diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
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+# Lines starting with '#' are comments.
+# Each line is a file pattern followed by one or more owners.
+
+# More details are here: https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
+
+# The '*' pattern is for global owners.
+# Not adding in this PR, but I'd like to try adding a global owner set with the entire team.
+# One interpretation of the GitHub docs is that global owners are added only if not removed
+# by a more local rule.
+
+# Order is important. The last matching pattern has the most precedence.
+# The folders are ordered as follows:
+
+# In each subsection folders are order first by depth, then alphabetically.
+# This should make it easy to add new rules without breaking existing ones.
+
diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
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+## Summary
+
+Describe your changes here.
+
+Fixes dotnet/docs#Issue_Number (if available)
diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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+# Code of Conduct
+
+This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant
+to clarify expected behavior in our community.
+For more information, see the [.NET Foundation Code of Conduct](https://dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct).
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Contributing
+
+Thank you for your interest in contributing to the .NET documentation!
+
+This repository contains the API Reference .NET documentation. The main repository for .NET documentation is the [.NET Docs repository](https://github.com/dotnet/docs). See the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/tree/master/Contributing.md) for information on updating .NET API reference documentation.
+We are tracking all work for this repository using [.NET Docs repository issues](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues). You can select the [Repo - dotnet-api-docs](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%3Afile_folder%3A+Repo+-+dotnet-api-docs%222) label to see issues that are scoped to this repository.
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 # .NET Docs
 
-This repo contains work-in-progress documentation for .NET. To contribute, see the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) and the [issues list](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues). 
+This repo contains documentation for the .NET API Reference. 
+
+The main repository for .NET documentation is the [.NET Docs repository](https://github.com/dotnet/docs). See the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/tree/master/Contributing.md) for information on updating .NET API reference documentation.
+We are tracking all work for this repository using [.NET Docs repository issues](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues). You can select the [Repo - dotnet-api-docs](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%3Afile_folder%3A+Repo+-+dotnet-api-docs%222) label to see issues that are scoped to this repository. You can also select the [Repo - samples](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%3Afile_folder%3A+Repo+-+samples%22) label to see issues that concern sample code.
 
-We welcome contributions to help us improve and complete the .NET docs. We anticipate that [Xamarin](http://developer.xamarin.com/api/root/classlib/), [Mono](http://docs.go-mono.com/?link=root%3a%2fclasslib) and [Unity](http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/index.html) will also use this documentation.
 
-This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant
-to clarify expected behavior in our community.
-For more information, see the [.NET Foundation Code of Conduct](https://dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct).
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