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Accountability is an underlying basis for all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Accountability means that editors should generally explain the reasoning behind their edits, especially when making questionable changes to articles. This guideline, therefore, reflects ideas underlying other guidelines and policies, and should not be seen as contradicting WP:BOLD or WP:IAR.