Cant remember how I found this, but it’s been on my reading list for a while. There are always questions about wikipedia’s reliability, and now this, raises even more questions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules

Just encase you didn’t understand what its trying to say, you can even listen to this wiki policy! There is actually a wiki page which attempts to explain exactly what the rule IAR means. In effect, its also known as common sense!

In fact there are no longer any "rules" on wiki, just a set of policies, and in essence, shouldn’t it be called "Ignore All Policies"? It itself, it is called a policy.

Maybe I’m just being picky, but I like wiki, and maybe this just proves the fact that wiki is user generated. Rather than making policies that mean you never need to ignore them to do what you need.

This makes me torn between the two sets of people who have feelings about wiki. Those that use it every day for information and rely it on being correct, and those that hate it to the ends of the earth, and tell people not to touch it with a barge pole.

Despite this, I think I will still be the first set of people. I mean although it CAN be edited by anyone, it is often edited back rather quickly if its seen to be wrong. Anyway, most of the time it provides some information about whatever. I have a Firefox plugin which will display the relevant wiki page for my google searches rather than displaying adverts. This has lead to a real appreciation for wiki.