That is the case for at least some of the articles. There are also quite a few initialized projects but with nothing inside of them. And the overall file count

That is the case for at least some of the articles. There are also quite a few initialized projects but with nothing inside of them. And the overall file count comes from things like saved email templates that they have sent out, etc. Node modules, and a lot of other garbage files from Terraform, Ansible, etc.