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.
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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.
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