Ignore all rules creator Larry Sanger
"Ignore all rules" (IAR) is a policy in the English Wikipedia. It reads: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." [emphasis in original]. The rule was proposed by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger to encourage editors to add information without focusing excessively on formatting, though Sanger later criticized the rule's effects on the community.
The policy is expanded upon in other pages on Wikipedia, such as the essay "What 'Ignore all rules' means". It allows Wikipedia users to violate the site's rules occasionally without rejecting the entire rule system. A study in 2012 found that in "Articles for Deletion" discussions, which determine whether a Wikipedia article should be deleted, comments were given more weight when they used IAR as justification. Critics of Wikipedia have variously opined that the rule is abused in practice, or should be used more often.History
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, with few policies, the intention being that users would determine rules via consensus.: 318  "Ignore all rules" was proposed by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger on a "rules to consider page",: 318  and became one of the first formal guidelines of Wikipedia. Sanger later said that his intention was to convey that "people should not worry about getting formatting right and getting every single detail of policy under their belts before they started contributing". Having conceived of the rule as a "temporary and humorous injunction",: 318  he rejected it in his later project Citizendium as "other people were taking it seriously".The original formulation of the rule was:
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