When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Quality:

When Bad Things Happen to Good People - book by Harold Kushner. This book is the 9058th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” in English Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 9058th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 51 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People is on the 9058th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in English Wikipedia and cited 13 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #65709 in February 2015
  • Global: #216354 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #146035 in June 2009
  • Global: #233860 in June 2009

There are 2 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
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
27.9466
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
0.1802
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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 "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
540 210
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
13 082
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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 "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
1 927
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
19
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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 "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
43
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
8
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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 "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
0
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
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 "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
10
2Portuguese (pt)
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas
3
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
ptPortuguese
Quando Coisas Ruins Acontecem às Pessoas Boas

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#146035
06.2009
Global:
#233860
06.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#65709
02.2015
Global:
#216354
02.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on When Bad Things Happen to Good People from Wikipedia articles about Harold Kushner, Progeria, Theistic finitism, Schadenfreude and Theodicy. Whereas reading the article about When Bad Things Happen to Good People people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Harold Kushner, Theistic finitism, Theodicy, Michael Martin and Problem of evil.

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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