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Israel–Palestine

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

1 factual question out of 2 contradicts across languages. 1 question out of 2 has a compatible detail difference.

Something to inspect — not a judgment of bias or bad faith.

Overview

Use this briefing to choose what to inspect. The tabs contain the underlying comparisons.

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Rewrite scan
No candidate window confirmed

L1 ran on this article and exact checking did not confirm a durable rewrite. This does not mean the article never changed.

Wording
wording barely shifted

Which words grew or shrank is listed under Vocabulary.

Footnotes
84 sites grew · 49 shrank

Different websites cited: 131 → 135. We do not rate those sites. See Citations.

Basic facts across languages
1 contradiction · 1 compatible difference

2 configured questions checked in more than one language. See Facts.

How openings sound
2 clear differences

Compared around the rewrite window. See Framing.

Did editors fight over it?

How much did editors fight over it?
lots of edit fighting

Editors spent a lot of energy undoing each other’s work (lots of reverts). A loud fight does not prove anyone is biased. About 9,420 recorded revisions in the measure.

Who wrote today’s text?

Half of the wording still on the page is about 1.9 years old or newer. 70.1% was written in the last 3 years. The ten most active accounts wrote 53.1% of what is there now (authorship is more spread out; 480 different accounts overall). Snapshot data on this page runs through 2026-01-01.This is background only — a small group of writers is common on specialist pages.

Available evidence: Rewrite (no candidate found), Vocabulary, Citations, Framing, Facts, Versions.

No candidate rewrite window was confirmed

The exact L1 check ran, but no candidate showed the required durable-spine drop. This is a completed negative result for that detector, not a claim that the article never changed.

Candidates and exact outcomes

The detector scored 23 interval rows and sent 2 candidate windows to exact checking: 0 confirmed, 2 rejected. A candidate window can span multiple interval rows, so rows marked as candidates do not equal the rewrite episode count.

Persistence-weighted changeThe share of wording lost, weighted so text that survived more snapshots counts more. by interval

Each row reports established wording lost, standing wording gained, and paired change as a replacement lead. The bar shows loss for continuity with earlier reports. Below-floor anomalies remain descriptive evidence but cannot receive exact confirmation. A coverage gap is shown descriptively but excluded from detector decisions. Candidate-window labels report the exact revision-level decision for the broader window containing that interval.

How the detector reached this state

  1. 1 · Coarse scanA snapshot comparison that finds candidate windows for closer inspection.Candidate signal foundThe coarse scan found a deletion-heavy window worth exact checking.
  2. 2 · Interval scoring23 intervals scoredThe bars below show persistence-weighted wording loss for each interval.
  3. 3 · Exact checkA revision-level test of whether a candidate window's durable spine collapsed.Candidates rejectedRevision-level checking did not find the required durable replacement.
  • 2004-01-01Loss 88.9%3,671 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2005-01-01Loss 78.8%4,217 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2006-01-01Loss 15.0%616 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2007-01-01Loss 56.0%4,331 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2008-01-01Loss 32.7%3,254 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2009-01-01Loss 39.9%10,026 removed · 0 added PWRRejected candidate window: 2008-01-01 → 2011-01-01
  • 2010-01-01Loss 25.2%9,749 removed · 0 added PWRRejected candidate window: 2008-01-01 → 2011-01-01
  • 2011-01-01Loss 24.8%12,787 removed · 0 added PWRRejected candidate window: 2008-01-01 → 2011-01-01
  • 2012-01-01Loss 4.6%3,090 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2013-01-01Loss 10.9%10,179 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2014-01-01Loss 3.0%3,644 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2015-01-01Loss 10.8%16,938 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2016-01-01Loss 1.0%1,877 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2017-01-01Loss 6.0%13,481 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2018-01-01Loss 1.9%4,727 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2019-01-01Loss 1.5%4,379 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2020-01-01Loss 0.4%1,352 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2021-01-01Loss 1.1%4,051 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2022-01-01Loss 0.8%3,239 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2023-01-01Loss 16.3%74,965 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2024-01-01Loss 13.8%60,080 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
  • 2025-01-01Loss 37.6%163,585 removed · 0 added PWRRejected candidate window: 2024-01-01 → 2025-01-01
  • 2026-01-01Loss 2.5%8,578 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed

Exact candidate decisions

Every coarse lead and its revision-level decision, including rejected candidates. RedlinesA before-and-after view showing wording removed and added. compare the full candidate window.

Candidate windowExact outcomeCoarse signal
2008-01-01 → 2011-01-01Redline unavailableRejected: 0.0% durable-spine drop, below the required 20.0%Exact pair: 2008-01-01T02:12:17Z → 2008-01-01T07:56:25Zcoarse interval · 40% persistence-weighted loss · 32,562 PWR massThe absolute persistence-weighted amount of text lost.
2024-01-01 → 2025-01-01View redlineRejected: 0.0% durable-spine drop, below the required 20.0%Exact pair: 2024-01-01T05:44:57Z → 2024-01-01T06:49:33Zcoarse interval · 38% persistence-weighted loss · 163,585 PWR massThe absolute persistence-weighted amount of text lost.
Confirmed event
Event 1 of 3

Which words grew or shrank?

Words that became more common or less common between the compared versions. Handy for noticing a shift in topic or tone — not a score of bias.

Comparing 2003-12-11 -> 2003-12-12 (around L1 candidate date 2003-01-01; exact checking did not confirm a durable rewrite). Rough word count: 2,174 → 1,731. Overall: wording shifted a little.

Used more afterward

  • zionists0 → 6
  • main1 → 15
  • movement0 → 3
  • article2 → 14
  • occupied2 → 6
  • zionist2 → 6
  • broke1 → 3
  • carried1 → 3
  • following1 → 3
  • june1 → 3
  • massacre1 → 3
  • question1 → 3

Used less afterward

  • often4 → 0
  • civilians3 → 0
  • favor3 → 0
  • fedayeen3 → 0
  • full3 → 0
  • homes3 → 0
  • immigrants3 → 0
  • never3 → 0
  • provisional3 → 0
  • sometimes3 → 0
  • themselves3 → 0
  • usa3 → 0

These are the standout words, not a full dictionary of the article. Boring markup words are filtered out. Treat this as a hint, not a conclusion.

How the footnotes changed

How the article's own footnotes changed across the rewrite: which websites and books were cited more or less. We only show the mix — we do not rate sources as good or bad.

Looking at 2023-01-01 → 2026-01-01 (across the L1 pivot ~2024-01-01): 84 websites were cited more (or newly), 49 less (or dropped). Number of footnotes: 350 → 490. Different websites: 131 → 135.

Mix of citation types: web 47%, news 34%, book 15%, journal 3%, report 0% → news 35%, book 34%, web 24%, journal 6%, report 1%.

cited more oftenbefore → after
books.google.com16 → 78
haaretz.com13 → 29
timesofisrael.com3 → 18
theguardian.com6 → 18
reuters.com3 → 14
aljazeera.com5 → 15
hrw.org3 → 13
amnesty.org3 → 12
nytimes.com4 → 12
btselem.org3 → 10
bbc.com0 → 6
apnews.com0 → 6
cited less oftenbefore → after
mfa.gov.il22 → 2
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu8 → 2
jcpa.org5 → 1
articles.chicagotribune.com4 → 0
assembly-weu.org2 → 0
ue.eu.int2 → 0
polisci.columbia.edu2 → 0
wais.stanford.edu2 → 0
unhcr.org2 → 0
divinity.duke.edu2 → 0
jewishfederations.org2 → 0
independent.co.uk4 → 2

Counted from the article’s own footnotes. We list domains only — we do not call any source trustworthy or untrustworthy.

Confirmed event
Event 1 of 4

Cross-language lead comparison

How the opening of the article presents the topic in different languages. Disagreement is a reason to read carefully, not a final answer.

Insufficient matched historical content.

Compared matched historical revisions around the confirmed rewrite from 2002-07-01 to 2005-01-01.

Languages compared: en.

Version receipts: en: en before / en after

No comparison result is available for this run.

Confirmed event
Event 1 of 4

Do the languages agree on basic facts?

Simple factual questions checked in several languages. Editions may agree, differ, contradict, or not say enough to tell. That is not a claim about who is right.

On the latest check, 2 questions produced: 0 contradict · 1 compatible difference · 0 agree · 1 not enough said.

question2002-07-24
When is the conflict said to have begun?differ
Only English gives a specific year (1973); all other editions have no stated start date, so no contradiction, just differing detail.
What are the core disputed issues the article lists (borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements)?not enough said
No edition provides a clear list of core disputed issues; English only mentions settlements, others state nothing.

These checks are starting points for a reader. They do not decide who is right.

Versions we used

These are the exact public Wikipedia versions behind the checks on this page. Open any link to read the original. Wikidata item: Q151622.

languagecomparison pointarticle titleversionwhentext used (chars)
enbeforeIsraeli–Palestinian conflictopen version 12399680802024-08-12T19:05:51Z3,000
enafterIsraeli–Palestinian conflictopen version 12399689742024-08-12T19:13:55Z3,000
arbeforeالقضية الفلسطينيةopen version 675839362024-08-10T10:13:16Z1,691
arafterالقضية الفلسطينيةopen version 676109582024-08-14T17:29:32Z1,691
jabeforeパレスチナ問題open version 1013041802024-07-31T08:36:14Z1,166
jaafterパレスチナ問題open version 1018808642024-09-17T16:46:42Z1,166
orbeforeଇସ୍ରାଏଲ-ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ ବିବାଦopen version 5395022024-05-07T06:53:02Z3,000
orafterଇସ୍ରାଏଲ-ପାଲେଷ୍ଟାଇନ ବିବାଦopen version 5583352024-12-24T02:02:04Z3,000