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The Thing That Should Not Be

Quality:

The Thing That Should Not Be - song composed by James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich with lyrics by James Hetfield, performed by Metallica. Article “The Thing That Should Not Be” in Italian Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.2 points.

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

Since the creation of article “The Thing That Should Not Be”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 73 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 143 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Italian): #8942 in January 2020
  • Global: #156337 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Italian): #113865 in July 2009
  • Global: #514563 in June 2009

There are 4 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
1French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
7.532
2Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
4.7256
3Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
3.8012
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
0.3746
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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 "The Thing That Should Not Be" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
117 778
2Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
31 925
3French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
12 784
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
6 259
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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 "The Thing That Should Not Be" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
235
2Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
55
3French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
52
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
12
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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 "The Thing That Should Not Be" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
28
2Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
22
3French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
17
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
6
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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 "The Thing That Should Not Be" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
0
2French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
0
3Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
0
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
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 "The Thing That Should Not Be" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Italian (it)
The Thing That Should Not Be
143
2Spanish (es)
The Thing That Should Not Be
17
3French (fr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
8
4Turkish (tr)
The Thing That Should Not Be
3
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
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The Thing That Should Not Be
frFrench
The Thing That Should Not Be
itItalian
The Thing That Should Not Be
trTurkish
The Thing That Should Not Be

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#113865
07.2009
Global:
#514563
06.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#8942
01.2020
Global:
#156337
08.2011

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Thing That Should Not Be from Wikipedia articles about Master of Puppets, Master of Puppets, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Cliff Burton and The Call of Cthulhu. Whereas reading the article about The Thing That Should Not Be people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Welcome Home (Sanitarium), The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, H. P. Lovecraft and All Nightmare Long.

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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About WikiRank

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