Wikindividualism

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Wikindividualism (sometimes referred to pejoratively as Wikithoritarianism) is a troping philosophy, the opposite of Wikidemocratism. It values the opinion of certain individual editors over the community, argues that there is no such thing as a community apart from individual editors, and that the collaborative wiki-process works because of rational, reasonable individual editors. It is in direct opposition to Wikidemocratism.

A Wikindividualist is a strong supporter of the principles that ATT is not a democracy, ATT is not a bureaucracy, and rules can be ignored. They believe that, in the interests of improving and maintaining the wiki, it is sometimes acceptable to act against the will of the majority of editors. They also argue that because administrators and bureaucrats are chosen by the individuals in the community, they should be trusted to exercise judgment as decision-makers; they agree with the principle that polls are evil, and claim that decisions should be made on the "strength of arguments" made by individual editors, not by majority vote or the irrational will of the collective.