Garrett wrote:
The rules against OR and POV were first established on EN Wikipedia, and other projects have since been inspired to inherit them (after all, Wikipedia was originally the "Wikipedia Textbook project" or somesuch). Many of our old policies were based on outdated forks of Wikipedia policies.
This is historically inaccoruate. NPOV rules predate all the projects, and were established by me socially as the one non-negotiable thing that unifies us all.
I don't consider that individual projects were "inspired to inherit them".
Wikipedia was never the "Wikipedia Textbook project".
--Jimbo