767 743
2	Spanish (es) Paul está muerto		2 721 346
3	Italian (it) Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney		1 849 636
4	German (de) Paul is dead		868 788
5	Portuguese (pt) Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney		777 442
6	Russian (ru) Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни		604 581
7	Polish (pl) Paul nie żyje		542 851
8	Dutch (nl) Paul is dead		431 145
9	French (fr) Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney		360 953
10	Japanese (ja) ポール死亡説		322 758

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) Paul is dead		28 506
2	Spanish (es) Paul está muerto		4 634
3	Italian (it) Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney		2 625
4	Russian (ru) Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни		1 510
5	German (de) Paul is dead		1 373
6	Japanese (ja) ポール死亡説		1 037
7	Portuguese (pt) Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney		1 001
8	Polish (pl) Paul nie żyje		808
9	French (fr) Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney		692
10	Dutch (nl) Paul is dead		512

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul is dead		1 129
2	Italian (it) Leggenda della morte di Paul McCartney		211
3	Spanish (es) Paul está muerto		194
4	German (de) Paul is dead		184
5	Dutch (nl) Paul is dead		172
6	Hebrew (he) תאוריית הקשר על מותו של פול מקרטני		124
7	Russian (ru) Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни		119
8	French (fr) Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney		76
9	Portuguese (pt) Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney		69
10	Polish (pl) Paul nie żyje		62

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) Paul is dead		4
2	Russian (ru) Легенда о смерти Пола Маккартни		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Paul halott		2
4	French (fr) Légende sur la mort de Paul McCartney		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Lenda da morte de Paul McCartney		1
6	Arabic (ar) أسطورة بول ميت		0
7	Belarusian (be) Легенда пра смерць Пола Мак-Картні		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Пол е мъртъв		0
9	Czech (cs) Konspirační teorie o smrti Paula McCartneyho		0
10	Danish (da) Paul is Dead		0

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

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