Wikipedia scrubbed topic? Mini_ice_age (ended ~1970)...empty page, now redirects to Little_ice_age (ended ~1890). Change history, mostly empty, wayback machine mostly empty....prose statistics 9,007 Words, 32 Sections...

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[–]SoCo[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wiki page with redirect disabled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mini_ice_age&redirect=no

Wiki change history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mini_ice_age&action=history

Wayback Machine showing the page was always a redirect....but somehow was captured with a non redirect link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130901000000*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_ice_age

Using the Wiki API, you can get the page statistics...showing the prose:

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Mini_ice_age

What is prose?:

Get statistics about the prose (characters, word count, etc.) and referencing of a page.

https://xtools.readthedocs.io/en/3.6.6/api/page.html

Why does a page, for a controversial but large topic, that purportedly was always an empty redirect, have 9,007 Words and 32 Sections?...

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Wayback Machine showing the page was always a redirect....but somehow was captured with a non redirect link

Wikipedia redirects arent normal http redirects and will return the body of the redirected page at the requested url. If the way back machine crawled the original url (which it would have found recursively from the redirected page) it will record the original url as the one it requested.

Using the Wiki API, you can get the page statistics...showing the prose:

This page is identical to the one for the little ice age.

[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This page is identical to the one for the little ice age.

You're right, those word counts and sections are just from the Little ice age page.

I can't imagine there isn't a Mini ice age page....even if to clamor about it being a mistake, or trying to explain it was a regional thing that lead to controversial assumptions, which were widely reported, televised and talked about in scientific circles for decades.