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