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The Five Pillars of Wikipedia are considered fundamental to the Wikipedia project. No one pillar is taller or shorter than the other — it is critical that each pillar have the same importance for the good of the entire project.
If one pillar was less important than another, then we would just have the "four pillars of Wikipedia" — but there are five.
Here's a list of the five pillars of Wikipedia:
Imagine if editors only focused on four of those five. What would the community become? What would happen to the project?
While it certainly is valid for an editor to focus on one pillar instead of another based on their enthusiasm and knowledge, editors should be careful to not sacrifice one column for any of the others. None of the pillars are mutually exclusive. We need them all. They are our five pillars.
