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+# Contribution Guidelines
+
+When contributing, please ...
+- provide a clear and concise explanation of your pull request.
+- try to make small changes, ie, make many small pull requests as opposed to a single large pull request. This allows me to check your work more quickly, thus merge more quickly.
+- try to follow the patterns I've already established.
+
+Thank you.