On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Ignore all rules regularly fills up with useless encrustations of rubbish and needs emptying out. You too can help with this. The only wording you need is that it's Wikipedia policy and it goes something like "If the rules stop you improving Wikipedia, ignore them." Just toss all the rest out.
This fails utterly. The usual method of abuse is for someone to say "that doesn't count as improving Wikipedia". Usually this means someone claims that 1) some other rule defines what it means to improve Wikipedia (at which point IAR becomes useless, of course), or 2) external considerations like not harming BLP subjects don't "improve Wikipedia" since they don't help readers of Wikipedia articles.