Block cipher
Language:en
Block cipher
in English Wikipedia
Quality Flaws:
-15.42 points
Description
Overall quality score: 61.68 out of 100 for the article “Block cipher” on English Wikipedia. Its overall quantitative profile is good, with room for further development. The considered article was last modified on 25 October 2026 at 22:31:30 UTC.
Text length, major heading count and image count form a strong part of the assessment: all three are rated outstanding. Each of these measures meets or exceeds the Featured Article benchmark.
The article has relatively few citations, both in total and in relation to its length. Both sourcing measures are rated below average.
The considered version of the Wikipedia article also contains quality-flaw templates, identified in English as “Multiple issues”, “More citations needed”, “Expand section” and “Empty section”. These editorial notices flag issues that need attention. The detected flaws reduce the overall quality score by 15.42 points.
Characteristics:
Presented points are based on comparison of characteristics of the article with a median of each relevant characteristics of the Featured Articles in English Wikipedia. The table below shows those medians:
| Characteristics | Median* |
|---|---|
| Length (bytes) | 51162 |
| Number of references | 125 |
| Number of images (at least 5000 px2) | 7 |
| Headers (1st & 2nd level) | 14 |
| References / Length | 0.0023585 |
