José Bové: what Wikipedia removed
José Bové is a French farmer, labor leader and alter-globalization activist who later served in the European Parliament. In 2005 the opening said that in 2004 Bové “announced that he would join the People’s Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel), a Marxist-Leninist group which is on the European Union’s list of terrorist groups, blamed for attacks totalling over 800 deaths.” Today the opening says nothing about this, though the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that Bové joined a group the EU designated as terrorist, linked to over 800 deaths.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| occupation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 statement that Bové joined a group on the EU’s list of terrorist organizations, blamed for over 800 deaths, is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 15964753):
File:JoseBove.jpg José Bové (born June 11 , 1953 ) is a French farmer , anarcho-syndicalist , member of the anti-globalisation movement , and spokesperson for Via Campesina . Bové is the son of two agricultural chemists. He was born in Bordeaux , but raised in many different places, both inside and outside France , including Berkeley, California in the United States . His father Joseph , originally from Luxembourg , became a French citizen as he took on the role of regional director of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences Research ( Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique or INRA ) and member of the French Academy of Sciences . His mother is a professor of natural sciences. …
2025 (revision 1289367677):
French farmer, politician and syndicalist activist (born 1953) Joseph ” José ” Bové (born 11 June 1953) is a French farmer, labor leader and alter-globalization activist, and spokesman for Via Campesina . He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election . He served in the European Parliament as a member of the European Green Party in the 2009–2014 and 2014–2019 . ^ “No shocks as 12 candidates qualify for French vote” . Reuters . 2007-03-20. Archived from the original on March 23, 2007.
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