Case file
Gail Rubin
Gail Rubin was an American photographer murdered in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre. Through October 6 2023 the opening called it 'a 1978 terrorist attack that became known as the Coastal Road massacre.' Today the opening calls it only 'a 1978 attack that became known as the Coastal Road massacre,' though terror survives six times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns she was killed by PLO members in an attack and not that Wikipedia's own opening once called that attack terrorist.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” 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 2020
During her career, she worked as both a war photographer and a nature photographer . She was killed by Palestinians in a 1978 terrorist attack that became known as the Coastal Road massacre .1
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Today
“terror” 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.
| 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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.
- “terror” now appears 2× under Death, 50% of the way down the article
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