False dilemma

Quality:

False dilemma - informal fallacy involving falsely limited alternatives, when in fact there is at least one additional option. Article “False dilemma” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 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 “False dilemma”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 60 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2102 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #486 in May 2012
• Global: #680 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10838 in September 2021
• Global: #6010 in May 2014

There are 33 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) False dilemma		53.0078
2	Basque (eu) Dilema faltsu		33.4612
3	Thai (th) ทวิบถเท็จ		33.3847
4	Finnish (fi) Väärä dilemma		27.1217
5	Chinese (zh) 假兩難推理		26.1037
6	German (de) Falsches Dilemma		25.3516
7	Estonian (et) Väärdilemma		24.0298
8	Lithuanian (lt) Netikrasis pasirinkimas		23.789
9	Dutch (nl) Vals dilemma		23.6152
10	Catalan (ca) Fals dilema		21.5532

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False dilemma		4 241 875
2	Spanish (es) Falso dilema		529 716
3	Chinese (zh) 假兩難推理		253 190
4	Russian (ru) Ложная дилемма		228 806
5	Japanese (ja) 誤った二分法		187 595
6	German (de) Falsches Dilemma		165 922
7	Portuguese (pt) Falsa dicotomia		159 057
8	French (fr) Faux dilemme		153 388
9	Dutch (nl) Vals dilemma		109 539
10	Finnish (fi) Väärä dilemma		47 865

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) False dilemma		9 743
2	Japanese (ja) 誤った二分法		2 203
3	Russian (ru) Ложная дилемма		917
4	Spanish (es) Falso dilema		881
5	Chinese (zh) 假兩難推理		879
6	French (fr) Faux dilemme		775
7	German (de) Falsches Dilemma		584
8	Simple English (simple) False dilemma		231
9	Portuguese (pt) Falsa dicotomia		230
10	Italian (it) Falsa dicotomia		216

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False dilemma		356
2	French (fr) Faux dilemme		53
3	German (de) Falsches Dilemma		50
4	Dutch (nl) Vals dilemma		43
5	Chinese (zh) 假兩難推理		43
6	Spanish (es) Falso dilema		38
7	Finnish (fi) Väärä dilemma		34
8	Hebrew (he) ברירה כוזבת		29
9	Russian (ru) Ложная дилемма		20
10	Ukrainian (uk) Фальшива дилема		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	Arabic (ar) مأزق مفتعل		1
2	English (en) False dilemma		1
3	Indonesian (id) Dilema palsu		1
4	Italian (it) Falsa dicotomia		1
5	Japanese (ja) 誤った二分法		1
6	Belarusian (be) Ілжывая дылема		0
7	Catalan (ca) Fals dilema		0
8	Czech (cs) Falešné dilema		0
9	German (de) Falsches Dilemma		0
10	Greek (el) Ψευδές δίλημμα		0

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

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