Case file
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing
A 2003 Palestinian suicide bombing of a crowded Jerusalem bus that killed dozens, many of them children, and was claimed by Hamas. The 2005 opening named it "The Jerusalem bus 2 massacre," a suicide bombing that "killed 23 people and wounded over 130." Today the opening drops that name entirely and calls it a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 24; the word massacre appears nowhere in the article now. A reader today learns the death toll and that Hamas claimed responsibility, and not that Wikipedia once named the attack a massacre.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included.
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The opening as it read in 2005
The Jerusalem bus 2 massacre was a suicide bombing in a crowded bus in Jerusalem , Israel on August 19 , 2003 , which killed 23 people and wounded over 130.1 Many of the victims were children.
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Today
“massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. Read the current article and compare.
| 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| massacre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| militant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2020.
Then
suicide bombing of a crowded public bus in the shmuel hanavi quarter in jerusalem
Now
suicide bombing of a crowded public bus
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