Pinkerton (detective agency)

Quality:

Pinkerton Government Services - American private security guard and detective agency. This company is the 459^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business. Article “Pinkerton (detective agency)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 459^th most popular in business.

Since the creation of article “Pinkerton (detective agency)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 986 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pinkerton Government Services is on the 459^th place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1226 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8733 in August 2020
• Global: #2666 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #20489 in May 2021
• Global: #1050 in April 2023

There are 26 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) Pinkerton (detective agency)		59.1693
2	Chinese (zh) 平克頓偵探事務所		45.5517
3	Polish (pl) Agencja Pinkertona		40.5608
4	Serbian (sr) Пинкертонова детективска агенција		39.806
5	Spanish (es) Agencia Nacional de Detectives Pinkerton		39.0085
6	Swedish (sv) Pinkerton		33.0651
7	Portuguese (pt) Agência Nacional de Detetives Pinkerton		29.5194
8	Russian (ru) Агентство Пинкертона		27.2621
9	Japanese (ja) ピンカートン探偵社		25.9526
10	Turkish (tr) Pinkerton		25.2851

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pinkerton (detective agency)		11 346 550
2	German (de) Pinkerton (Detektei)		668 131
3	Japanese (ja) ピンカートン探偵社		462 704
4	Spanish (es) Agencia Nacional de Detectives Pinkerton		445 636
5	French (fr) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		325 328
6	Italian (it) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		234 689
7	Polish (pl) Agencja Pinkertona		211 333
8	Portuguese (pt) Agência Nacional de Detetives Pinkerton		154 268
9	Dutch (nl) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		99 584
10	Chinese (zh) 平克頓偵探事務所		83 212

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) Pinkerton (detective agency)		47 027
2	German (de) Pinkerton (Detektei)		2 779
3	Spanish (es) Agencia Nacional de Detectives Pinkerton		2 772
4	French (fr) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		2 126
5	Japanese (ja) ピンカートン探偵社		2 015
6	Russian (ru) Агентство Пинкертона		1 949
7	Italian (it) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		1 016
8	Chinese (zh) 平克頓偵探事務所		969
9	Polish (pl) Agencja Pinkertona		877
10	Portuguese (pt) Agência Nacional de Detetives Pinkerton		632

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pinkerton (detective agency)		480
2	German (de) Pinkerton (Detektei)		70
3	French (fr) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		67
4	Italian (it) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		57
5	Japanese (ja) ピンカートン探偵社		42
6	Polish (pl) Agencja Pinkertona		31
7	Swedish (sv) Pinkerton		31
8	Hebrew (he) פינקרטון		25
9	Dutch (nl) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		23
10	Portuguese (pt) Agência Nacional de Detetives Pinkerton		21

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	Arabic (ar) وكالة بينكرتون للمباحث الوطنية		4
2	Chinese (zh) 平克頓偵探事務所		3
3	English (en) Pinkerton (detective agency)		1
4	French (fr) Pinkerton National Detective Agency		1
5	Korean (ko) 핑커톤		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Национална детективска агенция Пинкертън		0
7	Catalan (ca) Agència Nacional de Detectius Pinkerton		0
8	Czech (cs) Pinkerton (detektivní agentura)		0
9	German (de) Pinkerton (Detektei)		0
10	Greek (el) Πίνκερτον		0

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

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