Ignore all rules

"Ignore all rules" is a rule to set rules aside. [cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-6002018.html|title=Matters of Taste|work=Jerusalem Post|author=Shapiro, Haim|date=1995-07-14|accessdate=2008-06-04] In 2001, Stephen King made "ignore all rules" the second rule of reading in his autobiographical "On Writing". [cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=134&objectid=228671|title=Stephen King: On Writing|work=New Zealand Herald|author=Reid, Graham|date=2001-11-18|accessdate=2008-06-04]

"Ignore All Rules" is a "favorite" rule of the English-language open content encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a tradition of treating rules skeptically, except for this rule. [cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20link.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin|title=Defending Wikipedia's Impolite Side|author=Cohen, Noam|work=New York Times|date=2007-08-05|accessdate=2008-06-04] The philosophy or mantra was championed by Larry Sangercite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30351112_ITM|title=Wikipedia founder rejects his 'ignore all rules' mantra in new online project: Larry Sanger launches Citizendium|work=ComputerWorld|date=2007-04-02|accessdate=2008-06-04] (a chief organizer of Wikipedia, 2001-2002), who made it the first of a set of site guidelines;cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact|title=Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer experience?|author=Schiff, Stacy|work=The New Yorker|date=2006-07-31|accessdate=2008-06-05] it continues to be disseminated by Jimmy Wales (its community founder).Fact|date=June 2008 Sanger rejected his former stance of "ignore all rules" when launching Citizendium, another free content encyclopedia of which he is editor-in-chief.

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