Killing of Brian Thompson

Quality:

Killing of Brian Thompson - 2024 killing of United Healthcare's CEO in New York City, US. Article “Killing of Brian Thompson” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.8 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8647^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Killing of Brian Thompson”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 963 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 232 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #103 in December 2024
• Global: #4 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1449 in December 2024
• Global: #10 in December 2024

There are 22 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) Killing of Brian Thompson		96.3269
2	Chinese (zh) 布萊恩·湯普森遇刺案		95.0341
3	Turkish (tr) Brian Thompson'ın ölümü		89.7519
4	Italian (it) Omicidio di Brian Thompson		84.5767
5	Russian (ru) Убийство Брайана Томпсона		81.7787
6	Czech (cs) Vražda Briana Thompsona		79.3677
7	Hebrew (he) ההתנקשות בבריאן תומפסון		78.1926
8	French (fr) Assassinat de Brian Thompson		73.2106
9	Hungarian (hu) Brian Thompson meggyilkolása		72.6959
10	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Brian Thompson		69.3332

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Killing of Brian Thompson		5 487 304
2	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Brian Thompson		57 627
3	Russian (ru) Убийство Брайана Томпсона		55 316
4	French (fr) Assassinat de Brian Thompson		45 098
5	Chinese (zh) 布萊恩·湯普森遇刺案		22 958
6	Japanese (ja) ユナイテッドヘルスケアCEO射殺事件		16 411
7	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Brian Thompson		8 554
8	Italian (it) Omicidio di Brian Thompson		8 347
9	Simple English (simple) Killing of Brian Thompson		4 619
10	Hebrew (he) ההתנקשות בבריאן תומפסון		4 088

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) Killing of Brian Thompson		94 368
2	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Brian Thompson		2 213
3	French (fr) Assassinat de Brian Thompson		1 903
4	Russian (ru) Убийство Брайана Томпсона		1 713
5	Italian (it) Omicidio di Brian Thompson		1 340
6	Japanese (ja) ユナイテッドヘルスケアCEO射殺事件		1 000
7	Chinese (zh) 布萊恩·湯普森遇刺案		988
8	Simple English (simple) Killing of Brian Thompson		618
9	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Brian Thompson		361
10	Turkish (tr) Brian Thompson'ın ölümü		260

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Killing of Brian Thompson		770
2	French (fr) Assassinat de Brian Thompson		43
3	Hebrew (he) ההתנקשות בבריאן תומפסון		33
4	Russian (ru) Убийство Брайана Томпсона		20
5	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Brian Thompson		14
6	Italian (it) Omicidio di Brian Thompson		12
7	Chinese (zh) 布萊恩·湯普森遇刺案		12
8	Portuguese (pt) Assassinato de Brian Thompson		10
9	Simple English (simple) Killing of Brian Thompson		8
10	Hungarian (hu) Brian Thompson meggyilkolása		6

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) Killing of Brian Thompson		15
2	Italian (it) Omicidio di Brian Thompson		4
3	French (fr) Assassinat de Brian Thompson		1
4	Hebrew (he) ההתנקשות בבריאן תומפסון		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Brian Thompson meggyilkolása		1
6	Chinese (zh) 布萊恩·湯普森遇刺案		1
7	Arabic (ar) اغتيال برايان ثومسون		0
8	Czech (cs) Vražda Briana Thompsona		0
9	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Brian Thompson		0
10	Basque (eu) Brian Thompsonen hilketa		0

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

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