Walter Payton

Quality:

Walter Payton - American football running back, Pro Football Hall of Famer (1954-1999). This person is the 7653^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Walter Payton” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 7653^rd 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 1037 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Walter Payton is on the 7653^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2885 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1054 in February 2011
• Global: #7467 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8686 in February 2008
• Global: #2421 in January 2016

There are 13 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) Walter Payton		97.0823
2	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		76.0345
3	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		40.7028
4	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		38.3914
5	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		26.1287
6	Italian (it) Walter Payton		22.7859
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		15.6886
8	Ukrainian (uk) Волтер Пейтон		13.2366
9	French (fr) Walter Payton		10.6064
10	Arabic (ar) ولتر بايتون		9.134

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Payton		11 979 402
2	German (de) Walter Payton		201 975
3	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		118 555
4	French (fr) Walter Payton		80 802
5	Italian (it) Walter Payton		65 798
6	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		54 276
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		38 202
8	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		20 714
9	Polish (pl) Walter Payton		16 132
10	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		8 024

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		23 072
2	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		234
3	German (de) Walter Payton		231
4	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		228
5	Italian (it) Walter Payton		216
6	French (fr) Walter Payton		136
7	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		126
8	Simple English (simple) Walter Payton		112
9	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		79
10	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		57

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		803
2	German (de) Walter Payton		41
3	Italian (it) Walter Payton		41
4	French (fr) Walter Payton		38
5	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		28
6	Simple English (simple) Walter Payton		19
7	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		17
8	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		15
9	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Уолтер		12
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	English (en) Walter Payton		4
2	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ペイトン		1
3	Arabic (ar) ولتر بايتون		0
4	German (de) Walter Payton		0
5	Spanish (es) Walter Payton		0
6	French (fr) Walter Payton		0
7	Italian (it) Walter Payton		0
8	Norwegian (no) Walter Payton		0
9	Polish (pl) Walter Payton		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Walter Payton		0

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

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