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Mav wrote:
>"[[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|Wikipedia policy]] has evolved over time 
>and continues to evolve as the project matures. Policy changes must be agreed 
>to by consensus however.
...
>PS I've heard several people chim in that "Ignore all rules" is a policy. 
>That's plain wrong; it is just a rule to consider. See: 
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines


I disagree entirely.  My understanding of it was as follows: NPOV is a policy.  Everything else is a suggestion, though some of them are more firmly suggested than others, and many of them have quite solid reasoning behind them.

kq