Problem of evil

Quality:

Problem of evil - question on reconciling the existence of evil with an omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent God. Article "Problem of evil" in English Wikipedia has 88.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 343 references and 36 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Problem of evil" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Problem of evil", its content was written by 821 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1605 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 968 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4151 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #83 in March 2002
• Global: #108 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7306 in August 2009
• Global: #15030 in August 2009

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 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		91.4254
2	English (en) Problem of evil		88.5134
3	Italian (it) Problema del male		85.9635
4	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		83.6364
5	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		69.8254
6	Indonesian (id) Masalah kejahatan (filsafat)		67.1184
7	Greek (el) Πρόβλημα του κακού		58.0409
8	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		55.7118
9	Ukrainian (uk) Проблема зла		37.5999
10	Uzbek (uz) Yovuzlik muammosi		37.3413

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Problem of evil		5 360 347
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		1 036 073
3	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		324 284
4	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		292 514
5	Italian (it) Problema del male		259 502
6	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		246 522
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		209 518
8	Portuguese (pt) Problema do mal		182 233
9	Finnish (fi) Pahan ongelma		132 720
10	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الشر		127 865

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) Problem of evil		15 522
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		2 242
3	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		1 607
4	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		1 547
5	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		871
6	Italian (it) Problema del male		716
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		647
8	Portuguese (pt) Problema do mal		443
9	Simple English (simple) Problem of evil		440
10	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الشر		387

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Problem of evil		821
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		114
3	Italian (it) Problema del male		74
4	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		73
5	Finnish (fi) Pahan ongelma		56
6	Swedish (sv) Det ondas problem		47
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		41
8	Dutch (nl) Probleem van het lijden		39
9	Norwegian (no) Det ondes problem		35
10	Polish (pl) Problem zła		32

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) Problem of evil		5
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		1
3	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		1
4	Italian (it) Problema del male		1
5	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		1
6	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الشر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şər problemi		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Проблем за злото		0
9	Catalan (ca) Problema del mal		0
10	Greek (el) Πρόβλημα του κακού		0

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

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