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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The community has developed rules and guidelines to limit abuse of editing privileges, to improve the quality of articles, to reduce conflict and to streamline and to write the encyclopedia. These policies and guidelines are important and much thought and debate goes into each one. These rules exist in order to further the encyclopedia. It's acceptable not to know or even follow every rule but deliberately ignoring the rules is problematic.