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I have experienced several of these kinds of faulty message. Therefore I couldn't publish the translation.

Thanks for the feedback, @Meursault2004.

There are several common reasons that may prevent publish:

• Unmodified contents. Publishing is prevented when the initial machine translation is not edited enough based in certain limits. If your translation does not consist mostly (99% or more) of just machine translation or have more than 50 paragraphs with more than 85% of unmodified contents, you should be able to publish. For some languages such as Indonesian, Telugu and Assamese, the threshold for the overall translation has been adjusted to 70% instead of 99%.
• Community edit filters. Each community can define a set of automatic edit filters. These apply to all contents created on that specific wiki, including those created with Content Translation. These filters are based on rules defined by editors of a particular Wikipedia. They are defined to prevent vandalism, but they may result in some false positives and prevent valid contributions by accident. You can report issues with edit filters in the corresponding discussion forums of the community. Similarly, if your user is blocked for creating new articles, you won't be allowed to do so either using Content Translation.
• Additional community limitations. Some communities like English Wikipedia have limited the publication of articles with Content translation to those users with more than 500 edits on English Wikipedia. You can find more details about this restriction and some alternatives you can consider.
• Bugs in Content translation. The tool can fail to publish for different reasons. Given the diversity of wiki contents, some issues could happen when processing a particular type of content. Maybe some of the different software components the tool integrates has changed or is unavailable, and breaks some part of the process.

We can only fix an issue if we understand where it is coming from. For that investigation it is very useful to know the article and languages you were trying to translate, the machine translation service used, any warning or error messages shown by the tool (including those shown in the Javascript console), and any other relevant aspect of your system.

Thanks!

Hi User:Pginer-WMF

I have found out the problem. If an article already exists in the target wiki, then I get this message, even if I have translated the whole article in the source wiki. I can't unfortunately solve it by giving the translation in the target wiki another title.

Perhaps the existing article should be erased first. But that is not always easy nor possible for obvious reason.

Thanks!

When there is an existing article you get a warning but you should be able to publish and overwrite the contents.

One option that you may consider is to publish the translation under your user namespace instead. From there you can later copy and merge with the existing contents. Next to the publish button you'll find the publish options where you can select the "personal draft" option.