Shoreshthe drift report · all case files
Case file

Abil al-Qamh

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian arab village located to mi north of safad and to mi south of the lebanese-israeli border”. Today it says “palestinian village located near the lebanese border north of safad”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian arab village located to mi north of safad and to mi south of the lebanese-israeli border”. Today it says “palestinian village located near the lebanese border north of safad”.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since. Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now. 1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020

Abil al-Qamh ( ) was a Palestinian village located near the Lebanese border north of Safad .1 It was depopulated in 1948. It was located at the site of the biblical city of Abel-beth-maachah . Also gives causes of depopulation.

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 942712918.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian arab village located to mi north of safad and to mi south of the lebanese-israeli border”. Today it says “palestinian village located near the lebanese border north of safad”. Read the current article and compare.
201020152020Oct '232025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2025.

Then

palestinian arab village located to mi north of safad and to mi south of the lebanese-israeli border

Now

palestinian village located near the lebanese border north of safad

Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.

← back to the drift report