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by Beltalowda 1263 days ago
I think they're referring to the length of the articles, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

The Dutch and German are a lot longer than the quite short English version. But ... that's just a matter of organisation: in the English the editors chose to make separate "Nord stream {1,2}" articles, in other languages they folded it in one article. On the German one in particular it's just two huge sections.

In short, it's fishy in the same way that bread tastes like fish: not at all.

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I should have checked just before posting.

One month ago, they were no english version available from the french page on the article, only a 3 lines 'simplified english' version were linked.

I have absolutely no idea whether it applied to that case, too, but I've found that Wikipedia's language mapping sometimes breaks down when there's no easy 1:1 mapping between articles in differing languages.