Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.html

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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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)

Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.html

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