When did the Ghabat Kafr Sur article stop using the word ""?

The word appeared 0 times in the opening at its peak in 2005. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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Ghabat Kafr Sur

Q: Did Wikipedia remove the word "" from the Ghabat Kafr Sur article?

Yes. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it "palestinian arab village in the district of tulkarm". Today it says "palestinian village in the tulkarm subdistrict of mandatory palestine". We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2015 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian arab village in the district of tulkarm”. Today it says “palestinian village in the tulkarm subdistrict of mandatory palestine”.

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 in the district of tulkarm”. Today it says “palestinian village in the tulkarm subdistrict of mandatory palestine”.

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The opening as it read in 2015

Ghabat Kafr Sur was a mixed Palestinian Arab and Jewish village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine .¹ It was located 16 km southwest of Tulkarm . In 1945, the village had a population of 1,130, with 390 of them Jewish. The village lands totaled 19,666 dunams , of which 4,506 were privately owned by Arabs and 10,384 by Jews.²

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Today

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian arab village in the district of tulkarm”. Today it says “palestinian village in the tulkarm subdistrict of mandatory palestine”. Read the current article and compare.

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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

palestinian arab village in the district of tulkarm

Now

palestinian village in the tulkarm subdistrict of mandatory palestine

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