No, rule change was 2 days ago : https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian-io/utopian-rules-update-8-dropped-crowdin-support-english-only-and-more
He wrote this yesterday, hence he wrote an article that was not in accordance with the rules when publishing his contribution.
That's incorrect howo. The rules were announced 2 days ago, but the post also states that they only went live at 6 PM CET 02.02.2018, please, review this post and all the posts you've rejected under new rules.
Yep, realized that afterwards, consider the above comment void.