Re: NPOV and NOR as a local or a global policies on Wikibooks?

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I don't consider that individual projects were "inspired to inherit them".
>
> Wikipedia was never the "Wikipedia Textbook project".
>
> --Jimbo
>   

That was an honest typo.  Wikibooks was originallly at 
http://textbooks.wikipedia.com/ (a no longer valid URL, BTW) and it was 
called the "Wikipedia Textbook Project", at least based on some very 
dated pages I've seen.

Still, I would have to agree with Garrett that many of the policies on 
Wikibooks were inherited from Wikipedia... some so much that the name 
"Wikipedia" remained for as long as two years on some of the pages.  I 
don't know of any that remain like that, but it was an issue in the 
past.  And Wikibooks has things from Wikipedia like the VfD pages that 
Wikipedia no longer does.  In addition, we are debating things like fair 
use policies due in part because of inherited philosophies on that topic 
as well.

But at the same time, Wikibooks certainly has chartered an independent 
course from Wikipedia on many policies.

--Robert Horning