Case file
1517 Hebron attacks
The 1517 Hebron attacks targeted the city's Jewish population during the Ottoman-Mamluk war. Through October 2023 the opening said the massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred as pogrom. Today the opening calls it only the attacks, though massacre survives six times in the body. A reader today learns Hebron's Jews were attacked, not that the event was named a massacre or a pogrom.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6.
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The opening as it read in 2015
1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the 1513-17 Ottoman–Mamluk War , when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Palestine .1 The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred as pogrom. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict .2
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Today
“massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6. Read the current article and compare.
| 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
- “massacre” now appears 2× under See also, 67% of the way down the article
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