That we are resorting to discussing multiple polls worries me; it reminds me of the circumstances which led to the English Wikipedia arbitration case 'date delinking'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ARBDATE
IMO the English Wikipedia community should be allowed to continue to review the results of their trial, and/or discuss how the next trial will occur.
I worry that the WMF strategy for pending changes is to focus entirely on English Wikipedia, making indecision within one community a 'problem' that the WMF feels it must step in an resolve.
Has the foundation considered redeploying their efforts to run pending change trials in projects other than English Wikipedia?
IMO, the foundation could look to strengthen its global policies regarding content where living people are a subject. i.e. worded more like the non-free content resolution. Then the projects _need_ to find appropriate solutions to conform to the WMF requirements, and tools like pending changes will be used if they help achieve compliance with the WMF policy.
-- John Vandenberg