Wikipedia:Ignore all rules If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. See also Essays on this subject: Focus on improvements, not rules Ignoring all rules – a beginner's guide Understanding IAR What "Ignore all rules" means Alternative versions Other topics: Snowball clause Avoid instruction creep Expectations and norms of the Wikipedia community Reasonability Rule The rules are principles Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy Letter and spirit of the law Quotations related to Rules at Wikiquote Wikipedia key policies and guidelines Overview Five pillars Policies and guidelines List of policies and guidelines List of policies List of guidelines Project-wide principles Consensus Dispute resolution Editing policy Ignore all rules What Wikipedia is not Wikipedia is not a dictionary Core content policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability Other content policies Article titles Autobiography Biographies of living persons Image use Content guidelines Citing sources Don't create hoaxes Do not include copies of primary sources External links Fringe theories Identifying reliable sources Notability Patent nonsense Behavioural policies Child protection Civility Courtesy vanishing Edit warring Harassment No legal threats No personal attacks Ownership of content Sock puppetry Behavioural guidelines 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 Editing guidelines Article size Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Set index articles Signatures Subpages Talk page guidelines User pages Vandalism WikiProjects Style conventions Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Understandability Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists Classification guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace Deletion policies Attack page Criteria for speedy deletion Deletion policy Oversight Proposed deletion Proposed deletion of BLP Proposed deletion (books) Revision deletion Wikimedia Foundation List of policies Licensing and copyright Privacy policy Values Book Category: Policies / Guidelines
