Case file
The Yiddisher Boy
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links”. Today it says “a 1909 film directed by sigmund lubin”.
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Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
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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
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 623199400.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links”. 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
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2015, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links
Now
a 1909 film directed by sigmund lubin
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.