Argument circular

Quality:

Begging the question - type of fallacy, where a proposition is assumed as a premise, which itself needs a proof and directly entails the conclusion. Article “Argument circular” in Romanian Wikipedia has 10 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.53 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Argument circular”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia and edited by 1073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 1723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #260 in June 2007
• Global: #1053 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #9594 in June 2013
• Global: #28674 in April 2008

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	Chinese (zh) 乞題		48.2762
2	English (en) Begging the question		45.0214
3	Arabic (ar) مصادرة على مطلوب		33.7213
4	Basque (eu) Petitio principii		28.3561
5	Korean (ko) 선결문제 요구의 오류		26.6568
6	German (de) Petitio Principii		24.5608
7	Croatian (hr) Petitio principii		23.8686
8	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		22.2649
9	Simple English (simple) Begging the question		18.6589
10	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		17.81

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Begging the question		5 870 777
2	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		577 424
3	German (de) Petitio Principii		297 807
4	French (fr) Pétition de principe		194 789
5	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		151 416
6	Chinese (zh) 乞題		140 803
7	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		130 750
8	Polish (pl) Petitio principii		129 930
9	Italian (it) Petitio principii		123 808
10	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		104 567

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) Begging the question		12 084
2	German (de) Petitio Principii		748
3	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		623
4	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		586
5	French (fr) Pétition de principe		549
6	Chinese (zh) 乞題		444
7	Italian (it) Petitio principii		378
8	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		349
9	Polish (pl) Petitio principii		340
10	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		234

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Begging the question		573
2	French (fr) Pétition de principe		70
3	German (de) Petitio Principii		60
4	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		57
5	Italian (it) Petitio principii		40
6	Hebrew (he) הנחה טעונת הוכחה		38
7	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		27
8	Hungarian (hu) Petitio principii		25
9	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		24
10	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		24

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) Begging the question		1
2	Basque (eu) Petitio principii		1
3	Korean (ko) 선결문제 요구의 오류		1
4	Arabic (ar) مصادرة على مطلوب		0
5	Czech (cs) Důkaz kruhem		0
6	Danish (da) Petitio principii		0
7	German (de) Petitio Principii		0
8	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		0
9	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		0
10	French (fr) Pétition de principe		0

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

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