Islamic Party of Britain: what Wikipedia removed
The Islamic Party of Britain was a UK political party active from 1989 to 2006. Through 2015 the opening said, “The IPB was Islamist, opposed to both capitalism and communism.” Today the opening says only that it “was opposed to both capitalism and communism,” the word Islamist surviving twice elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns what the party opposed and does not learn that Wikipedia’s own text once described the party itself as Islamist.
The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The identical sentence calling the party Islamist, the source of the dropped word in the current opening.
- An earlier short description of founder David Musa Pidcock as ‘a convert to Islam’ is now a fuller biography in the current opening, no loss of fact.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16353074):
The Islamic Party of Britain was formed in 1989 . They describe their founding purpose to have been to encourage public debate about the Islamic alternative way of life to the failed ideologies of capitalism and communism . The party is led by their founder David Musa Pidcock (a convert to Islam). They have had no electoral success thus far. They publish a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense .
2025 (revision 1287220232):
Political party in the United Kingdom The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was opposed to both capitalism and communism . David Musa Pidcock ( 1942 - December 5th 2021 ), a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia , founded and led the party. The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense . The party entered the 1992 general election , standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford , a city with a large Muslim minority, and one in a London constituency, Streatham . ^ Dabrowska, Karen (…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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