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 Please review the [guidelines for contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) to this repository.
 
 - [ ] I'm making a big change or adding functionality so I've already opened an issue proposing the change to other contributors, so I got feedback on the idea before took the time to write precious code
-- [ ] Check that your change/fix has corresponding unit tests
+- [ ] Check that your change/fix has corresponding unit tests (if applicable)
+- [ ] Squash commits so it looks sane
 - [ ] Verify that the test works by running `npm test` and test linting by `npm run lint`