The Shield (professional wrestling)

Quality:

The Shield - professional wrestling stable in WWE. Article “The Shield (professional wrestling)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 56.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “The Shield (professional wrestling)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Shield (professional wrestling)”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1186 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2685 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3559 in October 2025
• Global: #37 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #36739 in October 2025
• Global: #2087 in June 2014

There are 24 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) The Shield (professional wrestling)		94.2935
2	Turkish (tr) The Shield (profesyonel güreş)		93.3649
3	Russian (ru) Щит (группировка рестлеров)		84.7007
4	Spanish (es) The Shield (lucha libre)		84.6012
5	Vietnamese (vi) The Shield (nhóm đô vật chuyên nghiệp)		83.9145
6	French (fr) The Shield (catch)		76.5246
7	Portuguese (pt) The Shield (luta profissional)		74.1574
8	Simple English (simple) The Shield (professional wrestling)		56.5932
9	Dutch (nl) The Shield (professioneel worstelen)		51.7322
10	Thai (th) เดอะชีลด์		49.8961

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shield (professional wrestling)		6 432 066
2	Spanish (es) The Shield (lucha libre)		625 277
3	French (fr) The Shield (catch)		524 501
4	Italian (it) Shield (wrestling)		306 839
5	Russian (ru) Щит (группировка рестлеров)		203 145
6	Persian (fa) شیلد (کشتی حرفه‌ای)		175 497
7	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド (プロレス)		159 090
8	Arabic (ar) فريق الدرع (مصارعة حرة)		158 022
9	Portuguese (pt) The Shield (luta profissional)		119 311
10	Vietnamese (vi) The Shield (nhóm đô vật chuyên nghiệp)		103 733

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) The Shield (professional wrestling)		6 629
2	Persian (fa) شیلد (کشتی حرفه‌ای)		436
3	Italian (it) Shield (wrestling)		398
4	Spanish (es) The Shield (lucha libre)		308
5	French (fr) The Shield (catch)		303
6	Russian (ru) Щит (группировка рестлеров)		222
7	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド (プロレス)		208
8	Chinese (zh) 神盾軍		116
9	Portuguese (pt) The Shield (luta profissional)		106
10	Vietnamese (vi) The Shield (nhóm đô vật chuyên nghiệp)		73

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Shield (professional wrestling)		615
2	French (fr) The Shield (catch)		96
3	Spanish (es) The Shield (lucha libre)		88
4	Italian (it) Shield (wrestling)		77
5	Russian (ru) Щит (группировка рестлеров)		50
6	Arabic (ar) فريق الدرع (مصارعة حرة)		36
7	Persian (fa) شیلد (کشتی حرفه‌ای)		35
8	Portuguese (pt) The Shield (luta profissional)		33
9	Turkish (tr) The Shield (profesyonel güreş)		22
10	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド (プロレス)		18

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	Spanish (es) The Shield (lucha libre)		2
2	Arabic (ar) فريق الدرع (مصارعة حرة)		1
3	Russian (ru) Щит (группировка рестлеров)		1
4	Simple English (simple) The Shield (professional wrestling)		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Щитът (кеч)		0
6	Czech (cs) The Shield (wrestling)		0
7	English (en) The Shield (professional wrestling)		0
8	Persian (fa) شیلد (کشتی حرفه‌ای)		0
9	French (fr) The Shield (catch)		0
10	Hebrew (he) המגן (היאבקות מקצועית)		0

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

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