What we saw on WP-FR was the exact opposite: a violently polarising question, with half a dozen dedicated activists with far-Right leanings misleading a large number of badly-informed voters, with an equal amount rejecting the proposition outright.
These activists claim that a skin-of-the-teeth majority, obtained by artistically carving the electorate, is a mandate to embark the whole of WP-FR into a radical, damaging course.
This is a sort of Brexit.
This is not how Wikipedia works.