Case file
Milton Rackmil
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures”. Today it says “co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures and vice-chairman of mca inc”.
Found by software in Wikipedia's own edit history. Not yet read by hand. The quoted words are Wikipedia's.
Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
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.
1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Milton R. Rackmil (February 12, 1906 – April 2, 1992) was the co-founder of Decca Records and head of Universal Pictures and Vice-Chairman of MCA Inc.
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1285751303.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures”. Today it says “co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures and vice-chairman of mca inc”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 |
|---|
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2015, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures
Now
co-founder of decca records and head of universal pictures and vice-chairman of mca inc
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.