Wikipedia's first sentence called it “singer and composer from lebanon”. Today it says “lebanese singer and composer”.
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 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Halim el-Roumi ( Arabic : حليم الرومي ) (July 1919 – 1983) was a Lebanese singer and composer. Born in Tyre, Lebanon to Lebanese parents , he began his amateur artistic career in 1935, when he was in Haifa, Palestine. Later, as a radio chief first in Haifa and then in Lebanon, he discovered the singer Fairuz . He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator of her stage name. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise. He is famous for composing the poem La Volonté de vivre (إرادة الحياة) by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi for the Arab singer Souad Mohamed. He is the father of Majida Al Roumi . (in French) Ali Ouertani, "La poésie chantée de Chebbi", La Presse de Tunisie , 1 March 2009
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1295772021.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Musical artist Halim el-Roumi ( حليم الرومي ) (July 1919 – 1983) was a singer and composer from Lebanon. Born in Lebanon to Lebanese parents, he began his amateur artistic career in 1935. Later, as a radio chief in the Near East (Mahattat Ach-Charq Al Adna), he discovered the singer Fairuz . He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator of her stage name. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise. He is famous for composing the poem La Volonté de vivre (إرادة الحياة) by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi for the Arab singer Souad Mohamed. He was the father of Majida El Roumi .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 952926560.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Musical artist Halim el-Roumi ( حليم الرومي ) (July 1919 – 1983) was a singer and composer from Lebanon. He began his amateur artistic career in 1935, when he was in Haifa, Palestine.Later, as a radio chief first in Haifa and then in Lebanon, he discovered the singer Fairuz . He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator of her stage name. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise. He is famous for composing the poem La Volonté de vivre (إرادة الحياة) by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi for the Arab singer Souad Mohamed. He is the father of Majida Al Roumi .(in French) Ali Ouertani, "La poésie chantée de Chebbi", La Presse de Tunisie , 1 March 2009
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1159736266.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “singer and composer from lebanon”. Today it says “lebanese singer and composer”. Read the current article and compare.
2020
Oct '23
2025
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 since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
singer and composer from lebanon
Now
lebanese singer and composer
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.
