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How about:

marking these variant translation "languages" as ones the are only complete together with their fallbacks in their language object,
when saving messages, have a test based on this information, warning translators, when they attempt to save duplicates,
for the planned user-defined fallback language chains, avoid the necessity to specify the base language as a fallback to these lightweight ones?

If noone objects, I'll suggest it via bugzilla

Purodha, I don't think that suggestion 2 will solve the main problem above, which is that there appears to be some users on de-ch who are deliberately creating new duplicate messages in order to win the prize money in the translation rallies. Suggestion 2 seems to be an expensive way of making sure that users are informed that posting duplicates onto variant languages is discouraged, compared to posting a warning on the language portal, which most translators should see.

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