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Merged, renamed, erased

Articles that stopped being their own article

Of the 61,944 articles we watch, 195 no longer exist under the name we recorded. They were merged into broader pages or renamed outright. A title change is its own kind of edit: it decides what a reader is looking for before a single sentence is read. We hold our own copy of the text for 195 of them.

Titles that lost a word

26 renames where a word left the title.

Occupied Palestinian territories→Palestine
title lost “occupation” we hold its text
Merged into the article named Palestine.
Blood Libel at Deir Yassin→Uri Milstein
title lost “blood libel” we hold its text
An article about a blood libel now redirects to a historian's biography.
2011 Tel Aviv truck attack→2011 Nakba Day
title lost “attack” we hold its text
A truck attack that killed one and wounded seventeen now redirects to the protest day it happened on.
Ashkelon rocket attacks→Ashkelon
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Holy Jihad Brigades→2006 Fox journalists kidnapping
title lost “jihad” we hold its text
The group's article was folded into the kidnapping it carried out.
Militant Islam→Mujahideen
title lost “militant” we hold its text
The concept article was folded into the name its adherents use for themselves.
Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative→Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
title lost “occupation” we hold its text
Arab occupation of the Palestinian region→Muslim conquest of Syria
title lost “occupation” we hold its text
Occupation left this title while it sits in Israel-related titles across the encyclopedia. The same event is now a conquest.
Killing of Alisa Flatow→Kfar Darom bus attack
title lost “killing” title gained “attack” we hold its text
2000 New York terror attack→Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale
title lost “terror”title lost “attack” we hold its text
An attack on a synagogue now redirects to the synagogue's own article.
Islamism and Islamic terrorism in the Balkans→Islamic terrorism in Europe
title lost “islamist” we hold its text
Islamism left the title in the merge.
June 2015 Monguno bombing→Boko Haram
title lost “bombing” we hold its text
January 2016 Quetta suicide bombing→Polio in Pakistan
title lost “bombing” we hold its text
November 2016 Kabul suicide bombing→List of terrorist attacks in Kabul
title lost “bombing” title gained “terror”title gained “attack” we hold its text
April 2017 Lahore suicide bombing→Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017
title lost “bombing” title gained “terror” we hold its text
2007 Parachinar bombing→Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2007
title lost “bombing” title gained “terror” we hold its text
2017 Hamburg knife attack→List of mass stabbing incidents (2010–2019)
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Manchester Victoria stabbing attack→List of mass stabbing incidents (2010–2019)
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Asasey Hotel attack→2019 timeline of the Somali Civil War
title lost “attack” we hold its text
24 July 2019 Mogadishu bombing→Abdirahman Omar Osman
title lost “bombing” we hold its text
25 July 2019 Kabul bombings→List of terrorist attacks in Kabul
title lost “bombing” title gained “terror”title gained “attack” we hold its text
Pobé Mengao attack→Pobe-Mengao Department
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Auno attack→Boko Haram insurgency
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Pemi attack→Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Ngouboua attack→Ngouboua
title lost “attack” we hold its text
Sarband police station attack→Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2023
title lost “attack” title gained “terror” we hold its text

Titles that gained a word

11 renames in the other direction, published for the same reason we publish everything else: a count that runs one way is not a measurement. Several attacks were merged into lists that carry the word terrorist.

Political status of the Palestinian territories→Status of territories occupied by Israel in 1967
title gained “occupation” we hold its text
The reverse direction: a neutral title became one naming the territories as occupied.
Abdullah Badran→Stage Club bombing
title gained “bombing” we hold its text
Koby Mandell→Murders of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran
title gained “killing” we hold its text
Hiba Daraghmeh→Afula mall bombing
title gained “bombing” we hold its text
Andalib Suleiman→2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing
title gained “bombing” we hold its text
Said Al Nasr→1980 Antwerp attack
title gained “attack” we hold its text
Haim Smadar→Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing
title gained “bombing” we hold its text
The Teacher's Bookshop→Killing of Rami Ayyad
title gained “killing” we hold its text
Gang of Barbarians→Murder of Ilan Halimi
title gained “killing” we hold its text
1 August 2016 Kabul attack→List of terrorist attacks in Kabul
title gained “terror” we hold its text
June 2017 Kabul mosque attack→List of terrorist attacks in Kabul
title gained “terror” we hold its text

The rest

158 merges and renames where the tracked words did not move. Listed in full.

Redirect targets were resolved against Wikipedia's own API on 2026-08-01. Where we hold the text, our saved copy remains readable whatever happens to the original. Data: /data.