L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential - 1990 novel by James Ellroy. This book is the 1666^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 598^th most popular book in Malay Wikipedia. Article “L.A. Confidential” in Malay Wikipedia has 6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “L.A. Confidential”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 317 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

L.A. Confidential is on the 598^th place in local ranking of books in Malay Wikipedia and on the 1666^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 748 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #4242 in July 2022
• Global: #3094 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #35635 in May 2020
• Global: #31770 in May 2012

There are 13 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	English (en) L.A. Confidential		31.0997
2	Spanish (es) L.A. Confidential (novela)		21.4613
3	Chinese (zh) 鐵面特警隊 (小說)		20.3736
4	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		15.3196
5	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		13.5999
6	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		13.2593
7	Norwegian (no) L.A. Confidential		13.0002
8	Swedish (sv) L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)		6.6594
9	Indonesian (id) L.A. Confidential		6.4619
10	Malay (ms) L.A. Confidential		6.0339

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

The most popular language versions of the article "L.A. Confidential" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) L.A. Confidential		1 626 801
2	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		1 230 775
3	French (fr) L.A. Confidential (roman)		151 541
4	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		112 954
5	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		70 881
6	Swedish (sv) L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)		8 480
7	Dutch (nl) Strikt Vertrouwelijk		7 689
8	Norwegian (no) L.A. Confidential		5 748
9	Portuguese (pt) L.A. Confidential (livro)		5 437
10	Chinese (zh) 鐵面特警隊 (小說)		4 968

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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 "L.A. Confidential" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		7 127
2	English (en) L.A. Confidential		5 593
3	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		449
4	French (fr) L.A. Confidential (roman)		403
5	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		312
6	Spanish (es) L.A. Confidential (novela)		101
7	Chinese (zh) 鐵面特警隊 (小說)		88
8	Portuguese (pt) L.A. Confidential (livro)		29
9	Indonesian (id) L.A. Confidential		21
10	Swedish (sv) L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)		18

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

Language versions of the article "L.A. Confidential" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) L.A. Confidential		78
2	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		67
3	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		45
4	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		45
5	Norwegian (no) L.A. Confidential		26
6	French (fr) L.A. Confidential (roman)		22
7	Swedish (sv) L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)		9
8	Dutch (nl) Strikt Vertrouwelijk		6
9	Chinese (zh) 鐵面特警隊 (小說)		6
10	Indonesian (id) L.A. Confidential		5

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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 "L.A. Confidential" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		0
2	English (en) L.A. Confidential		0
3	Spanish (es) L.A. Confidential (novela)		0
4	French (fr) L.A. Confidential (roman)		0
5	Indonesian (id) L.A. Confidential		0
6	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		0
7	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		0
8	Malay (ms) L.A. Confidential		0
9	Dutch (nl) Strikt Vertrouwelijk		0
10	Norwegian (no) L.A. Confidential		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 "L.A. Confidential" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) L.A.コンフィデンシャル		514
2	English (en) L.A. Confidential		93
3	French (fr) L.A. Confidential (roman)		42
4	Italian (it) L.A. Confidential (romanzo)		33
5	Indonesian (id) L.A. Confidential		14
6	Chinese (zh) 鐵面特警隊 (小說)		12
7	German (de) Stadt der Teufel		10
8	Norwegian (no) L.A. Confidential		9
9	Swedish (sv) L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)		8
10	Malay (ms) L.A. Confidential		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Stadt der Teufel
en	English L.A. Confidential
es	Spanish L.A. Confidential (novela)
fr	French L.A. Confidential (roman)
id	Indonesian L.A. Confidential
it	Italian L.A. Confidential (romanzo)
ja	Japanese L.A.コンフィデンシャル
ms	Malay L.A. Confidential
nl	Dutch Strikt Vertrouwelijk
no	Norwegian L.A. Confidential
pt	Portuguese L.A. Confidential (livro)
sv	Swedish L.A. konfidentiellt (roman)
zh	Chinese 鐵面特警隊 (小說)

Best Rank

Malay: #35635 05.2020

Global: #31770 05.2012

Best Rank

Malay: #4242 07.2022

Global: #3094 12.2002

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