Gulf War oil spill

Quality:

Gulf War oil spill - large oil spill resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. Article “Gulf War oil spill” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 1 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 “Gulf War oil spill”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 335 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #648 in April 2016
• Global: #9302 in May 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #20220 in November 2017
• Global: #6707 in May 2010

There are 10 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) Gulf War oil spill		54.148
2	Greek (el) Πετρελαιοκηλίδα στον Πόλεμο του Κόλπου		48.3493
3	Persian (fa) آلودگی نفتی جنگ خلیج فارس		38.8371
4	Italian (it) Disastro petrolifero della guerra del Golfo		35.7023
5	German (de) Ölpest am Persischen Golf 1991		30.727
6	Portuguese (pt) Derramamento de petróleo durante a Guerra do Golfo		26.9149
7	Simple English (simple) Gulf War oil spill		24.2348
8	Arabic (ar) تسرب النفط في حرب الخليج الثانية		20.4124
9	Japanese (ja) 湾岸戦争における石油流出		17.8233
10	Norwegian (no) Oljesølet under Gulfkrigen		0.8864

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gulf War oil spill		952 398
2	German (de) Ölpest am Persischen Golf 1991		112 106
3	Japanese (ja) 湾岸戦争における石油流出		17 321
4	Arabic (ar) تسرب النفط في حرب الخليج الثانية		11 853
5	Norwegian (no) Oljesølet under Gulfkrigen		5 338
6	Italian (it) Disastro petrolifero della guerra del Golfo		4 942
7	Persian (fa) آلودگی نفتی جنگ خلیج فارس		3 941
8	Portuguese (pt) Derramamento de petróleo durante a Guerra do Golfo		3 294
9	Greek (el) Πετρελαιοκηλίδα στον Πόλεμο του Κόλπου		1 603
10	Simple English (simple) Gulf War oil spill		1 528

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) Gulf War oil spill		2 850
2	German (de) Ölpest am Persischen Golf 1991		527
3	Japanese (ja) 湾岸戦争における石油流出		347
4	Italian (it) Disastro petrolifero della guerra del Golfo		248
5	Persian (fa) آلودگی نفتی جنگ خلیج فارس		158
6	Greek (el) Πετρελαιοκηλίδα στον Πόλεμο του Κόλπου		109
7	Arabic (ar) تسرب النفط في حرب الخليج الثانية		81
8	Portuguese (pt) Derramamento de petróleo durante a Guerra do Golfo		56
9	Simple English (simple) Gulf War oil spill		7
10	Norwegian (no) Oljesølet under Gulfkrigen		6

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gulf War oil spill		162
2	German (de) Ölpest am Persischen Golf 1991		29
3	Norwegian (no) Oljesølet under Gulfkrigen		8
4	Italian (it) Disastro petrolifero della guerra del Golfo		7
5	Simple English (simple) Gulf War oil spill		6
6	Japanese (ja) 湾岸戦争における石油流出		4
7	Arabic (ar) تسرب النفط في حرب الخليج الثانية		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Derramamento de petróleo durante a Guerra do Golfo		3
9	Greek (el) Πετρελαιοκηλίδα στον Πόλεμο του Κόλπου		2
10	Persian (fa) آلودگی نفتی جنگ خلیج فارس		2

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) Gulf War oil spill		2
2	Arabic (ar) تسرب النفط في حرب الخليج الثانية		0
3	German (de) Ölpest am Persischen Golf 1991		0
4	Greek (el) Πετρελαιοκηλίδα στον Πόλεμο του Κόλπου		0
5	Persian (fa) آلودگی نفتی جنگ خلیج فارس		0
6	Italian (it) Disastro petrolifero della guerra del Golfo		0
7	Japanese (ja) 湾岸戦争における石油流出		0
8	Norwegian (no) Oljesølet under Gulfkrigen		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Derramamento de petróleo durante a Guerra do Golfo		0
10	Simple English (simple) Gulf War oil spill		0

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

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