Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

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This page documents an official English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that should normally be followed by all editors. Any edit to this page should reflect consensus. If in doubt, consider discussing changes on the talk page.

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

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Wikipedia's principles

Five pillars	Simplified ruleset	List of policies	Foundation issues	Statement of principles

Overview of our foundation	Synopsis of our conventions	Full list of official policies	Wikimedia Foundation issues	Historic beginnings

v • d • e Key Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Overview	Policies and guidelines (WP:POL) · List of policies (WP:LOP) · List of guidelines (WP:LGL)

Global principles	What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) · Consensus (WP:CON) · Dispute resolution (WP:DR) · Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)

Article standards policies	Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) · Verifiability (WP:V) · No original research (WP:NOR) · Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) · Deletion policy (WP:DEL)

Behavioral policies	Civility (WP:CIV, WP:CIVIL) · No personal attacks (WP:NPA) · No legal threats (WP:NLT · WP:LEGAL) · Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) · Three-revert rule (WP:3RR) · Sock-puppetry (WP:SOCK)

Behavioral guidelines	Assume good faith (WP:AGF) · Etiquette (WP:EQ) · Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT) · Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) · Gaming the system (WP:GAME)

Classification guidelines	Subpages (WP:SP) · Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN) · Lists (WP:L) · Categorization (WP:CAT) · Template namespace (WP:TMP)

Content guidelines	Conflict of interest (WP:COI) · Do not include copies of primary sources (WP:NPS) · Disambiguation (WP:D) · Do not create hoaxes (WP:HOAX) · Notability (WP:N) · Patent nonsense (WP:PN)

Editing guidelines	Be bold (WP:BOLD) · Build the web (WP:BTW) · Edit summary (WP:ES) · Editing policy (WP:EP) · Signatures (WP:SIG) · Talk page guidelines (WP:TALK) · User page (WP:USER)

Style conventions	Article size (WP:SIZE) · Manual of Style (WP:MOS · WP:STYLE) · Naming conventions (WP:NC)

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