Straw man

Quality:

Straw man argument - form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. Article "Straw man" in English Wikipedia has 44.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 35 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Straw man", its content was written by 598 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1444 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 398 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1790 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20 in August 2001
• Global: #25 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5505 in January 2015
• Global: #5652 in July 2018

There are 36 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) Straw man		44.2558
2	Basque (eu) Lastozko gizonaren falazia		36.1157
3	Polish (pl) Sofizmat rozszerzenia		30.9662
4	Estonian (et) Õlgmees		28.1596
5	Arabic (ar) مغالطة رجل القش		27.9406
6	Simple English (simple) Straw man		27.4346
7	Turkish (tr) Korkuluk mantık hatası		27.2381
8	Swedish (sv) Halmdocka		25.601
9	Portuguese (pt) Falácia do espantalho		25.2011
10	Finnish (fi) Olkinukke		25.0396

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Straw man		12 815 427
2	Spanish (es) Falacia del hombre de paja		1 339 065
3	Japanese (ja) ストローマン		856 209
4	German (de) Strohmann-Argument		782 575
5	Chinese (zh) 稻草人論證		433 184
6	French (fr) Épouvantail (rhétorique)		409 233
7	Portuguese (pt) Falácia do espantalho		400 244
8	Finnish (fi) Olkinukke		260 982
9	Arabic (ar) مغالطة رجل القش		223 524
10	Swedish (sv) Halmdocka		203 739

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) Straw man		43 830
2	Japanese (ja) ストローマン		8 722
3	Spanish (es) Falacia del hombre de paja		7 547
4	German (de) Strohmann-Argument		5 215
5	Arabic (ar) مغالطة رجل القش		3 917
6	Chinese (zh) 稻草人論證		2 834
7	French (fr) Épouvantail (rhétorique)		2 679
8	Polish (pl) Sofizmat rozszerzenia		1 365
9	Italian (it) Argomento fantoccio		1 303
10	Portuguese (pt) Falácia do espantalho		1 285

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Straw man		598
2	German (de) Strohmann-Argument		96
3	Spanish (es) Falacia del hombre de paja		82
4	French (fr) Épouvantail (rhétorique)		63
5	Finnish (fi) Olkinukke		55
6	Japanese (ja) ストローマン		49
7	Hebrew (he) איש קש (כשל לוגי)		47
8	Portuguese (pt) Falácia do espantalho		40
9	Swedish (sv) Halmdocka		39
10	Italian (it) Argomento fantoccio		37

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	Spanish (es) Falacia del hombre de paja		2
2	French (fr) Épouvantail (rhétorique)		2
3	Catalan (ca) Home de palla		1
4	Persian (fa) مغالطه پهلوان‌پنبه		1
5	Japanese (ja) ストローマン		1
6	Turkish (tr) Korkuluk mantık hatası		1
7	Arabic (ar) مغالطة رجل القش		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Saman adam		0
9	Danish (da) Stråmand		0
10	German (de) Strohmann-Argument		0

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

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