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The Believer (2001 film)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 2001 film written by henry bean and mark jacobson”. Today it says “a 2001 american drama film written and directed by henry bean in his feature directorial debut”.
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.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Ryan Gosling stars as the title character. Summer Phoenix , Theresa Russell , and Billy Zane are also featured. The story was inspired by the life of Daniel Burros .1

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 17275257.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 2001 film written by henry bean and mark jacobson”. Today it says “a 2001 american drama film written and directed by henry bean in his feature directorial debut”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2005, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

a 2001 film written by henry bean and mark jacobson

Now

a 2001 american drama film written and directed by henry bean in his feature directorial debut

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