Why Can't I Be You

Why Can't I Be You? - 1987 single by The Cure. Article “Why Can't I Be You?” in Spanish Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Why Can't I Be You?”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 141 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 507 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #27072 in November 2009
• Global: #82483 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #178301 in April 2013
• Global: #501732 in January 2013

There are 7 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) Why Can't I Be You?		34.2009
2	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		28.0391
3	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		26.5532
4	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		9.9918
5	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		8.6906
6	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		5.328
7	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		1.8807

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Why Can't I Be You?" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why Can't I Be You?		277 441
2	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		27 397
3	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		11 482
4	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		6 508
5	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		2 918
6	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		930
7	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		753

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Why Can't I Be You?" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why Can't I Be You?		1 036
2	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		65
3	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		29
4	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		22
5	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		15
6	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		6
7	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		6

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

Language versions of the article "Why Can't I Be You?" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Why Can't I Be You?		75
2	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		21
3	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		16
4	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		11
5	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		10
6	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		5
7	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		3

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

Language versions of the article "Why Can't I Be You?" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Why Can't I Be You?		0
2	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		0
3	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		0
4	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		0
5	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		0
6	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		0
7	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		0

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

Language versions of the article "Why Can't I Be You?" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Why Can't I Be You?		113
2	English (en) Why Can't I Be You?		106
3	Italian (it) Why Can't I Be You?		96
4	Galician (gl) Why Can't I Be You?		81
5	Russian (ru) Why Can’t I Be You?		52
6	Dutch (nl) Why Can't I Be You?		38
7	Spanish (es) Why Can't I Be You?		21

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#	Language	Value
en	English Why Can't I Be You?
es	Spanish Why Can't I Be You?
fr	French Why Can't I Be You?
gl	Galician Why Can't I Be You?
it	Italian Why Can't I Be You?
nl	Dutch Why Can't I Be You?
ru	Russian Why Can’t I Be You?

Best Rank

Spanish: #178301 04.2013

Global: #501732 01.2013

Best Rank

Spanish: #27072 11.2009

Global: #82483 06.2016

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