The Shield

Quality:

The Shield - American drama television series. This television series is the 535^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 325^th most popular television series in Italian Wikipedia. Article “The Shield” in Italian Wikipedia has 16.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.88 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7313^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

The 325^th most popular in television series in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 535^th most popular in television series.

Since the creation of article “The Shield”, its content was written by 124 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1376 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Shield is on the 325^th place in local ranking of television series in Italian Wikipedia and on the 535^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 251 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3790 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #722 in March 2007
• Global: #1905 in March 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #370 in August 2009
• Global: #2596 in November 2008

There are 28 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) The Shield		73.7455
2	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		49.5117
3	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		39.5923
4	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		32.3473
5	Chinese (zh) 盾牌 (电视剧)		31.3767
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Shield		26.3795
7	Ukrainian (uk) Щит (телесеріал)		26.2431
8	Norwegian (no) The Shield		25.3899
9	Catalan (ca) Vic Mackey		25.0757
10	Serbian (sr) Прљава значка		21.0665

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shield		11 547 261
2	Italian (it) The Shield		1 670 621
3	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		1 218 324
4	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		1 143 163
5	Spanish (es) The Shield		942 435
6	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		739 023
7	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		232 151
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド ルール無用の警察バッジ		154 859
9	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		103 369
10	Swedish (sv) The Shield		65 570

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 Shield		34 993
2	Italian (it) The Shield		2 587
3	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		2 398
4	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		2 398
5	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		1 545
6	Spanish (es) The Shield		1 089
7	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		428
8	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		283
9	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド ルール無用の警察バッジ		278
10	Chinese (zh) 盾牌 (电视剧)		276

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Shield		592
2	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		139
3	Italian (it) The Shield		124
4	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		121
5	Spanish (es) The Shield		54
6	Hebrew (he) המגן (סדרת טלוויזיה)		43
7	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		34
8	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		34
9	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		31
10	Dutch (nl) The Shield (televisieserie)		26

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	Arabic (ar) الدرع (مسلسل)		1
2	English (en) The Shield		1
3	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		1
4	Romanian (ro) The Shield (serial)		1
5	Simple English (simple) The Shield		1
6	Catalan (ca) Vic Mackey		0
7	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		0
8	Spanish (es) The Shield		0
9	Basque (eu) The Shield		0
10	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		0

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

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