That time was also when people could just add useful information to articles without some self-declared gatekeeper/“curator” removing everything they cannot grasp or simply deem uninteresting again.
As an example, there is an American author B.B.Alston whose popular books for children were translated into dozen languages.
He has a page on Polish Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._Alston
But my attempts to make him a page on English Wikipedia keep getting rejected -- failed to establish notability. The fact that he won some awards and kids read his stories on the other side of the planet is apparently not good enough for Wikipedia.
Looks like your drafts didn't have much in the way of sources. Someone else did a complete rewrite in September with additional sources to establish notability.