Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not kill - part of the Ten Commandments (20:13). Article “Thou shalt not kill” in English Wikipedia has 73.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 89 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.88 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Thou shalt not kill” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Thou shalt not kill”, its content was written by 162 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 254 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 232 times in English Wikipedia and cited 567 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28491 in April 2017
• Global: #83818 in March 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45110 in April 2015
• Global: #90850 in April 2015

There are 10 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	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		80.5341
2	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		79.7723
3	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		73.6751
4	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		34.2125
5	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		32.3465
6	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		31.7342
7	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		25.9806
8	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		17.7618
9	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		16.3094
10	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		14.6926

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Thou shalt not kill" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		1 780 598
2	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		92 568
3	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		64 540
4	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		55 857
5	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		22 447
6	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		8 644
7	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		8 393
8	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		1 052
9	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		421
10	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		92

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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 "Thou shalt not kill" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		6 302
2	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		262
3	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		260
4	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		164
5	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		127
6	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		92
7	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		87
8	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		57
9	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		33
10	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		29

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

Language versions of the article "Thou shalt not kill" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		162
2	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		58
3	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		14
4	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		6
5	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		4
6	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		3
7	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		3
8	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		2
9	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		1
10	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		1

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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 "Thou shalt not kill" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		3
2	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		2
3	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		1
4	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		0
5	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		0
6	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		0
7	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		0
8	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		0
10	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		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 "Thou shalt not kill" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thou shalt not kill		232
2	Hebrew (he) לא תרצח		116
3	Indonesian (id) Jangan membunuh		107
4	Arabic (ar) لا تقتل		34
5	Chinese (zh) 不可杀人		20
6	Portuguese (pt) Não matarás		18
7	Thai (th) ห้ามฆ่าคน		16
8	Urdu (ur) قتل نہ کرنا		16
9	Czech (cs) Nezabiješ!		4
10	Persian (fa) تو نباید بکشی		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لا تقتل
cs	Czech Nezabiješ!
en	English Thou shalt not kill
fa	Persian تو نباید بکشی
he	Hebrew לא תרצח
id	Indonesian Jangan membunuh
pt	Portuguese Não matarás
th	Thai ห้ามฆ่าคน
ur	Urdu قتل نہ کرنا
zh	Chinese 不可杀人

Best Rank

English: #45110 04.2015

Global: #90850 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #28491 04.2017

Global: #83818 03.2006

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