Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

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This page documents an English Wikipedia policy.

It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.

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

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Wikipedia key policies and guidelines

Five pillars
- What Wikipedia is not
- Ignore all rules

Content

	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Image use Article titles
	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links Portal namespace

Conduct

	Civility Consensus Editing policy Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sock puppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm

Deletion

	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Books Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement

	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing

Article size Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Talk page guidelines Signatures Broad-concept article
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Understandability Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content

	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF

	List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy Values FAQ

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