Smoking gun

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Smoking gun

Quality:

Smoking gun - term used in reference to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act, just short of being caught in flagrante delicto. Article “Smoking gun” in English Wikipedia has 19.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Smoking gun”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 80 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in English Wikipedia and cited 65 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #81349 in May 2021
  • Global: #82557 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #124546 in June 2008
  • Global: #79249 in December 2016

There are 5 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
1Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
25.4343
2Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
24.9501
3English (en)
Smoking gun
19.696
4Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
0.3279
5Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
0.3069
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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 "Smoking gun" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Smoking gun
842 125
2Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
156 591
3Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
10 225
4Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
3 716
5Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
2 658
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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 "Smoking gun" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Smoking gun
1 852
2Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
365
3Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
226
4Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
57
5Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
5
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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 "Smoking gun" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Smoking gun
55
2Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
10
3Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
7
4Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
6
5Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
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 "Smoking gun" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Smoking gun
0
2Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
0
3Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
0
4Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
0
5Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
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 "Smoking gun" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Smoking gun
39
2Hebrew (he)
אקדח מעשן
10
3Italian (it)
Pistola fumante
10
4Korean (ko)
스모킹 건
6
5Esperanto (eo)
Fumanta fusilo
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Smoking gun
eoEsperanto
Fumanta fusilo
heHebrew
אקדח מעשן
itItalian
Pistola fumante
koKorean
스모킹 건

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#124546
06.2008
Global:
#79249
12.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#81349
05.2021
Global:
#82557
05.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Smoking gun from Wikipedia articles about Watergate scandal, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, In flagrante delicto, Benazir Bhutto and Suicide of Kurt Cobain. Whereas reading the article about Smoking gun people most often go to Wikipedia articles on In flagrante delicto, Nixon White House tapes, Circumstantial evidence, Incontrovertible evidence and Smoking Gun.

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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