On 18/06/07, Eagle 101 eagle.wikien.l@gmail.com wrote:
Ignore all Rules is common sense written into policy. The concept behind it (at least to me) is that if ignoring the rules help you improve the encyclopaedia (and that is your intent when you ignored the rules), there is a decent chance that you are doing something right, even if it does not meet our policy XYZ, section 3, subsection c. How it is to be used is another matter, when ignoring the rules you probably have a decent rational behind why doing so improves the encyclopaedia, otherwise its hard to justify should someone ask. Merely shouting IAR when you don't like a particular rule is not useful. But if you ignore the rules and the net benefit is to the encyclopaedia (yes that thing we are trying to build ya know ;) ) then its likely a useful action (edit whatever). Ignore all rules is intended to be hard to pin down, to avoid codifying how to ignore all rules ;).
Let me pimp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PRO once more.
- d.