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Did I find a bug?

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Adolf%20Hitler...

It's showing "Bill Gates" and "Mark Zuckerberg" as the hops, but on the start page I don't see links to those.

(Apologies for the subject matter. It was the first thing I thought of, because of a Wikipedia-path-finding game I had heard of before.)

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It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427

Thanks! Makes me wonder why those links were in there in the first place...

That's an excellent question - I'd speculate that they were perhaps mentioned in the passage beginning,

  ...Further, Haffner claims that other than Alexander the Great, Hitler had a more significant impact than any other comparable historical figure...

However, I wasn't able to find out for sure with a quick browse through the page history.

This is incorrect, that's not the reason they are linked. It is using the category box at the bottom of the page, and both Hitler and Gates were voted 'Times Person of the Year' at some point.

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