L (Death Note)

Quality:

L - fictional character from Death Note. Article “L (Death Note)” in French Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.4 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “L (Death Note)” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “L (Death Note)”, its content was written by 117 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1437 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in French Wikipedia and cited 568 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #647 in May 2008
• Global: #2184 in September 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #5405 in August 2017
• Global: #2343 in July 2015

There are 23 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	Hungarian (hu) L (Death Note)		64.6245
2	English (en) L (Death Note)		54.8911
3	Portuguese (pt) L (Death Note)		52.0817
4	Spanish (es) L (Death Note)		48.457
5	Indonesian (id) L (Death Note)		47.5087
6	Chinese (zh) L (角色)		42.3016
7	Italian (it) Elle (Death Note)		41.7028
8	Polish (pl) L (Death Note)		34.9652
9	Swedish (sv) L (Death Note)		33.3751
10	French (fr) L (Death Note)		26.6256

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) L (Death Note)		8 978 516
2	Japanese (ja) L (DEATH NOTE)		3 447 445
3	Spanish (es) L (Death Note)		2 800 435
4	Russian (ru) L (Тетрадь смерти)		1 774 293
5	Portuguese (pt) L (Death Note)		1 515 346
6	Italian (it) Elle (Death Note)		897 712
7	French (fr) L (Death Note)		791 747
8	Chinese (zh) L (角色)		589 898
9	Arabic (ar) إل (مذكرة الموت)		149 517
10	Polish (pl) L (Death Note)		95 058

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) L (Death Note)		17 538
2	Japanese (ja) L (DEATH NOTE)		12 259
3	Russian (ru) L (Тетрадь смерти)		6 265
4	Spanish (es) L (Death Note)		4 882
5	Chinese (zh) L (角色)		3 391
6	Italian (it) Elle (Death Note)		2 561
7	French (fr) L (Death Note)		2 191
8	Portuguese (pt) L (Death Note)		2 050
9	Indonesian (id) L (Death Note)		1 512
10	Vietnamese (vi) L (Death Note)		587

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) L (Death Note)		410
2	Spanish (es) L (Death Note)		176
3	Italian (it) Elle (Death Note)		145
4	Japanese (ja) L (DEATH NOTE)		125
5	French (fr) L (Death Note)		117
6	Russian (ru) L (Тетрадь смерти)		112
7	Portuguese (pt) L (Death Note)		102
8	Chinese (zh) L (角色)		43
9	Arabic (ar) إل (مذكرة الموت)		31
10	Hungarian (hu) L (Death Note)		29

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	French (fr) L (Death Note)		3
2	Italian (it) Elle (Death Note)		3
3	Spanish (es) L (Death Note)		2
4	Portuguese (pt) L (Death Note)		2
5	Indonesian (id) L (Death Note)		1
6	Japanese (ja) L (DEATH NOTE)		1
7	Russian (ru) L (Тетрадь смерти)		1
8	Arabic (ar) إل (مذكرة الموت)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) L (Death Note)		0
10	Catalan (ca) L Lawliet		0

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

On 26 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: killing of Alex Pretti, Alex Honnold, Nipah virus, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Donald Trump, Sam Darnold, Sinners, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marty Supreme, deaths in 2026.

In French Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Soudan du Sud, Michel-Ange, Maureen Kearney, XXX, Mort d'Alex Pretti, Arno Klarsfeld, Championnat d'Europe masculin de handball 2026, Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Josso, Raphaëlle Ricci.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information