Hanlon's razor

Quality:

Hanlon's razor - philosophical adage stating "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.". Article “Hanlon's razor” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hanlon's razor”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 182 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #561 in January 2021
• Global: #493 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #46 in July 2023
• Global: #6854 in May 2024

There are 36 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	French (fr) Rasoir de Hanlon		75.5124
2	Spanish (es) Principio de Hanlon		64.8622
3	English (en) Hanlon's razor		33.6405
4	Italian (it) Rasoio di Hanlon		31.9147
5	Chinese (zh) 汉隆剃刀		31.365
6	Turkish (tr) Hanlon'un usturası		30.0047
7	German (de) Hanlon’s Razor		29.1591
8	Greek (el) Ξυράφι του Χάνλον		27.489
9	Thai (th) มีดโกนของฮานลอน		27.2343
10	Arabic (ar) نصل هانلون		27.1674

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hanlon's razor		7 014 729
2	Russian (ru) Бритва Хэнлона		1 273 178
3	Japanese (ja) ハンロンの剃刀		644 602
4	German (de) Hanlon’s Razor		539 146
5	Spanish (es) Principio de Hanlon		437 598
6	French (fr) Rasoir de Hanlon		354 414
7	Italian (it) Rasoio di Hanlon		286 844
8	Simple English (simple) Hanlon's razor		270 110
9	Portuguese (pt) Navalha de Hanlon		151 663
10	Swedish (sv) Hanlons rakkniv		86 009

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) Hanlon's razor		30 695
2	Simple English (simple) Hanlon's razor		3 766
3	Russian (ru) Бритва Хэнлона		3 649
4	Japanese (ja) ハンロンの剃刀		3 505
5	German (de) Hanlon’s Razor		2 423
6	Spanish (es) Principio de Hanlon		2 407
7	French (fr) Rasoir de Hanlon		2 300
8	Polish (pl) Brzytwa Hanlona		924
9	Czech (cs) Hanlonova břitva		908
10	Italian (it) Rasoio di Hanlon		827

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hanlon's razor		348
2	French (fr) Rasoir de Hanlon		95
3	German (de) Hanlon’s Razor		74
4	Russian (ru) Бритва Хэнлона		68
5	Italian (it) Rasoio di Hanlon		64
6	Dutch (nl) Scheermes van Hanlon		55
7	Spanish (es) Principio de Hanlon		41
8	Hungarian (hu) Hanlon borotvája		33
9	Japanese (ja) ハンロンの剃刀		33
10	Hebrew (he) התער של הנלון		27

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	Japanese (ja) ハンロンの剃刀		2
2	English (en) Hanlon's razor		1
3	Spanish (es) Principio de Hanlon		1
4	Italian (it) Rasoio di Hanlon		1
5	Arabic (ar) نصل هانلون		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Henlon ülgücü		0
7	Belarusian (be) Брытва Хэнлана		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Бръснач на Ханлън		0
9	Catalan (ca) Navalla de Hanlon		0
10	Czech (cs) Hanlonova břitva		0

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

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