Shel Silverstein

Quality:

Shel Silverstein - American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999). This person is the 9041^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Shel Silverstein” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9041^st most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Shel Silverstein”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1586 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shel Silverstein is on the 9041^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 29 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1288 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1186 in March 2019
• Global: #3648 in April 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #11099 in May 2024
• Global: #4604 in March 2023

There are 26 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) Shel Silverstein		72.0375
2	Armenian (hy) Շել Սիլվերսթին		36.6512
3	Spanish (es) Shel Silverstein		35.3734
4	Russian (ru) Силверстайн, Шел		31.8165
5	Norwegian (no) Shel Silverstein		29.9418
6	Slovenian (sl) Shel Silverstein		29.8016
7	Arabic (ar) شيل سيلفرشتاين		27.241
8	Persian (fa) شل سیلورستاین		24.8454
9	Esperanto (eo) Shel Silverstein		23.4968
10	Swedish (sv) Shel Silverstein		23.0967

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shel Silverstein		10 762 630
2	German (de) Shel Silverstein		178 598
3	Persian (fa) شل سیلورستاین		144 229
4	Japanese (ja) シェル・シルヴァスタイン		104 949
5	Spanish (es) Shel Silverstein		81 755
6	Russian (ru) Силверстайн, Шел		75 267
7	French (fr) Shel Silverstein		62 223
8	Hebrew (he) של סילברסטיין		62 119
9	Portuguese (pt) Shel Silverstein		54 531
10	Chinese (zh) 谢尔·希尔弗斯坦		40 396

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) Shel Silverstein		37 376
2	German (de) Shel Silverstein		755
3	Japanese (ja) シェル・シルヴァスタイン		432
4	Persian (fa) شل سیلورستاین		313
5	Spanish (es) Shel Silverstein		258
6	Russian (ru) Силверстайн, Шел		228
7	Portuguese (pt) Shel Silverstein		190
8	Italian (it) Shel Silverstein		183
9	French (fr) Shel Silverstein		168
10	Chinese (zh) 谢尔·希尔弗斯坦		149

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shel Silverstein		1 131
2	German (de) Shel Silverstein		66
3	Hebrew (he) של סילברסטיין		56
4	French (fr) Shel Silverstein		49
5	Russian (ru) Силверстайн, Шел		40
6	Persian (fa) شل سیلورستاین		35
7	Czech (cs) Shel Silverstein		28
8	Spanish (es) Shel Silverstein		24
9	Italian (it) Shel Silverstein		19
10	Dutch (nl) Shel Silverstein		18

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) شيل سيلفرشتاين		1
2	English (en) Shel Silverstein		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Shel Silverstein		1
4	Hebrew (he) של סילברסטיין		1
5	Czech (cs) Shel Silverstein		0
6	Danish (da) Shel Silverstein		0
7	German (de) Shel Silverstein		0
8	Spanish (es) Shel Silverstein		0
9	Persian (fa) شل سیلورستاین		0
10	Finnish (fi) Shel Silverstein		0

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

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