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Not always, all PRs usually start as forks unless the person is part of the project and can do their work on a branch.
That's just a Githubism
Yeah, but it also makes "forking" into a more ambiguous term overall. A GitHub fork can be a clone with a working branch or an actual fork and it's not immediately obvious until you look at the code.
That's why I use the README test to see if a forked repo is an actual fork since almost no one will modify the README if their GitHub fork is actually a work branch.