Did Wikipedia remove the word "refugee" from the Yacoub Shaheen article?

Yes. "refugee" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 3 moments between 2020 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Yacoub Shaheen article stop using the word "refugee"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2020. 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.

How can I verify what Wikipedia's Yacoub Shaheen article used to say?

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Yacoub Shaheen

The word “refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2020. Today the opening carries none. 3 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.

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 2026-08-02. “refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3.

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The opening as it read in 2020

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Musical artist Yacoub Shaheen , born 27 february 1994 in Bethlehem , is a Palestinian Christian singer resided in the West Bank . Shaheen won the TV program Arab Idol , a program with approximately 120 million viewers in the Arab World . He became the second Palestinian to win the contest after Mohammed Assaf who grew up in a Gaza Strip refugee camp and won the Arab Idol in 2013.¹

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 963714365.

Today

“refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3. Read the current article and compare.

Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
	2020	Oct '23	2025

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2020 and 2025.

Then

palestinian christian singer resided in the west bank

Now

palestinian singer

Where the word went

It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.

“refugee” now appears 1× under Career, 50% of the way down the article

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