Wikipedia:Ignore_all

Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

The following is policy on the English Wikipedia, and according to Jimbo Wales, it "always has been." Ignore all rules was Wikipedia's first rule to consider.

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

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) · Ignore all rules (WP:IAR, WP:IGNORE)

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

Behavioral policies	Assume good faith (WP:AGF) · 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	Etiquette (WP:EQ) · Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point (WP:POINT) · Don't bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) · Don't game the system (WP:GAME)

Resolution policies	Consensus (WP:CON) · Resolving disputes (WP:DR)

Classification guidelines	Subpages (WP:SP) · Cats, lists, navboxes (WP:CLN) · Lists (WP:L) · Categories (WP:CAT) · Templates (WP:TMP)

Content guidelines	Conflict of interest (WP:COI) · Don't copy sources (WP:NPS) · Disambiguation (WP:D) · Don't create hoaxes (WP:HOAX) · Notability (WP:N) · Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (WP:PN)

Editing guidelines	Be bold (WP:BOLD) · Edit summary (WP:ES) · Sign on talk pages (WP:SIG) · Talk page guidelines (WP:TALK) · User page guidelines (WP:USER)

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

See also