How a market version is made
One editor per language, and the line they are not allowed to cross
Six language versions of this site exist, and each has one editor. They rewrite the explanation for their market and translate nothing mechanically — but clause numbers, sums, dates and register entries pass through untouched, because those are the parts a reader checks.
A comparison site that exists in several languages has a specific way of going wrong: the English version gets the careful reading, and the rest get a translation of it, drifting a little further from the documents with each hop. The arrangement here is built to stop exactly that.
What an editor changes
The explanation. An identity clause means something different to a reader in Germany than to one in Brazil — not because the clause differs, but because what is normal around it does. The editor rewrites the explanation for their market rather than translating the English one, and may add context the English version has no reason to carry.
The questions. Each language version carries the questions that market actually asks. A page that answers nothing a local reader wondered about is filler, so pages appear and disappear between languages rather than being padded out to match.
The phrasing of everything that is not evidence. Headings, the order of an argument, the examples chosen, the wording of a warning.
What an editor never changes
Clause numbers. A citation is the reader's route back to the source document, and a renumbered or paraphrased one breaks that route silently.
Sums, deadlines and caps. A withdrawal limit is the limit the operator wrote. It is not rounded, converted for convenience or described as “around” anything.
Register entries. The licence number, the holder named in the register and the domain the entry resolves under are reproduced exactly, because the whole value of the check is that a reader can repeat it.
Read dates. A figure carries the date the document was read, not the date the page was translated. Refreshing the date without re-reading the document would be the single most damaging thing anybody here could do, and it is the easiest.
The ranking order. Computed from the five checks, identical in every language.
The six versions
German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese, alongside the English base. Each has one editor responsible for the market version, and the same evidence rules apply to all of them.
Where a figure and an operator's current terms disagree, the terms win in every language at once. The correction is made against the original document and carried across, rather than patched in whichever version somebody noticed it in.
Why it is set up this way
Because the evidence is the only thing on this site worth anything. The explanations can be rewritten freely — they are an editor's craft, and a good local explanation beats a faithful translation every time. The numbers cannot, because a reader who checks one of them against the operator's document is doing the thing this site is built to invite, and a number that drifted in translation turns that invitation into a trap.
Who reads the documents in the first place is on the authors page; the checks themselves are on the methodology page.