Cigarette Smoking Man

Quality:

The Smoking Man - character in X-Files. Article “Cigarette Smoking Man” in Dutch Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Cigarette Smoking Man”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 766 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 1108 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #2492 in January 2019
• Global: #7189 in January 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #42428 in December 2017
• Global: #5694 in January 2016

There are 15 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) Cigarette Smoking Man		49.9616
2	Russian (ru) Курильщик (Секретные материалы)		39.4985
3	Hungarian (hu) Cigarettázó Férfi		38.9173
4	Serbian (sr) Пушач (Досије икс)		31.3662
5	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Fumante		29.9604
6	Dutch (nl) Cigarette Smoking Man		24.8965
7	Finnish (fi) Tupakkamies		22.7771
8	Spanish (es) El fumador (personaje)		15.4839
9	Italian (it) Uomo che fuma		12.0585
10	Simple English (simple) Cigarette Smoking Man		11.7786

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cigarette Smoking Man		4 228 502
2	Russian (ru) Курильщик (Секретные материалы)		695 394
3	French (fr) L'homme à la cigarette		297 734
4	Spanish (es) El fumador (personaje)		253 058
5	Italian (it) Uomo che fuma		186 978
6	Polish (pl) Palacz (postać)		82 092
7	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Fumante		48 174
8	Finnish (fi) Tupakkamies		44 956
9	Hungarian (hu) Cigarettázó Férfi		38 472
10	Chinese (zh) 癌人		38 391

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) Cigarette Smoking Man		13 433
2	Russian (ru) Курильщик (Секретные материалы)		2 890
3	French (fr) L'homme à la cigarette		1 019
4	Spanish (es) El fumador (personaje)		721
5	Italian (it) Uomo che fuma		553
6	Chinese (zh) 癌人		351
7	Polish (pl) Palacz (postać)		301
8	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Fumante		160
9	Simple English (simple) Cigarette Smoking Man		141
10	Finnish (fi) Tupakkamies		88

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cigarette Smoking Man		320
2	Russian (ru) Курильщик (Секретные материалы)		102
3	French (fr) L'homme à la cigarette		92
4	Italian (it) Uomo che fuma		66
5	Spanish (es) El fumador (personaje)		55
6	Hungarian (hu) Cigarettázó Férfi		31
7	Finnish (fi) Tupakkamies		27
8	Chinese (zh) 癌人		19
9	Polish (pl) Palacz (postać)		16
10	Dutch (nl) Cigarette Smoking Man		11

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	English (en) Cigarette Smoking Man		4
2	Italian (it) Uomo che fuma		1
3	Chinese (zh) 癌人		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Пушача		0
5	Spanish (es) El fumador (personaje)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Tupakkamies		0
7	French (fr) L'homme à la cigarette		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Cigarettázó Férfi		0
9	Dutch (nl) Cigarette Smoking Man		0
10	Polish (pl) Palacz (postać)		0

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

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