Slippery slope

Quality:

Slippery slope - logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect. Article “Slippery slope” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Slippery slope”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 713 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1263 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #981 in June 2020
• Global: #2402 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7139 in April 2022
• Global: #49536 in June 2015

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, 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) Slippery slope		48.4818
2	Ukrainian (uk) Аргумент слизького схилу		47.8576
3	Czech (cs) Argument šikmou plochou		33.2139
4	Lithuanian (lt) Slidi nuokalnė		31.253
5	German (de) Dammbruchargument		31.1272
6	Polish (pl) Argument równi pochyłej		30.7549
7	Arabic (ar) منحدر زلق		27.9272
8	Japanese (ja) 滑り坂論法		27.4158
9	Thai (th) เหตุผลวิบัติไฟไหม้ฟาง		22.811
10	Finnish (fi) Kaltevan pinnan argumentti		22.7148

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slippery slope		3 444 196
2	Chinese (zh) 滑坡謬誤		703 573
3	German (de) Dammbruchargument		274 511
4	Spanish (es) Pendiente resbaladiza		211 963
5	Dutch (nl) Hellend vlak (retoriek)		148 845
6	French (fr) Pente savonneuse		129 664
7	Finnish (fi) Kaltevan pinnan argumentti		102 040
8	Italian (it) Fallacia della brutta china		66 225
9	Hebrew (he) מדרון חלקלק		64 572
10	Polish (pl) Argument równi pochyłej		53 751

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) Slippery slope		5 525
2	Chinese (zh) 滑坡謬誤		1 730
3	German (de) Dammbruchargument		990
4	Italian (it) Fallacia della brutta china		439
5	French (fr) Pente savonneuse		423
6	Japanese (ja) 滑り坂論法		386
7	Spanish (es) Pendiente resbaladiza		335
8	Korean (ko) 미끄러운 비탈길 논증		279
9	Finnish (fi) Kaltevan pinnan argumentti		222
10	Dutch (nl) Hellend vlak (retoriek)		207

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Slippery slope		244
2	Hebrew (he) מדרון חלקלק		65
3	German (de) Dammbruchargument		58
4	Chinese (zh) 滑坡謬誤		54
5	French (fr) Pente savonneuse		52
6	Dutch (nl) Hellend vlak (retoriek)		30
7	Spanish (es) Pendiente resbaladiza		29
8	Italian (it) Fallacia della brutta china		29
9	Hungarian (hu) Csúszós lejtő		27
10	Finnish (fi) Kaltevan pinnan argumentti		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	Arabic (ar) منحدر زلق		1
2	Azerbaijani (az) Yamac prosesləri		1
3	Catalan (ca) Teoria del pendent relliscós		1
4	English (en) Slippery slope		1
5	Italian (it) Fallacia della brutta china		1
6	Japanese (ja) 滑り坂論法		1
7	Czech (cs) Argument šikmou plochou		0
8	German (de) Dammbruchargument		0
9	Spanish (es) Pendiente resbaladiza		0
10	Persian (fa) شیب لغزنده		0

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

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