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If the rules prevent you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia's quality, ignore them.

• The Snowball clause: if an issue doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting an unexpected outcome from a certain process, then there is no need to run it through that process.

• "IAR is policy, always has been" (edit summary by Jimbo Wales, August 19, 2006)

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