Did Wikipedia remove the word "occupation" from the Umm az-Zinat article?

Yes. "occupation" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Umm az-Zinat article stop using the word "occupation"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2010. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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Umm az-Zinat

The word “occupation” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.

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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “occupation” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.

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The opening as it read in 2010

Umm az Zinat or Umm al-Zinat ( , Umm ez Zînât ) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa .¹ It was located 20.5 km southeast of Haifa . At the time of the 1931 census , Umm az Zinat had 209 occupied houses and a population of 1020 Muslims and 9 Christians. In 1945, the village had a population of 1,470. Umm al-Zinat had an elementary school for boys which was founded by the Ottomans in 1888.² Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas .³

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Today

“occupation” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.

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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

palestinian arab village in the district of haifa

Now

palestinian arab village in the haifa subdistrict

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