Wikipedia:Ignore all rules Wikipedia policy Short URL w.wiki/iIf a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. See alsoListen to this page (1 minute) This audio file was created from a revision of this page dated 25 September 2011 (2011-09-25), and does not reflect subsequent edits.Be bold Wikipedia's fifth pillar: Wikipedia has no firm rules Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy List of "Ignore all rules" essays and related topics Ignore all rules Letter and spirit of the law Wikipedia:Purpose Use common senseWikipedia key policies and guidelines (?) Five pillars Ignore all rules Content (?)P Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles G 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 Conduct (?)P Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure G 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 Talk page guidelines Signatures Deletion (?)P Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion Enforcement (?)P Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection Editing (?)P Editing policy G Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability Style Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists Classification Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace Project content (?)G Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages WMF (?)P Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy List of all policies and guidelines P: List of policies G: List of guidelines Summaries of values and principles
