Wikinews:Ignore all rules

Summary
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikinews, ignore it.

In the main namespace
A number of the policies applied to articles are de-facto non-negotiable. In particular, all articles which are published for indexing by news aggregators, or displayed in RSS feeds, must be subjected to independent peer review.

Regarding common conventions in writing, the introduction to Strunk's The Elements of Style gives a succinct justification for breaking the rules: