- The Three Laws of WP:IAR
Wikipedia's admins really only have a highly restricted set of moral rights and obligations, which flow logically from the Five pillars. With apologies to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, here they are, in descending order of importance:
- An admin may not injure another Wikipedian or, through inaction, allow another Wikipedian (or other human being) to come to harm.[1][2]
- An admin must protect the neutrality and the verifiability of the mainspace content of the encyclopedia, except where such would conflict with the First Law.
- An admin must recognize and respect the principle that all Wikipedians are inherently endowed with individual liberty, as long as their exercise of free will does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
- There is no Fourth Law. All else is Hivethink.
- ^ This subsumes relevant policies such as WP:NPA and portions of WP:BLP, as well as aspects of economic harm covered by WP:COPYVIO.
- ^ This applies to behavior on Wikipedia, and Wikipedia-related behavior off Wikipedia. It covers such behaviors as off-wiki harassment, non-consensual divulging of personal information as a breach of the wish for Privacy implicit in the selection and use of an anonymous username, etc.
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