The Iron Sheik

Quality:

The Iron Sheik - Iranian-American professional wrestler and actor (1942–2023). Article “The Iron Sheik” in English Wikipedia has 94.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 107 references and 25 sections.

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 “The Iron Sheik” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Iron Sheik”, its content was written by 743 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1238 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 587 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3738 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26 in June 2023
• Global: #62 in June 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #196 in June 2023
• Global: #463 in June 2023

There are 25 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	English (en) The Iron Sheik		94.806
2	Italian (it) The Iron Sheik		54.069
3	Finnish (fi) Iron Sheik		52.7095
4	Russian (ru) Железный Шейх		45.8585
5	Spanish (es) The Iron Sheik		45.549
6	Polish (pl) The Iron Sheik		40.9679
7	Chinese (zh) 鋼鐵酋長		38.0484
8	Japanese (ja) コシロ・バジリ		31.7202
9	Persian (fa) شیخ آهنین		30.8224
10	Indonesian (id) The Iron Sheik		30.4912

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Iron Sheik		8 244 753
2	Persian (fa) شیخ آهنین		236 795
3	German (de) The Iron Sheik		223 693
4	Italian (it) The Iron Sheik		179 062
5	Spanish (es) The Iron Sheik		164 002
6	French (fr) Iron Sheik		149 719
7	Russian (ru) Железный Шейх		135 909
8	Japanese (ja) コシロ・バジリ		135 561
9	Arabic (ar) ذا آيرون شيك		73 090
10	Polish (pl) The Iron Sheik		50 714

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) The Iron Sheik		38 625
2	Persian (fa) شیخ آهنین		1 080
3	Spanish (es) The Iron Sheik		916
4	Arabic (ar) ذا آيرون شيك		795
5	German (de) The Iron Sheik		795
6	Italian (it) The Iron Sheik		693
7	Russian (ru) Железный Шейх		532
8	French (fr) Iron Sheik		513
9	Japanese (ja) コシロ・バジリ		451
10	Simple English (simple) The Iron Sheik		340

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Iron Sheik		743
2	German (de) The Iron Sheik		69
3	Persian (fa) شیخ آهنین		67
4	Italian (it) The Iron Sheik		66
5	French (fr) Iron Sheik		51
6	Spanish (es) The Iron Sheik		33
7	Japanese (ja) コシロ・バジリ		31
8	Finnish (fi) Iron Sheik		22
9	Arabic (ar) ذا آيرون شيك		20
10	Russian (ru) Железный Шейх		19

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) The Iron Sheik		7
2	German (de) The Iron Sheik		1
3	Spanish (es) The Iron Sheik		1
4	Russian (ru) Железный Шейх		1
5	Turkish (tr) The Iron Sheik		1
6	Arabic (ar) ذا آيرون شيك		0
7	Czech (cs) The Iron Sheik		0
8	Danish (da) The Iron Sheik		0
9	Greek (el) Άιρον Σέικ		0
10	Persian (fa) شیخ آهنین		0

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

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