Appeal to nature

Appeal to nature - argument or rhetorical tactic in which it is proposed that a thing is good because it is “natural”, or bad because it is “unnatural”. Article “Appeal to nature” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Appeal to nature”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 923 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1699 in June 2017
• Global: #47495 in May 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #27898 in May 2025
• Global: #219556 in June 2016

There are 24 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) Appeal to nature		35.9108
2	Esperanto (eo) Pledo al naturo		34.4012
3	Indonesian (id) Argumentum ad naturam		33.8215
4	Ukrainian (uk) Звернення до природи		33.2046
5	Thai (th) การอ้างธรรมชาติ		31.948
6	Turkish (tr) Doğaya başvurma		29.9135
7	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		27.0513
8	Slovenian (sl) Sklicevanje na naravo		26.5474
9	Hindi (hi) प्रकृति से अपील		26.4622
10	Japanese (ja) 自然に訴える論証		26.3885

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Appeal to nature" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Appeal to nature		866 731
2	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad naturam		53 337
3	French (fr) Appel à la nature		44 281
4	Japanese (ja) 自然に訴える論証		36 357
5	Portuguese (pt) Apelo à natureza		25 579
6	Chinese (zh) 訴諸自然		15 689
7	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		14 568
8	Russian (ru) Апелляция к природе		11 403
9	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į natūralumą		6 818
10	Hebrew (he) פנייה אל הטבע		6 513

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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 "Appeal to nature" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Appeal to nature		4 936
2	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad naturam		296
3	French (fr) Appel à la nature		289
4	Simple English (simple) Appeal to nature		248
5	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		232
6	Russian (ru) Апелляция к природе		190
7	Japanese (ja) 自然に訴える論証		163
8	Chinese (zh) 訴諸自然		116
9	German (de) Argumentum ad naturam		106
10	Portuguese (pt) Apelo à natureza		69

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

Language versions of the article "Appeal to nature" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Appeal to nature		125
2	French (fr) Appel à la nature		27
3	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad naturam		18
4	Japanese (ja) 自然に訴える論証		14
5	Hebrew (he) פנייה אל הטבע		11
6	German (de) Argumentum ad naturam		9
7	Portuguese (pt) Apelo à natureza		9
8	Chinese (zh) 訴諸自然		8
9	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		6
10	Lithuanian (lt) Apeliavimas į natūralumą		6

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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 "Appeal to nature" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Appeal to nature		5
2	Arabic (ar) احتكام إلى الطبيعي		0
3	German (de) Argumentum ad naturam		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Pledo al naturo		0
5	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		0
6	Persian (fa) توسل به طبیعت		0
7	French (fr) Appel à la nature		0
8	Hebrew (he) פנייה אל הטבע		0
9	Hindi (hi) प्रकृति से अपील		0
10	Indonesian (id) Argumentum ad naturam		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 "Appeal to nature" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Appeal to nature		231
2	Arabic (ar) احتكام إلى الطبيعي		131
3	Ukrainian (uk) Звернення до природи		130
4	French (fr) Appel à la nature		80
5	Spanish (es) Apelación a la naturaleza		63
6	Persian (fa) توسل به طبیعت		56
7	Japanese (ja) 自然に訴える論証		48
8	Simple English (simple) Appeal to nature		39
9	Thai (th) การอ้างธรรมชาติ		33
10	Polish (pl) Argumentum ad naturam		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic احتكام إلى الطبيعي
de	German Argumentum ad naturam
en	English Appeal to nature
eo	Esperanto Pledo al naturo
es	Spanish Apelación a la naturaleza
fa	Persian توسل به طبیعت
fr	French Appel à la nature
he	Hebrew פנייה אל הטבע
hi	Hindi प्रकृति से अपील
id	Indonesian Argumentum ad naturam
ja	Japanese 自然に訴える論証
lt	Lithuanian Apeliavimas į natūralumą
nl	Dutch Beroep op de natuur
pl	Polish Argumentum ad naturam
pt	Portuguese Apelo à natureza
ru	Russian Апелляция к природе
simple	Simple English Appeal to nature
sl	Slovenian Sklicevanje na naravo
sv	Swedish Vädjan till naturen
th	Thai การอ้างธรรมชาติ
tr	Turkish Doğaya başvurma
uk	Ukrainian Звернення до природи
vi	Vietnamese Vin vào tự nhiên
zh	Chinese 訴諸自然

Best Rank

Simple English: #27898 05.2025

Global: #219556 06.2016

Best Rank

Simple English: #1699 06.2017

Global: #47495 05.2022

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