Tanker war

Tankers War - protracted series of armed skirmishes against merchant vessels during the Iran–Iraq War. This event is the 8068^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Tanker war” in English Wikipedia has 77.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 249 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.6 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 2026 the article “Tanker war” was edited by 15 authors in English Wikipedia (2448^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tanker war”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 245 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Tankers War is on the 8068^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 199 times in English Wikipedia and cited 913 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2448 in June 2026
• Global: #7138 in March 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11547 in March 2026
• Global: #17837 in March 2026

There are 11 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, 2026 (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) Tanker war		77.4206
2	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		49.5741
3	Urdu (ur) ٹینکر جنگیں		40.4448
4	Portuguese (pt) Guerra dos petroleiros		37.6393
5	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		35.6741
6	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		34.7962
7	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		28.961
8	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		13.7502
9	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		12.5525
10	Arabic (ar) حرب الناقلات		11.9463

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tanker war" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		445 931
2	English (en) Tanker war		440 495
3	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		128 085
4	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		35 421
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الناقلات		15 736
6	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		15 183
7	French (fr) Guerre des pétroliers		1 930
8	Urdu (ur) ٹینکر جنگیں		987
9	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		896
10	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		698

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tanker war" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tanker war		5 280
2	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		2 161
3	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		409
4	French (fr) Guerre des pétroliers		125
5	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		103
6	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		57
7	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		38
8	Portuguese (pt) Guerra dos petroleiros		32
9	Urdu (ur) ٹینکر جنگیں		26
10	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		18

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

Language versions of the article "Tanker war" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tanker war		89
2	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		68
3	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		27
4	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		21
5	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		17
6	Arabic (ar) حرب الناقلات		10
7	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		4
8	French (fr) Guerre des pétroliers		3
9	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		3
10	Portuguese (pt) Guerra dos petroleiros		2

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

Language versions of the article "Tanker war" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tanker war		15
2	Arabic (ar) حرب الناقلات		0
3	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		0
4	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		0
5	French (fr) Guerre des pétroliers		0
6	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		0
7	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		0
8	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Guerra dos petroleiros		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		0

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

Language versions of the article "Tanker war" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها		557
2	English (en) Tanker war		199
3	Japanese (ja) タンカー戦争		74
4	French (fr) Guerre des pétroliers		35
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الناقلات		16
6	Finnish (fi) Tankkerisota		9
7	Polish (pl) Wojna tankowców		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Танкерна війна		7
9	Hebrew (he) מלחמת המכליות		6
10	Urdu (ur) ٹینکر جنگیں		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرب الناقلات
en	English Tanker war
fa	Persian جنگ نفت‌کش‌ها
fi	Finnish Tankkerisota
fr	French Guerre des pétroliers
he	Hebrew מלחמת המכליות
ja	Japanese タンカー戦争
pl	Polish Wojna tankowców
pt	Portuguese Guerra dos petroleiros
uk	Ukrainian Танкерна війна
ur	Urdu ٹینکر جنگیں

Best Rank

English: #11547 03.2026

Global: #17837 03.2026

Best Rank

English: #2448 06.2026

Global: #7138 03.2026

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