List of urban legends

Quality:

List of urban legends - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of urban legends” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.13 points.

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 “List of urban legends”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 384 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2558 in November 2025
• Global: #6908 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #15116 in April 2009
• Global: #2201 in August 2008

There are 5 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, 2026 (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) List of urban legends		71.973
2	Chinese (zh) 都市传说列表		68.2464
3	French (fr) Liste de légendes urbaines		61.0023
4	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説一覧		59.6314
5	Simple English (simple) List of urban legends		2.478

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説一覧		8 177 744
2	English (en) List of urban legends		3 835 261
3	French (fr) Liste de légendes urbaines		1 199 266
4	Chinese (zh) 都市传说列表		1 167 260
5	Simple English (simple) List of urban legends		643

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) List of urban legends		23 327
2	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説一覧		18 139
3	Chinese (zh) 都市传说列表		2 315
4	French (fr) Liste de légendes urbaines		1 271
5	Simple English (simple) List of urban legends		32

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説一覧		397
2	French (fr) Liste de légendes urbaines		364
3	English (en) List of urban legends		354
4	Chinese (zh) 都市传说列表		159
5	Simple English (simple) List of urban legends		4

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) List of urban legends		1
2	French (fr) Liste de légendes urbaines		1
3	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説一覧		1
4	Simple English (simple) List of urban legends		0
5	Chinese (zh) 都市传说列表		0

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

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