Wadi Qelt: what Wikipedia removed
The 2010 article noted the wadi “was the site of a number of high profile Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israelis”. Terror: 0 anywhere in the article today.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 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 attacks that happened there, removed from a place description.
- The list of alternate names was reorganized.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2013-04-16, Gilabrand, edit summary: “photo” (see the diff)
- 2017-06-09, Poliocretes, edit summary: “copyedit, sidebar is overkill” (see the diff)
- 2013-04-12, 109.64.54.208, edit summary: “Changed Biblical name from “prat” to the more accepted “Perath"" (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 366750247):
An Olive Tree at the Wadi site. Wadi Qelt , Wadi al-Qult , Wadi el-Qult , Wadi Kelt , Wadi Qilt or Wadi Qult ( Template:Lang-ar ), Nahal Prat or Nahal Perat ( Template:Lang-he ) is a wadi ( Template:Lang-ar wādī ), nahal ( Template:Lang-he ), or valley running west to east across the Judean desert in the West Bank , originating near Jerusalem and terminating near Jericho , near the Dead Sea . It is home to a variety of fauna including hyraxes to gazelles , to the Greek Orthodox Monastery Saint George , and to the oldest Jewish synagogue in the world and has been identified with the biblical “prat” mentioned in Jeremiah 13:5. The Wadi Qelt Synagogue was built as part of a Hasmonean royal wint…
2026 (revision 1364522567):
Wadi in West Bank, Palestine St. George’s Monastery , Wadi Qelt Rock climbing in Wadi Qelt Nahal Prat stream Wadi Qelt ( Arabic : وادي القلط ; Qelt is also spelled Qilt and Kelt , sometimes with the Arabic article, el- or al-), in Hebrew Nahal Prat ( Hebrew : נחל פרת ), formerly Naḥal Faran (Pharan brook), is a valley, riverine gulch or stream ( Arabic : وادي wādī , ” wadi ”; Hebrew : נחל , “nahal”) in the West Bank , originating near Jerusalem and running into the Jordan River near Jericho , shortly before it flows into the Dead Sea . Wadi Qelt is currently the generic name used for the entire stream, but in Arabic each sections has its own name: the upper course is called Wadi Fara , th…
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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