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The Yiddisher Boy
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “redirect from a page that has been moved”. Today it says “a 1909 film directed by sigmund lubin”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
The Yiddishers From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.1
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “redirect from a page that has been moved”. Today it says “a 1909 film directed by sigmund lubin”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
redirect from a page that has been moved
Now
a 1909 film directed by sigmund lubin
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