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Wikipedia policy on Wikipedia not having firm rules
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If a
rule
prevents you from improving or maintaining
Wikipedia
,
ignore it
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Wikipedia's fifth pillar: Wikipedia has no firm rules
"Ignore all rules" essays and related topics
Ignore all rules
Letter and spirit of the law
Wikipedia key
policies and guidelines
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Five pillars
Ignore all rules
Content
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Verifiability
No original research
Neutral point of view
What Wikipedia is not
Biographies of living persons
Copyright
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Copyright violations
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Image use
Article titles
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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
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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
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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
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P
Deletion policy
Proposed deletion
Biographies
Criteria for speedy deletion
Attack page
Oversight
Revision deletion
Enforcement
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P
Administrators
Banning
Blocking
Page protection
Editing
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Editing policy
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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
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Project namespace
WikiProjects
User pages
User boxes
Shortcuts
Subpages
WMF
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Terms of Use
List of policies
Friendly space policy
Licensing and copyright
Privacy policy
List of all policies and guidelines
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List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles