Ignoratio elenchi

Quality:

Irrelevant conclusion - informal fallacy of presenting an argument that fails to address the issue in question. Article “Ignoratio elenchi” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 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 “Ignoratio elenchi”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 642 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1813 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3982 in February 2016
• Global: #681 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2977 in March 2013
• Global: #75353 in October 2008

There are 29 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	Chinese (zh) 不相干的謬誤		30.6467
2	English (en) Irrelevant conclusion		30.4005
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Avleiingsmanøver		28.6655
4	Thai (th) ข้อสรุปนอกประเด็น		24.4006
5	Croatian (hr) Irelevantna konkluzija		23.291
6	Hebrew (he) איגנורטיו אלנכי		22.8912
7	German (de) Ignoratio elenchi		22.8545
8	Danish (da) Ignoratio elenchi		20.5268
9	Portuguese (pt) Ignoratio elenchi		20.2441
10	Italian (it) Ignoratio elenchi		18.9904

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Irrelevant conclusion		1 481 569
2	Japanese (ja) 論点のすり替え		251 849
3	Spanish (es) Conclusión irrelevante		205 504
4	Italian (it) Ignoratio elenchi		105 050
5	German (de) Ignoratio elenchi		104 460
6	Chinese (zh) 不相干的謬誤		99 647
7	Polish (pl) Ignoratio elenchi		63 476
8	Portuguese (pt) Ignoratio elenchi		55 696
9	Finnish (fi) Ignoratio elenchi		53 900
10	Simple English (simple) Ignoratio elenchi		40 404

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) Irrelevant conclusion		3 129
2	Japanese (ja) 論点のすり替え		798
3	Simple English (simple) Ignoratio elenchi		591
4	Italian (it) Ignoratio elenchi		431
5	Spanish (es) Conclusión irrelevante		383
6	Chinese (zh) 不相干的謬誤		365
7	French (fr) Ignoratio elenchi		176
8	Polish (pl) Ignoratio elenchi		163
9	German (de) Ignoratio elenchi		147
10	Finnish (fi) Ignoratio elenchi		100

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Irrelevant conclusion		220
2	Italian (it) Ignoratio elenchi		53
3	Japanese (ja) 論点のすり替え		40
4	German (de) Ignoratio elenchi		38
5	Ukrainian (uk) Хибний висновок		26
6	Chinese (zh) 不相干的謬誤		26
7	Hungarian (hu) Ignoratio elenchi		25
8	Norwegian (no) Avledningsmanøver		24
9	Hebrew (he) איגנורטיו אלנכי		23
10	Portuguese (pt) Ignoratio elenchi		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	Danish (da) Ignoratio elenchi		1
2	English (en) Irrelevant conclusion		1
3	Estonian (et) Ignoratio elenchi		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Ignoratio elenchi		1
5	Polish (pl) Ignoratio elenchi		1
6	Arabic (ar) تجاهل المطلوب		0
7	German (de) Ignoratio elenchi		0
8	Greek (el) Άγνοια ελέγχου		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Ignoratio elenchi		0
10	Spanish (es) Conclusión irrelevante		0

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

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