Walter Payton

Quality:

Walter Payton - American football running back, Pro Football Hall of Famer (1954-1999). This person is the 7840^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Walter Payton” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.2 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7840^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Walter Payton”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1050 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Walter Payton is on the 7840^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2933 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1053 in February 2011
• Global: #7484 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8727 in February 2008
• Global: #2431 in January 2016

There are 15 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) Walter Payton		88.6888
2	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		75.6246
3	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		40.3995
4	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		38.053
5	Armenian (hy) Ուոլթեր Փեյթոն		30.6679
6	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		26.171
7	Italian (it) Walter Payton		22.6709
8	Chinese (zh) 沃尔特·佩顿		21.5544
9	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		15.6274
10	Ukrainian (uk) Волтер Пейтон		12.6683

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Payton		12 556 468
2	German (de) Walter Payton		209 302
3	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		126 341
4	French (fr) Walter Payton		83 967
5	Italian (it) Walter Payton		68 971
6	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		57 395
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		39 917
8	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		21 760
9	Polish (pl) Walter Payton		16 726
10	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		8 139

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) Walter Payton		19 609
2	German (de) Walter Payton		211
3	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		202
4	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		133
5	Italian (it) Walter Payton		109
6	French (fr) Walter Payton		105
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		62
8	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		46
9	Simple English (simple) Walter Payton		40
10	Chinese (zh) 沃尔特·佩顿		38

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Walter Payton		817
2	German (de) Walter Payton		44
3	Italian (it) Walter Payton		41
4	French (fr) Walter Payton		40
5	Simple English (simple) Walter Payton		19
6	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		18
7	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		15
8	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		15
9	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		8

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) ولتر بايتون		1
2	English (en) Walter Payton		1
3	German (de) Walter Payton		0
4	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		0
5	French (fr) Walter Payton		0
6	Armenian (hy) Ուոլթեր Փեյթոն		0
7	Italian (it) Walter Payton		0
8	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		0
9	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		0
10	Polish (pl) Walter Payton		0

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

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