Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

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This page documents an English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.

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If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.

See also

Wikipedia's principles

Five pillars	Simplified ruleset	List of policies	Jimbo's statement	Wikimedia principles

Statement of our principles	Synopsis of our conventions	Wikipedia's policy pages	Historic principles	Common to all projects

v • d • e Key Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Overview	Policies and guidelines · List of policies · List of guidelines

Project-wide principles	What Wikipedia is not · Editing policy · Consensus · Dispute resolution · Ignore all rules

Article standards policies	Neutral point of view · Verifiability · No original research · Biographies of living persons · Article titles · Deletion

Behavioral policies	Civility · Edit warring · No personal attacks · No legal threats · Ownership of articles · Sock-puppetry

Behavioral guidelines	Assume good faith · Etiquette · Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point · Please do not bite the newcomers · Gaming the system

Classification guidelines	Categories, lists, and navigation templates · Lists · Categorization · Template namespace

Content guidelines	Conflict of interest · Do not include copies of primary sources · Disambiguation · Do not create hoaxes · Notability · Patent nonsense · Identifying reliable sources

Editing guidelines	Be bold · Linking · Edit summary · Hatnotes · Signatures · Talk page guidelines · User page

Style conventions	Article size · Manual of Style

Categories: Wikipedia basic information | Wikipedia policy | Wikipedia policy | Wikipedia process discussions | Wikipedia policy��Ignore all rules

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