Walter van Kalken wrote:
It doesn't happen many times but I kinda agree with node on this issue. Never before has it been made an issue that people from another languagewikipedia should be informed when a new languagewikipedia from a related language is being requested. Never in the two years that I have been on wikimediaprojects has it been an issue.
It has never been an issue because I have never before seen a case in which someone deliberately rigged a poll by not including relevant people in the announcement.
--Jimbo