Begging the question

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 "Begging the question" in Simple English Wikipedia has 21 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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 "Begging the question", its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1632 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1139 in November 2020
• Global: #1055 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4915 in December 2008
• Global: #28586 in April 2008

There are 25 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 August 1, 2024 (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		48.6256
2	English (en) Begging the question		42.7817
3	Arabic (ar) مصادرة على مطلوب		33.9033
4	German (de) Petitio Principii		28.3085
5	Korean (ko) 선결문제 요구의 오류		26.6287
6	Croatian (hr) Petitio principii		23.9043
7	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		23.3561
8	Simple English (simple) Begging the question		20.9875
9	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		16.8423
10	Indonesian (id) Meminta pertanyaan		13.5496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Begging the question		5 535 433
2	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		550 654
3	German (de) Petitio Principii		276 731
4	French (fr) Pétition de principe		178 869
5	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		142 605
6	Chinese (zh) 乞題		126 930
7	Polish (pl) Petitio principii		121 206
8	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		115 742
9	Italian (it) Petitio principii		111 796
10	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		93 339

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		18 064
2	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		1 751
3	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		1 041
4	German (de) Petitio Principii		1 024
5	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		994
6	Arabic (ar) مصادرة على مطلوب		732
7	French (fr) Pétition de principe		646
8	Italian (it) Petitio principii		624
9	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		624
10	Chinese (zh) 乞題		597

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		559
2	French (fr) Pétition de principe		66
3	German (de) Petitio Principii		57
4	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		50
5	Italian (it) Petitio principii		37
6	Hebrew (he) הנחה טעונת הוכחה		36
7	Hungarian (hu) Petitio principii		25
8	Portuguese (pt) Petitio principii		25
9	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		20
10	Japanese (ja) 論点先取		20

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	Turkish (tr) Petitio principii		1
2	Arabic (ar) مصادرة على مطلوب		0
3	Czech (cs) Důkaz kruhem		0
4	Danish (da) Petitio principii		0
5	German (de) Petitio Principii		0
6	English (en) Begging the question		0
7	Spanish (es) Petición de principio		0
8	Persian (fa) مصادره به مطلوب		0
9	French (fr) Pétition de principe		0
10	Hebrew (he) הנחה טעונת הוכחה		0

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

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