Tom Waits

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Tom Waits - American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1949). This person is the 1831^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 890^th most popular person in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Tom Waits” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 77.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 14 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 9134^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 890^th most popular in people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6339^th most popular in all topics.

The 7875^th most popular in AI.

The 1831^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 4969^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Tom Waits”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 2846 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7875^th place).

Tom Waits is on the 890^th place in local ranking of people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 1831^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 123 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (6974^th place) and cited 7139 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #154 in November 2021
• Global: #922 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #1304 in May 2018
• Global: #614 in August 2014

There are 41 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) Tom Waits		100
2	Czech (cs) Tom Waits		88.381
3	German (de) Tom Waits		87.0018
4	Spanish (es) Tom Waits		78.1088
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Tom Waits		77.5265
6	Ukrainian (uk) Том Вейтс		71.4409
7	Swedish (sv) Tom Waits		62.3098
8	Russian (ru) Уэйтс, Том		62.1727
9	Lithuanian (lt) Tom Waits		56.5466
10	Armenian (hy) Թոմ Ուեյթս		54.6456

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tom Waits		22 779 905
2	German (de) Tom Waits		2 571 936
3	Russian (ru) Уэйтс, Том		1 724 053
4	Italian (it) Tom Waits		1 566 701
5	Spanish (es) Tom Waits		1 422 367
6	French (fr) Tom Waits		1 379 179
7	Japanese (ja) トム・ウェイツ		1 217 169
8	Polish (pl) Tom Waits		641 733
9	Dutch (nl) Tom Waits		414 450
10	Portuguese (pt) Tom Waits		393 746

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) Tom Waits		71 885
2	German (de) Tom Waits		7 370
3	Russian (ru) Уэйтс, Том		4 386
4	Japanese (ja) トム・ウェイツ		4 026
5	Italian (it) Tom Waits		4 020
6	French (fr) Tom Waits		3 381
7	Spanish (es) Tom Waits		3 114
8	Polish (pl) Tom Waits		907
9	Portuguese (pt) Tom Waits		854
10	Dutch (nl) Tom Waits		778

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tom Waits		1 033
2	German (de) Tom Waits		269
3	French (fr) Tom Waits		205
4	Italian (it) Tom Waits		161
5	Dutch (nl) Tom Waits		104
6	Russian (ru) Уэйтс, Том		99
7	Polish (pl) Tom Waits		80
8	Swedish (sv) Tom Waits		78
9	Norwegian (no) Tom Waits		74
10	Spanish (es) Tom Waits		69

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) Tom Waits		2
2	Spanish (es) Tom Waits		2
3	Hebrew (he) טום וייטס		2
4	German (de) Tom Waits		1
5	French (fr) Tom Waits		1
6	Arabic (ar) توم وايتس		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Том Уейтс		0
8	Catalan (ca) Tom Waits		0
9	Czech (cs) Tom Waits		0
10	Danish (da) Tom Waits		0

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

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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