Fix dead style guide and docs template links in the contributing guides - #1997
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The style guide link pointed at styles/guide.md, which does not exist. The docs template link pointed at template.md, which does not exist anywhere in the repository. Both returned 404. Style guide now points at the live page; the template reference is removed rather than repointed, since there is no template to point to. Both fixes applied to CONTRIBUTING.md and site/contribute/Contributing_Guide.md, which carried identical broken links.
The clone URL uses YOUR-USERNAME as a placeholder and 404s if pasted verbatim, which is what a first-time contributor will do.
Linked ./tweets.md, which does not exist in the repository. Folded the guidance into the existing paragraph instead.
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Summary
Both links in the "Style Guides" and "ZecHub Wiki" sections of the contributing guides return 404. This fixes them in both copies.
The two dead links
styles/guide.mdsite/contribute/Contributing_Guide.md:37,CONTRIBUTING.md:30styles/directory existsblob/main/template.mdsite/contribute/Contributing_Guide.md:79,CONTRIBUTING.md:51template.mdexists anywhere in the repoWhat changed
Contributing_Guide.mdalready used this URL further down the same file, so this makes the two references consistent.CONTRIBUTING.mduses a repo-relative path tosite/contribute/Style_Guide.md, since it renders on GitHub rather than on the wiki.newsletter/newslettertemplate.mdand a Hackathon issue template, neither of which is what the sentence means. Pointing at an approximate substitute would be worse than removing it. If a template does exist somewhere I missed, say so and I'll restore the link.Also included
site/contribute/ZecWeekly_Newsletter.md— the clone command usesYOUR-USERNAMEas a placeholder and 404s if pasted verbatim. Added one clarifying line.site/contribute/Style_Guide.md— links a "tweets style guide" at./tweets.md, which does not exist. Folded the guidance into the existing paragraph. This is a separate commit; happy to drop it if you'd rather keep this PR to the two links.Not included
18 locales (
ak ar de ee es fr hi ig it ja ko pt ru sw tr uk yo zh) carry the same two dead links in their translated copies undertranslations/. I've left them alone — those are pipeline-generated andtranslation/detect-staleness.mjscompares against git history, so hand-editing them would fight the tooling. Happy to open a follow-up if you'd prefer them fixed directly.Verification
Confirmed via
git ls-filesand a full-tree search that nostyles/directory,template.md, ortweets.mdexists in the repository. Destination page loaded in a browser.