Preemptive war

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Preemptive war

Quality:

Preemptive war - war that is initiated in an attempt to deal with an expected attack before that attack materializes. Article “Preemptive war” in English Wikipedia has 61.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 56 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.79 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 2025 the article “Preemptive war” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Preemptive war”, its content was written by 232 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 328 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 487 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1087 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3836 in April 2004
  • Global: #12061 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #46591 in April 2008
  • Global: #76988 in April 2008

There are 9 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
1English (en)
Preemptive war
61.1214
2Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
40.9266
3Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
32.9969
4Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
27.8048
5Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
23.4301
6French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
22.2698
7Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
21.9887
8Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
17.9726
9Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
16.7697
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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 "Preemptive war" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preemptive war
1 635 057
2Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
39 119
3Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
29 533
4Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
19 134
5Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
17 425
6Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
12 176
7Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
9 526
8Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
5 317
9French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
4 048
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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 "Preemptive war" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preemptive war
13 043
2Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
1 764
3Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
1 181
4Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
540
5Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
421
6French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
406
7Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
178
8Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
136
9Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
123
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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 "Preemptive war" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preemptive war
232
2Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
48
3French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
12
4Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
10
5Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
7
6Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
7
7Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
6
8Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
5
9Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
1
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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 "Preemptive war" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preemptive war
6
2Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
3
3French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
2
4Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
0
5Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
0
6Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
0
7Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
0
8Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
0
9Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
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 "Preemptive war" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Preemptive war
487
2Hebrew (he)
מתקפת מנע
248
3French (fr)
Guerre de préemption
205
4Simple English (simple)
Preemptive war
45
5Persian (fa)
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
32
6Czech (cs)
Preemptivní válka
24
7Vietnamese (vi)
Chiến tranh phủ đầu
17
8Arabic (ar)
ضربة استباقية
16
9Polish (pl)
Wojna uprzedzająca
13
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ضربة استباقية
csCzech
Preemptivní válka
enEnglish
Preemptive war
faPersian
جنگ پیش‌دستانه
frFrench
Guerre de préemption
heHebrew
מתקפת מנע
plPolish
Wojna uprzedzająca
simpleSimple English
Preemptive war
viVietnamese
Chiến tranh phủ đầu

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#46591
04.2008
Global:
#76988
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3836
04.2004
Global:
#12061
07.2002

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Preemptive war from Wikipedia articles about Six-Day War, Samson Option, Preventive war, Cult of the offensive and First strike. Whereas reading the article about Preemptive war people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Preventive war, Caroline test, Six-Day War, Preemptive strike and Bush Doctrine.

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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