User:HouseBlaster/A creepy history

Here on Wikipedia, we dislike institution creep. There is widespread consensus that overly complex and bureaucratic rules and regulations are bad for the project. Despite this, we have a very large amount of policy creep. Currently, there are about policies and over 200 guidelines on Wikipedia. I am going to attempt what may be a fool's errand: on this page, I will catalog each policy and guideline, along with their origins. Hopefully, this will allow us to understand the scope of our bureaucratic problem. Help is welcome: if you happen to know of a policy or guideline not listed here or the location of discussion where a rule achieved consensus, please go ahead and add it!