I don't understand which part you think is different. Those sites never say that pulls are combined from apps on different banks. They just aren't that specific. That's why I went to the trouble of being that specific, because I'd that most write-ups didn't clarify that. For example the first site you link just generally says "it combines pulls", then shows that although he applied for 4 cards, it was only from 2 banks, and then only says how much his credit score changed, not how many pulls he actualy got.

Then the other site talks mainly about mutiple card aplications on the same day from the same bank. Which is what i was saying.

So please be more specific if you think some information that I wrote might be wrong. I wrote a lot of things in that post, and so just saying "some of it seems to contradict" to does help us help you figure out what the real story is.

The exact specifics matter a lot. So you have to pay attention to write-ups that are very specific, and less to write-ups that are vague and general.